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Vorarlberg

<p><b>Vorarlberg</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt"><a href="/en/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English" class="wl">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span>ˈ</span><span>f</span><span>ɔːr</span><span>ɑːr</span><span>l</span><span>b</span><span>ɜːr</span><span>ɡ</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/en/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key" class="wl"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">FOR</span>-arl-burg</i></a>,<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="#cite_note-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[3]</span></a></span> <small about="#mwt25" typeof="mw:Transclusion" data-mw="{&quot;parts&quot;:[{&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;target&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;IPA-de&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;./Template:IPA-de&quot;},&quot;params&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;foːɐ̯ˈarlbɛrk&quot;},&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;langat&quot;},&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;De-Vorarlberg.ogg&quot;}},&quot;i&quot;:0}}]}">Austrian German:<span> </span></small><span class="IPA"><a href="/en/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German" class="wl">[foːɐ̯ˈarlbɛrk]</a></span><span> </span><span class="nowrap" style="font-size:85%">(<span class="unicode haudio"><span class="fn"><span style="white-space:nowrap;margin-right:.25em;"><span><a href="/en/File:De-Vorarlberg.ogg" title="About this sound" class="image wl"><img loading="lazy" alt="Loudspeaker.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" data-file-type="drawing" height="11" width="11" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/17px-Loudspeaker.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/22px-Loudspeaker.svg.png 2x"></a></span></span><a href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/De-Vorarlberg.ogg" resource="./Media:De-Vorarlberg.ogg" title="De-Vorarlberg.ogg" target="_blank">listen</a></span></span>)</span>; <a href="/en/Vorarlbergisch" title="Vorarlbergisch" class="mw-redirect wl">Vorarlbergisch</a><span>: </span><i lang="gsw">Vorarlbearg</i>, <span><i lang="gsw">Voralbärg</i></span>, or <span><i lang="gsw">Voraadelbearg</i></span>) is the westernmost <a href="/en/States_of_Austria" title="States of Austria" class="wl">state</a> (<span><i lang="de">Land</i></span>) of <a href="/en/Austria" title="Austria" class="wl">Austria</a>. It has the second-smallest geographical area after <a href="/en/Vienna" title="Vienna" class="wl">Vienna</a> and, although it also has the second-smallest population, it is the state with the second-highest population density (also after Vienna). It borders three countries: <a href="/en/Germany" title="Germany" class="wl">Germany</a> (<a href="/en/Bavaria" title="Bavaria" class="wl">Bavaria</a> and <a href="/en/Baden-Württemberg" title="Baden-Württemberg" class="wl">Baden-Württemberg</a> via <a href="/en/Lake_Constance" title="Lake Constance" class="wl">Lake Constance</a>), <a href="/en/Switzerland" title="Switzerland" class="wl">Switzerland</a> (<a href="/en/Grisons" title="Grisons" class="wl">Grisons</a> and <a href="/en/Canton_of_St._Gallen" title="Canton of St. Gallen" class="wl">St. Gallen</a>), and <a href="/en/Liechtenstein" title="Liechtenstein" class="wl">Liechtenstein</a>. The only Austrian state that shares a border with Vorarlberg is <a href="/en/Tyrol_(state)" title="Tyrol (state)" class="wl">Tyrol</a>, to the east.</p>

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    Vorarlbearg, Country, Capital,...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard mobile-collapse-element"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Vorarlberg</div>
    <div class="nickname ib-settlement-native" lang="gsw">Vorarlbearg</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/en/States_of_Austria" title="States of Austria" class="wl">State</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1028600610" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols{text-align:center;display:table;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-row{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cell{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cellt{display:table-cell;vertical-align:top}</style>
