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Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.7 million people in Central Europe.

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 territory of Austria covers.

The terrain is highly mountainous, lying within the Alps; only 32% of the country is below, and its highest point is.

The majority of the population speaks local Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and Austrian German in its standard form is the country's official language.

Other local official languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene.

Night skiing is the sport of skiing or snowboarding after sundown, offered at many ski resorts and mountains.

There are usually electric lights – including LED lamps – along the piste which allow for better visibility.

It typically begins after a resort's skiing-day ends (sunset), and ends between 8:00 and 10:30 p.m.

Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance.

Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreational activity; however, some still use it as a means of transportation.

Variants of cross-country skiing are adapted to a range of terrain which spans unimproved, sometimes mountainous terrain to groomed courses that are specifically designed for the sport.

A half-pipe is a structure used in gravity extreme sports such as snowboarding, skateboarding, skiing, freestyle BMX, and skating.

The structure resembles a cross section of a swimming pool, essentially two concave ramps (or quarter-pipes), topped by copings and decks, facing each other across a flat transition, also known as a tranny.

Originally half-pipes were half sections of a large diameter pipe.

Since the 1980s, half-pipes contain an extended flat bottom between the quarter-pipes; the original style half-pipes are no longer built.

Flat ground provides time to regain balance after landing and more time to prepare for the next trick.

A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports.

In Europe, most ski resorts are towns or villages in or adjacent to a ski area – a mountainous area with pistes, ski trails and a ski lift system.

In North America, it is more common for ski areas to exist well away from towns, so ski resorts usually are destination resorts, often purpose-built and self-contained, where skiing is the main activity.