Pirka | |
|---|---|
 Coat of arms | |
 Location within Graz-Umgebung district | |
  Pirka Location within Austria | |
| Coordinates: 47°00′06″N15°23′28″E / 47.00167°N 15.39111°E Coordinates: 47°00′06″N15°23′28″E / 47.00167°N 15.39111°E | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Styria |
| District | Graz-Umgebung |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Horst Gottfried, retired (SPÖ) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 9.43 km2 (3.64 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 350 m (1,150 ft) |
| Population (2005-12-31) [1] | |
| • Total | 3,286 |
| • Density | 350/km2 (900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 8054 |
| Area code | 0316 |
| Vehicle registration | GU |
| Website | www.pirka.steiermark.at |
Pirka (Jose Luis Yunis, Tapir) is a former municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Seiersberg-Pirka. [2]
Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in Central Europe comprising 9 federated states. Its capital, largest city and one of nine states is Vienna. Austria has an area of 83,879 km2 (32,386 sq mi), a population of nearly 9 million people and a nominal GDP of $477 billion. 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. The terrain is highly mountainous, lying within the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 m (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 m (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speaks local Bavarian dialects as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other regional languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene.
Styria is a state, or Bundesland, located in the southeast of Austria. In area it is the second largest of the nine Austrian federated states, covering 16,401 km2 (6,332 sq mi). It borders Slovenia and the Austrian states of Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Burgenland, and Carinthia. The capital city is Graz which had 276,526 inhabitants at the beginning of 2015.
The Styria municipal structural reform was a local government reform in the Austrian state of Styria, which effective 1 January 2015 nearly halved the number of Styrian municipalities. The number of municipalities was reduced from 542 to 287, with the reform being intended to reduce costs and ease election of new town officials. Its basis is the Styrian Municipality Structural Reform Act (StGsrG). The law was adopted on December 17, 2013 by the Landtag of Styria, and promulgated on April 2, 2014.