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<div class="ib-settlement-cols-row"><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span class="mw-image-border"><a href="/en/File:Flag_of_Vorarlberg_(state).svg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" title="Flag of Vorarlberg" data-hash="File:Flag_of_Vorarlberg_(state).svg"><img loading="lazy"alt="Flag of Vorarlberg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Flag_of_Vorarlberg_%28state%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Vorarlberg_%28state%29.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" data-file-type="drawing" height="80" width="120" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Flag_of_Vorarlberg_%28state%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Vorarlberg_%28state%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Flag_of_Vorarlberg_%28state%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Vorarlberg_%28state%29.svg.png 2x"></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Flag</div></div><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span><a href="/en/File:Vorarlberg_CoA.svg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" title="Coat of arms of Vorarlberg" data-hash="File:Vorarlberg_CoA.svg"><img loading="lazy"alt="Coat of arms of Vorarlberg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Vorarlberg_CoA.svg/75px-Vorarlberg_CoA.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="686" data-file-type="drawing" height="103" width="75" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Vorarlberg_CoA.svg/113px-Vorarlberg_CoA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Vorarlberg_CoA.svg/150px-Vorarlberg_CoA.svg.png 2x"></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Coat of arms</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Anthem: "<span class="new">’s Ländle, meine Heimat</span><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal; "><span>&nbsp;</span>[<a href="/de/’s%20Ländle,%20meine%20Heimat" title="de:’s Ländle, meine Heimat" class="extiw wl">de</a>]</span>"<br><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><span class="mw-default-size mw-default-audio-height"><span><div class='audio-player' title='’s Ländle, meine Heimat'><audio controls="" preload="none" height="32" width="220" resource="./File:’s_Ländle,_meine_Heimat.ogg"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/%E2%80%99s_L%C3%A4ndle%2C_meine_Heimat.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=&quot;vorbis&quot;" data-title="Original Ogg file (193 kbps)" data-shorttitle="Ogg source"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a0/%E2%80%99s_L%C3%A4ndle%2C_meine_Heimat.ogg/%E2%80%99s_L%C3%A4ndle%2C_meine_Heimat.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-title="MP3" data-shorttitle="MP3"></audio></div></span></span></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span><a href="/en/File:Vorarlberg_in_Austria.svg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" title="Location of Vorarlberg" data-hash="File:Vorarlberg_in_Austria.svg"><img loading="lazy"alt="Location of Vorarlberg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Vorarlberg_in_Austria.svg/250px-Vorarlberg_in_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1256" data-file-height="700" data-file-type="drawing" height="139" width="250" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Vorarlberg_in_Austria.svg/375px-Vorarlberg_in_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Vorarlberg_in_Austria.svg/500px-Vorarlberg_in_Austria.svg.png 2x"></a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1073938472" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a rel="mw:ExtLink" href="//geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Vorarlberg&amp;params=47_14_37_N_9_53_38_E_region:AT-8_type:adm1st" class="external text" target="_blank"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms"><span class="latitude">47°14′37″N</span> <span class="longitude">9°53′38″E</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border"><span><img loading="lazy" alt="Flag_of_Austria.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" data-file-type="drawing" height="15" width="23" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x"></span></span><span>&nbsp;</span></span><a href="/en/Austria" title="Austria" class="wl">Austria</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Bregenz" title="Bregenz" class="wl">Bregenz</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span><a href="/en/List_of_governors_of_Vorarlberg" title="List of governors of Vorarlberg" class="wl">Governor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Markus_Wallner" title="Markus Wallner" class="wl">Markus Wallner</a> (<a href="/en/Austrian_People's_Party" title="Austrian People's Party" class="wl">ÖVP</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Total</th><td class="infobox-data">2,601.48<span>&nbsp;</span>km<sup>2</sup> (1,004.44<span>&nbsp;</span>sq<span>&nbsp;</span>mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"><span>&nbsp;</span></span>(1 January 2022)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Total</th><td class="infobox-data">401,674</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Density</th><td class="infobox-data">150/km<sup>2</sup> (400/sq<span>&nbsp;</span>mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Time_zone" title="Time