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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...

n usage of the term, Upper Styria (Obersteiermark) refers exclusively to the northwestern, generally mountainous and well wooded half of the federal state

States of Austria

Austria is a federal republic made up of nine states, known in German as Länder . Since Land is also the German word for a country, the term Bundesländer is often used instead to avoid ambiguity. The Constitution of Austria uses both terms...

 of Styria

Styria (state)

Styria is a state or Bundesland, located in the southeast of Austria. In area it is the second largest of the nine Austrian federated states, covering 16,401 km². It borders Slovenia as well as the other Austrian states of Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Burgenland, and Carinthia. ...

, the southwestern half of the state around the capital of Graz

Graz

The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...

 being known as Mittelsteiermark (Central Styria), which is further divided into Eastern and Western Styria (east and west of Graz).

The Obersteiermark consists of the districts of Murau

Murau (district)

Bezirk Murau is a district of the state of Styria in Austria.-Municipalities:Suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.* Dürnstein in der Steiermark**Wildbad Einöd* Frojach-Katsch...

, Liezen

Liezen (district)

Bezirk Liezen is a district of the state of Styria in Austria.It is by far the largest district in Austria, about three times the size of other large districts, and is divided into three "subdistricts":...

, Judenburg

Judenburg (district)

Bezirk Judenburg is a district of the state of Styria in Austria.-Municipalities:Suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.* Amering...

, Knittelfeld

Knittelfeld (district)

Bezirk Knittelfeld is a district of the state ofStyria in Austria.-Municipalities:Towns are indicated in boldface; market towns in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.* Apfelberg**Landschach* Feistritz bei Knittelfeld**Altendorf,...

, Leoben

Leoben (district)

Bezirk Leoben is a district of the state ofStyria in Austria.-Municipalities:Towns are indicated in boldface; market towns in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.* Eisenerz* Gai** Edling, Gausendorf, Gimplach, Gößgraben, Kurzheim,...

, Bruck an der Mur

Bruck an der Mur (district)

Bezirk Bruck an der Mur is a district in the Austrian state of Styria.-Municipalities:* Aflenz Kurort* Aflenz Land** Döllach, Dörflach, Graßnitz, Jauring, Tutschach* Breitenau am Hochlantsch** Sankt Erhard, Sankt Jakob-Breitenau...

 and Mürzzuschlag

Mürzzuschlag (district)

Bezirk Mürzzuschlag is a district of the state of Styria in Austria.-Municipalities:Suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.* Allerheiligen im Mürztal...

. It is a generally rural region characterized by agriculture and tourism, except for the area between the towns of Judenburg

Judenburg

- People :* Renate Götschl* Egon Haar * Herbert Hufnagl, journalist * Gernot Jurtin* Christian Muthspiel, jazz musician, painter* Kurt Muthspiel, composer * Wolfgang Muthspiel* Christian Pfannberger* Walter Pfrimer* Georg Pichler...

 and Mürzzuschlag

Mürzzuschlag

Mürzzuschlag is a town in northeastern Styria, Austria, the capital of the Mürzzuschlag District. It is located on the Mürz river near the Semmering Pass, the border with the state of Lower Austria, about southwest of Vienna. The population is 8,745...

, in the valley formed by the rivers Mur and Mürz

Mürz

The Mürz is a river in Austria.It begins north of the Schneealpe in Lower Austria, flows into Styria, and meets the Mur River after 98 km in Bruck an der Mur. Its headwaters end at Mürzzuschlag. Along its course are the tracks of the Southern Railway as well as the Semmering Highway....

, with extensive industrial sites.

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In Slovenian

Slovenian language

Slovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic language spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. It is the first language of about 1.85 million people and is one of the 23 official and working languages of the European Union...

 usage, the term Upper Styria (Zgornja Štajerska) refers to the whole Austrian state of Styria, as opposed to the region often called Lower Styria

Lower Styria

Lower Styria or Slovenian Styria is a traditional region in northeastern Slovenia, comprising the southern third of the former Duchy of Styria. The population of Lower Styria in its historical boundaries amounts to around 705,000 inhabitants, or 34.5% of the population of Slovenia...

 (Spódnja Štájerska or Slovenska Štájerska, mostly just Štájerska), the southern third of the former Duchy of Styria

Duchy of Styria

The history of Styria concerns the region roughly corresponding to the modern Austrian state of Styria and the Slovene region of Styria from its settlement by Germans and Slavs in the Dark Ages until the present...

 that after World War I was allotted to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a state stretching from the Western Balkans to Central Europe which existed during the often-tumultuous interwar era of 1918–1941...

 by the 1919 Treaty of Saint Germain and is today part of Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

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