Austria is in Europe.
Alps . stretching approximately 1,200 km across eight Alpine countries : Austria , France , Germany , Italy , Liechtenstein , Monaco , Slovenia , and Switzerland . Austria ( listen ) , is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.7 million people in Central Europe . 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 .