Austria's capital city is a city.
Austria . The capital and largest city , with a population exceeding 1.7 million , is Vienna . Vienna ( [ viˈɛnə ] Wien , [ viːn ] ) is the capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria . 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 .