Styria (, , Slovene/, ) is a state or Bundesland, located in the southeast of Austria. In area it is the second largest of the nine Austrian federated states, covering . It borders Slovenia and the Austrian states of Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Burgenland, and Carinthia. The population was 1,210,700. The capital city is Graz which had 276,526 inhabitants at the beginning of 2015.