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Lower Austria ((ドイツ語:Niederösterreich), ; (チェコ語:Dolní Rakousy); (スロバキア語:Dolné Rakúsko)) is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna is not officially part of Lower Austria. With a land area of 19,186 km² and a population of 1.612 million people, it is the largest state in Austria, and in terms of population second only to the federal state of Vienna. ==Geography== Situated east of Upper Austria, Lower Austria derives its name from its downriver location on the Danube River, which flows from west to east. Lower Austria has an international border, 414 km long, with the Czech Republic (mainly South Moravia) and Slovakia. The state has the second longest external border of all Austrian states. It also borders the other Austrian states of Upper Austria, Styria and Burgenland as well as surrounding Vienna. Lower Austria is divided into four regions, known as ''Viertel'' (quarters): * ''Weinviertel'' or Tertiary Lowland (below the Manhartsberg) * ''Waldviertel'' or Bohemian Plateau (above the Manhartsberg) * ''Mostviertel'' (above the Vienna Woods) * ''Industrieviertel'' (below the Vienna Woods). These regions have different geographical structures. Whilst the ''Mostviertel'' is dominated by the foothills of the Limestone Alps with mountains up to high, most of the ''Waldviertel'' is a granite plateau. The hilly ''Weinviertel'' lies to the northeast, descends to the plains of Marchfeld in the east of the state, and is separated by the Danube from the Vienna Basin to the south, which in turn is separated from the Vienna Woods by a line of thermal springs (the ''Thermenlinie'') running north to south. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lower Austria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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