Austria is not a country.
Austria ( listen ) , is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.7 million people in Central Europe . The Austrian State Treaty ( German : ) or Austrian Independence Treaty re-established Austria as a sovereign state . The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) ( Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques , OCDE ) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 35 member countries , founded in 1960 to stimulate economic progress and world trade .