The Tyrolean Unterland (german: Tiroler Unterland) is that part of the Austrian state of

Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

east of its capital city,

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria. On the River Inn, at its junction with the Wipp Valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass to the south, it had a p ...

, excluding

East Tyrol East Tyrol, occasionally East Tirol (german: Osttirol), is an exclave of the Austrian state of Tyrol, separated from the main North Tyrol part by the short common border of Salzburg and Italian South Tyrol (''Südtirol'', it, Alto Adige). It i ...

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The Tyrolean Unterland should not be confused with the Tyrolean

Lower Inn Valley The Lower Inn Valley (german: Unterinntal) is that part of the Inntal valley through which the Inn (river), Inn river flows from a point a few kilometres west of Innsbruck near its confluence with the Melach downstream to a few kilometres before R ...

(''Tiroler Unterinntal'') which is in the same region but only describes the Inn valley, nor with the

South Tyrolean Unterland The South Tyrolean Unterland (german: Südtiroler Unterland) or Bozen Unterland (''Bozner Unterland''; it, Bassa Atesina) is a section of the Etschtal valley stretching from the regional capital Bolzano (Bozen) down the Adige (Etsch) river to Tra ...

(''Südtiroler Unterland''). Besides the Unterland there is also the Tyrolean Oberland, which lies west of Innsbruck. Innsbruck itself is usually considered to be part of the Lower Inn valley, but is usually mentioned separately. The middle Inn valley around Innsbruck is therefore often referred to as the Tyrolean Mittelland (''Tiroler Mittelland''). A further distinction can be made based on linguistic criteria. The linguistic shade using the "sch" sound - e.g. ''Tirol isch lei oans'' - is exhibited especially in dialects west of the

Zillertal The Ziller Valley (german: Zillertal) is a valley in Tyrol, Austria that is drained by the Ziller River. It is the widest valley south of the Inn Valley (german: Inntal) and lends its name to the Zillertal Alps, the strongly glaciated section o ...

. On that basis, the Tyrolese living actually in the Lower Inn valley are not strictly in the Tyrolean Unterland, because the differ from them through this South Austro-Bavarian "sch" from the Bavarian dialects that are found east of the Zillertal. In the districts of Kufstein and Kitzbühel a

Central Austro-Bavarian Central Bavarian form a subgroup of Bavarian language, Bavarian dialects in large parts of Austria and the German state of Bavaria along the Danube river, on the northern side of the Eastern Alps. They are spoken in the 'Altbayern, Old Bavarian' ...

dialect tends to prevail over the South Austro-Bavarian version. For example a person from Schwaz naturally feels himself to be a Tyrolese, more precisely an ''Unterinntaler'' from the Lower Inn valley – but in no circumstances considers himself to be an ''Unterlandler''. If a native from Schwaz drives to Kufstein, he is from his point of view "in the Unterland", whilst he himself lives between Innsbruck and the Unterland, but not actually in the Unterland, although according to the geographical definition that is self-evidently the case.

NUTS classification: AT335

In the NUTS classification by the

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the ''Tirolean Oberland'' is one of the five groups of districts (level NUTS:AT 2) in Tyrol; it has the code AT335 and covers the three

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Schwaz District The Bezirk Schwaz is an administrative district ('' Bezirk'') in Tyrol, Austria. It borders Bavaria (Germany) in the north, the districts of Kufstein, Kitzbühel and Pinzgau (Salzburg) in the east, South Tyrol (Italy) in the south, and the Innsb ...

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Kitzbühel District The Bezirk Kitzbühel is an administrative district (''Bezirk'') in Tyrol, Austria. It borders Bavaria ( Germany) in the north, the Kufstein and Schwaz districts in the west, and the Pinzgau region ( Salzburg) in the east and south. Area of the d ...

The district of

Innsbruck Land The Bezirk Innsbruck-Land is an administrative district ('' Bezirk'') in Tyrol, Austria. It encloses the Statutarstadt Innsbruck, and borders Bavaria (Germany) in the north, the district Schwaz in the east, South Tyrol in Italy to the south, and t ...

, which traditionally counts as part of Oberland and Unterland, falls within AT332 Innsbruck group of districts. :Towns in the Tyrolean Unterland:

Hall in Tirol Hall in Tyrol is a town in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol, Austria. Located at an altitude of 574 m, about 5 km (3 mi) east of the state's capital Innsbruck in the Inn valley, it has a population of about 13,000 (Jan 2013). Histo ...

Schwaz Schwaz () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is the administrative center of the Schwaz district. Schwaz is located in the lower Inn valley. Location Schwaz lies in the middle of the Lower Inn Valley at the foot of the Kellerjoch a ...

, Rattenberg,

Wörgl Wörgl () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, in the Kufstein district. It is from the international border with Bavaria, Germany. Population Transport Wörgl is an important railway junction between the line from Innsbruck to Munic ...

Kufstein Kufstein (; Central Bavarian: ''Kufstoa'') is a town in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the administrative seat of Kufstein District. With a population of about 19,600 it is the second largest Tyrolean town after the state capital Innsbruck. The grea ...

Kitzbühel Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbühel district (). Kitzbühe ...

Regions of Tyrol (state) Regions of Austria Innsbruck-Land District Schwaz District Kufstein District Kitzbühel District {{Tyrol-geo-stub