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The Region of Lower Austria is bounded by Hungary original: 寒牙里 (Hanyali) to the east, joins the border of Styria original: 塞底里阿 (Saidiliva) to the south, and is bounded by Bohemia to the north. Within this ancestral land, there are four mountainous districts. Its total area is 15,180 square li A traditional Chinese unit of distance; here used to approximate European square miles or leagues, with a population of 2,031,130 people. The territory is so vast that the tribes are divided into two parts, known as Upper Austria and Lower Austria. Lower Austria governs twenty small districts original: 部落 (buluo), literally "tribes," used by 19th-century Chinese geographers to describe administrative subdivisions. Its local products include gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, woolen cloth original: 布呢 (buni), a phonetic loanword for broadcloth or woolen textiles, mercury, cinnabar original: 銀硃 (yinzhu), used for pigments, glass, gemstones, and silk.
The Region of Upper Austria is bounded by Hungary to the east, Moravia original: 磨希爾阿 (Moxi'era) to the west, Lower Austria to the south, and Bavaria original: 諾那威阿 (Nuonawei'a), likely a phonetic transcription of the German 'Donau' (Danube) or a variation of Bavaria to the north. This region is very mountainous and produces the five grains A Chinese idiom for staple food crops, used here to describe Austrian agriculture. It governs eighteen small districts.
Styria original: 塞底里阿 (Saidiliva) is bounded by Hungary to the east, Salzburg original: 沙爾斯麥 (Sha'ersimai) to the west, and Illyria original: 依爾那里阿 (Yi'ernaliya) to the south. Its area is 8,000 square li, and it is bounded by Austria to the north.