The Pinka is a river in Central Europe with a length of approximately 55 km. Its source is located in Styria, eastern Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

, next to the provincial border of Burgenland

Burgenland

Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east...

. It passes into Hungary between the villages of Burg and Felsőcsatár

Felsocsatár

-Location:The nearest villages are Narda, Vaskeresztes, Torony, Dozmat and Nárai in Hungary, and Burg in Burgenland, Austria....

, and crosses the Austrian-Hungarian border five times. Further it flows into the Rába

Rába

The Rába is a river in southeastern Austria and western Hungary and a right tributary of the Danube. Its source is in Austria, some kilometres east of Bruck an der Mur below Heubodenhöhe Hill. It flows through the Austrian states of Styria and Burgenland, and the Hungarian counties of Vas and...

 river near Körmend

Körmend

-Places of interest:The town is especially well known for its castle which used to belong to the Batthyany family, one of the most important aristocrat families of Hungary. Blessed Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann , a famous ophthalmologist who was beatified by the Catholic Church, lived in the...

. Its main tributary is the Strem brook.

Important towns on its course are Pinkafeld

Pinkafeld

Pinkafeld is a town in Burgenland in Austria and the second largest city in the district Oberwart. The Hungarian name of the town is Pinkafő.- Geography :...

 and Oberwart

Oberwart

Oberwart or Felsőőr is a town in Burgenland in southeast Austria on the banks of the Pinka River, and the capital of the district of the same name...

(Hungarian: Felsőőr).