Villach is the second-biggest city in the federal state of Carinthia and the seventh-largest city overall in Austria. For the entirety of the Alpe-Adria region and southern Austria, it is a crucial traffic intersection. Numbering 61,887 as of January 2018, the population

Villach participates in the Alpine Town of the Year Association with other Alpine communities to carry out the Alpine Convention and attain sustainable development in the Alpine Arc. The inaugural Alpine Town of the Year title went to Villach in 1997.