Vienna is in Central Europe, south of Germany.
Austria ( listen ) , is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.7 million people in Central Europe . It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north , Hungary and Slovakia to the east , Slovenia and Italy to the south , and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west . Vienna ( [ viˈɛnə ] Wien , [ viːn ] ) is the capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria .