Lower Austria
Bundesland (federal state), northeastern Austria. It is bordered by the Czech Republic on the north, Slovakia on the east, and by Bundeslander Burgenland on the southeast, Steiermark (Styria) on the south, and Oberosterreich (Upper Austria) on the west. Niederosterreich Bundesland surrounds but does not include Austria's largest city and national capital, Vienna, which is a separate administrative entity.
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