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Linz is the capital of Upper Austria and with 207,247 inhabitants the third largest city in Austria after Vienna and Graz and the center of the country's second largest metropolitan area with 805,770 people (as of 2020).

The city on the Danube has an area of 95.99 km² and is the center of the Upper Austrian central region. As a statutory city, it is both a municipality and a political district; it is also the seat of the district headquarters of the neighboring districts of Linz-Land and Urfahr-Umgebung.

After the end of World War II (1945), Linz had a reputation as a dusty steel town, which it owed to its largest employer, the steelworks of today's Voestalpine AG. However, the city gradually gained a new image through improved environmental protection and numerous initiatives in the cultural sector, for example events such as the Linzer Klangwolke, the Brucknerfest, the Pflasterspektakel and the Prix Ars Electronica or Ars Electronica Festival. Since 2004, the Crossing Europe film festival has been held annually. In 2013, the new Musiktheater am Volksgarten, a modern theater or opera house, was opened. With these and other initiatives, Linz has been able to position itself as a city of culture, although structures of the old industrial city are still visible to some extent. Fittingly, as a university city with several universities, Linz also offers numerous courses of study in the artistic and cultural fields.

The city gives its name to the Linzer Torte, whose recipe is considered the oldest known cake recipe in the world.

The city is also unofficially called Linz on the Danube, so as not to be confused with the German city of Linz on the Rhine.