... half of the country covered in forests, Austria's nine Federal Provinces reflect a diversity of landscapes - the Eastern Alps, Alpine and Carpathian Foothills, the Pannonian Lowlands, the Vienna Basin and the Bohemian Massif. The vegetation changes according to the climate: the lower regions are densely wooded with fir predominating and giving way to larch and stone-pine beyond 4000 feet; the Alpine ... ...

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