Austria is in Europe.
Austria ( listen ) , is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.7 million people in Central Europe . The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty , when the vast majority of the country was a part of the Holy Roman Empire . The Holy Roman Empire ( Sacrum Imperium Romanum , Heiliges Römisches Reich ) was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 . Hungary ( [ ˈhʌŋɡəri ] Magyarország [ ˈmɒɟɒrorsaːɡ ] ) is a unitary parliamentary republic in Central Europe .