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AUSTRIA.

Provinces of the Empire

Area in Austrian square miles

Civil

population

Total

population

German Monarchy : —

! Lower Austria (Unter der Ens)

344-49

1,954,251

1,990,708

l Upper Austria (Ober der Ens)

208-47

731,541

736,519

Salzburg ....

124-52

151,410

153,159

Styria (Steiermark).

39019

1,131,309

1,137,748

Carinthia (Karnten)

180-26

336,400

337,694

Carniola (Krain)

173-57

463,273

446,334

Coast, land (Kiistenland).

138-82

583,535

601,981

Tyrol and Vo*arlberg

509-62

878,524

885,406

Bohemia (Bohmen).

90285

5,105,682

5,140,156

Moravia (Mahren).

386-29

2,011,406

2,030,783

Silesia (Sehlesien).

89-45

511,581

513,352

Galicia (Galizie-n).

1,364-06

5,417,343

5,444,016

Bukowina ....

181-61

511,964

513,404

Dalmatia (Dalmatien)

Total.

222-30 •5,216-50

454,616

468,781

20,242,835

20,420,041

Kingdom of Hungary : —

Hungary. ....

3,679-82

11,109,192

11,180,048

Croatia and Slavonia

327-39

1,015,906

1,023,858

Transylvania (Siebenbiirgen).

Total. Military frontier

Grand total.

973-36

2,109,107

2,122,458

4,980-56

14,234,205

14,326,364

583-00

1,195,033

1.197,187

10,780-06

35,672,073

35,943,592

At the census of 1857, the last preceding that of Dec. 81, 1869, the population of the empire amounted to 87,339,913 souls, living on an area of 11,606 Austrian, or 243,727 English square miles. By the cession of its Italian provinces, in 1859 and 1866, the empire lost 4,766,910 inhabitants, and an area of 790 Austrian, or 16,493 English square miles, being a territory larger in extent and population than the kingdom of the Netherlands. Comparing the extent of the empire as constituted at the date of the census of 1869 with similar limits at the census of 1857, the population at the latter date was 32,580,002, showing an increase of 3,413,590 in the course of twelve years, or rather more than 1 per cent, per annum.

More than two-thirds of the population of the empire are engaged in husbandry. In Bohemia, however, and in Lower Austria and Moravia, where the chief efforts for fostering a manufacturing interest are made, about one-half of the population is withdrawn from the cultivation of the soil.

The population is divided with respect to race and language into the following nationalities, according to an official estimate: —