Geography, population profiles
The region's urban settlement network and is characteristic of a largely rural area with numerous small and a few larger urban centres (Györ, Sopron, Eisenstadt, Szombathely). The Austrian State of Burgenland, which borders Hungary, has struggled with depopulation, an ageing population and outmigration for many years. The proximity of the Vienna region, however, serves to stabilise the border region's population somewhat in the northern reaches of the Austrian side.