THE AGRICULTURAL SITUATION IN AUSTRIA. 
GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY. 
The Austrian Republic consists of what is left of the old Austrian 
Kingdom after segregating from it the territories that were ceded 
to Rumania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Italy. To 
this residuary part of the old Kingdom 1,660 square miles have been 
added, by the recent cession of Burgenland, to Austria by Hungary. 
In all, the republic comprises 32,432 square miles and has a population 
of nearly 6,500,000 people. 
As seen from the accompanying map (fig. 8) , the present Republic 
of Austria is about one-fourth the size of the old Kingdom of Austria 
THE NEW REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA 
COMPARED WITH 
THE OLD AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE 
Fig. 8.— When the Austro-Hungarian Empire was split up, the territory of Bucovina to the northeast 
was ceded to Rumania; the territory of Galicia to the north was incorporated into the Republic of Poland; 
the districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia to the northwest were incorporated into the Republic of 
Czechoslovakia; part of the Tirol and the Istrian Peninsula were ceded to Italy, while Slovenia wns 
incorporated into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Republic of Austria is comprised of the districts 
about Vienna and the mountainous districts to the west occupied by the German Austrians. 
and about one-eighth the size of the former Austro-Hungarian 
Monarchy. 
Vienna, the capital city, with a population of about 2,000,000 is 
situated on the Danube River. There is river navigation to the 
west far into Germany and to the east and south through Hungary, 
through the Voivodina of Yugoslavia, and on through the "Iron 
Gate into Bulgaria and Rumania to the Black Sea. Railways 
radiate from Vienna through Czechoslovakia to Germanv and 
Poland on the north, through Germany to Switzerland and France 
on the west, through Hungary to Rumania and Russia on the oast, 
and on the south direct lines to Italy and through Yugoslavia to 
Bulgaria and Greece. Besides being a manufacturing center, Vienna 
is the gateway of commerce in food and raw materials between the 
western industrial Europe and eastern Europe. 
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