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GebirgeMountains: large portions of Austria´s territory are covered with mountains, whose permanently settled regions account for only 38.8 % of the Austrian territory. The Alps are the most important mountains representing the characteristic landscape features of the western provinces Vorarlberg, Tirol and Salzburg, as well as of Upper and Lower Austria, Carinthia and Styria.
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