Danube-Auen National Park covers 93 square kilometers in Vienna and Lower Austria and protects one of the largest remaining Danube floodplains in Middle Europe. Designated an IUCN Category II national park, it preserves lowland forests, meadows, wetlands and other riparian habitat along the river just downstream of Vienna, spanning the areas of the Lobau district of Vienna, Gross-Enzersdorf, Orth an der Donau, Eckartsau, Engelhartstetten, Hainburg, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Petronell-Carnuntum, Regelsbrunn, Haslau-Maria Ellend, Fischamend and Schwechat.
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1. Danube-Auen National Park (Wikipedia)
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Donau-Auen National Park (German: Nationalpark Donau-Auen) covers 93 square kilometres in Vienna and Lower Austria and is one of the largest remaining floodplains of the Danube in Middle Europe.
2. Danube-Auen National Park (Wikidata)
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Wikidata Q474886, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Ramsar Sites Information Service: Donau-March-Thaya-Auen
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national park
Austria (Wikidata)
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