The Vorarlberg is the most Western Land of the Austria. Located " in front of Arlberg" (in German VOR dem Arlberg ), its surface is of 2.601 square kilometers and its population was of 354.260 inhabitants in 2002. It is bordered in the west by the Suisse and the Liechtenstein, in north by the Germany, in the south by the Suisse and in the east by the Land of the the Tyrol.