Austria
Austria is one of the 193 UN member states, in Western Europe. UN Tourism counted 31.9 million international arrivals there in 2019, more visited than 90% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Metallic.
- International arrivals
- 31.9 millionin 2019, UN Tourism
- Rank by visitors
- 20th of 199most visited first
- Stamp finish
- Metallicrarer than 10%
- Area
- 83,752 km² (32,337 sq mi)
- Population
- 8.9 millionNatural Earth estimate
- States
- 9in Globestamp’s regions layer
- Airports
- 6with scheduled flights
- World Heritage Sites
- 8on Globestamp’s list
Does Austria count as a country?
Yes. Austria is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.
| List | Counts Austria? |
|---|---|
| UN member states (193) | Yes, a member |
| Globestamp’s countries and territories (250) | Yes |
| Travelers’ Century Club (330) | Yes, as Austria |
| European Union | Yes, a member state |
| Schengen area | Yes, since 1 December 1997 |
The Austria stamp
Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Austria’s is Metallic: ink with mica in it, the finish for places with 15 to 40 million visitors a year. With 31.9 million international arrivals in 2019, Austria is more visited than 90% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.
What counts as a visit to Austria
The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Austria when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.
Places in Austria you can collect
Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Austria, from 8 World Heritage Sites.
World Heritage Sites 8
Wachau (2000) · Semmering railway (1998) · Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg (1996) · Hallstatt-Dachstein Salzkammergut cultural landscape (1997) · Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape (2001) · Historic Centre of Vienna (2001) · City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg (1999) · Palace and gardens of Schönbrunn (1996). On the bucket list →
National parks 4
Hohe Tauern National Park · Danube-Auen National Park · Gesäuse National Park · Kalkalpen National Park. On the bucket list →
Famous landmarks 1
Schönbrunn Palace. On the bucket list →
Ski resorts 61
Zell am See · Sankt Anton am Arlberg · Schladming · Ischgl · Lech · Mayrhofen and 55 more. On the bucket list →
Wine regions 15
Wachau · Schloss Gobelsburg · Freigut Thallern · Weinbau-Heuriger Kierlinger · Weingut Anita und Hans Nittnaus · Weingut FJ Gritsch Mauritiushof and 9 more. On the bucket list →
Theme parks 9
Wurstelprater · Familypark · Witches' Water · Baumkronenweg Kopfing · Erlebnispark Straßwalchen · Erlebnisweg Hausleiten and 3 more. On the bucket list →
Zoos and aquariums 24
Schönbrunn Zoo · Alpenzoo Innsbruck · Haus des Meeres · Salzburg Zoo and 20 more. On the bucket list →
Botanical gardens 10
Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna · Innsbruck University Botanic Garden · botanical garden in Klagenfurt · Alpengarten Patscherkofel and 6 more. On the bucket list →
Science museums and planetariums 6
Vienna Technical Museum · Haus der Natur Salzburg · Audioversum · Biologiezentrum Linz and 2 more. On the bucket list →
Largest cities
| City | People (urban area) |
|---|---|
| Vienna | 2,400,000 |
| Linz | 349,161 |
| Graz | 263,234 |
| Salzburg | 206,279 |
| Innsbruck | 155,214 |
| Klagenfurt | 90,610 |
| Wiener Neustadt | 82,762 |
Airports
Austria has 6 airports with scheduled flights, 6 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).
9 states to fill in
Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Austria into 9 states (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.
All 9
Burgenland · Carinthia · Lower Austria · Salzburg · Styria · Tyrol · Upper Austria · Vienna · Vorarlberg
Questions people ask
Is Austria a country?
Yes. Austria is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.
How many tourists visit Austria a year?
UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 31,884,000 international arrivals in Austria in 2019, the 20th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.
How rare is a Austria stamp in Globestamp?
It is printed in Metallic, the finish for places with 15 to 40 million visitors a year, rarer than 10% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.
Does Austria count for the Travelers’ Century Club?
Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Austria”, one of its 330 destinations.
Places as rare as Austria
Near Austria
Sources
- Countries, cities and regions: Natural Earth 10m admin-0 (public domain); lists as of October 2026.
- Visitors: UN Tourism via the World Bank, ST.INT.ARVL (International tourism, number of arrivals), CC BY 4.0, data updated 2026-10-08. Each country's latest year before 2020. Countries count visitors differently; use as a rough rank.
- World Heritage Sites, parks, landmarks and the bucket-list places: Wikidata (CC0), as compiled in the app, October 2026.
- Airports: OurAirports (public domain), airports with scheduled service.
- Travelers’ Century Club: the club’s list of 330 destinations, as of January 2022.