zone" class="wl">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/UTC+1" title="UTC+1" class="mw-redirect wl">UTC+1</a> (<a href="/en/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time" class="wl">CET</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Summer (<a href="/en/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time" class="wl">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/UTC+2" title="UTC+2" class="mw-redirect wl">UTC+2</a> (<a href="/en/Central_European_Summer_Time" title="Central European Summer Time" class="wl">CEST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166" class="wl">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">AT-8</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index" class="wl">HDI</a> (2019)</th><td class="infobox-data">0.909<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-GlobalDataLab_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-GlobalDataLab-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span><br><span style="color:green">very high</span> · <a href="/en/List_of_Austrian_states_by_Human_Development_Index" title="List of Austrian states by Human Development Index" class="wl">6th of 9</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/First_level_NUTS_of_the_European_Union#Austria" title="First level NUTS of the European Union" class="mw-redirect wl">NUTS Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/NUTS_of_Austria" title="NUTS of Austria" class="mw-redirect wl">AT3</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Federal_Council_of_Austria" title="Federal Council of Austria" class="mw-redirect wl">Votes in Bundesrat</a></th><td class="infobox-data">3 (of 62)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="http://vorarlberg.at/" class="external text" target="_blank">vorarlberg<wbr>.at</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>
<p>The capital of Vorarlberg is <a href="/en/Bregenz" title="Bregenz" class="wl">Bregenz</a> (29,698 inhabitants), although <a href="/en/Dornbirn" title="Dornbirn" class="wl">Dornbirn</a> (49,845 inhabitants) and <a href="/en/Feldkirch,_Vorarlberg" title="Feldkirch, Vorarlberg" class="wl">Feldkirch</a> (34,192 inhabitants) have <a href="/en/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Austria" title="List of cities and towns in Austria" class="wl">larger populations</a>.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="#cite_note-4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[4]</span></a></span> Vorarlberg is also the only state in Austria in which the local dialect is not <a href="/en/Austro-Bavarian_dialects" title="Austro-Bavarian dialects" class="mw-redirect wl">Austro-Bavarian</a>, but rather an <a href="/en/Alemannic_dialects" title="Alemannic dialects" class="mw-redirect wl">Alemannic dialect</a>; it therefore has much more in common culturally with (historically) Alemannic-speaking <a href="/en/German-speaking_Switzerland" title="German-speaking Switzerland" class="wl">German-speaking Switzerland</a>, <a href="/en/Liechtenstein" title="Liechtenstein" class="wl">Liechtenstein</a>, <a href="/en/Baden-Württemberg" title="Baden-Württemberg" class="wl">Baden-Württemberg</a>, <a href="/en/Bavarian_Swabia" title="Bavarian Swabia" class="mw-redirect wl">Bavarian Swabia</a>, and <a href="/en/Alsace" title="Alsace" class="wl">Alsace</a> than with the rest of <a href="/en/Austria" title="Austria" class="wl">Austria</a>, southeastern <a href="/en/Bavaria" title="Bavaria" class="wl">Bavaria</a>, and <a href="/en/South_Tyrol" title="South Tyrol" class="wl">South Tyrol</a>.</p>

<p>Vorarlberg is to a large extent mountainous. About 37% (97,000 hectares) of its surface is forest.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="#cite_note-5" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[5]</span></a></span></p>



Vorarlberg ; Vorarlbergisch: Vorarlbearg, Voralbärg, or Voraadelbearg) is the westernmost state of Austria. It has the second-smallest geographical area after Vienna and, although it also has the second-smallest population, it is the state with the second-highest population density . It borders three countries: Germany , Switzerland , and Liechtenstein. The only Austrian state that shares a border with Vorarlberg is Tyrol, to the east. The capital of Vorarlberg is Bregenz , although Dornbirn and Feldkirch have larger populations. Vorarlberg is also the only state in Austria in which the local dialect is not Austro-Bavarian, but rather an Alemannic dialect; it therefore has much more in common culturally with Alemannic-speaking German-speaking Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Baden-Württemberg, Bavarian Swabia, and Alsace than with the rest of Austria, southeastern Bavaria, and South Tyrol. Vorarlberg is to a large extent mountainous. About 37% of its surface is forest. 