Austria's largest city with a population of 1.7 million is Vienna.
Austria ( listen ) , is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.7 million people in Central Europe . The capital and largest city , with a population exceeding 1.7 million , is Vienna . Vienna . Vienna is Austria 's primary city , with a population of about 1.8 million ( 2.6 million within the metropolitan area , nearly one third of Austria 's population ) , and its cultural , economic , and political centre .