North Tyrol is the main part of the the Austrianstate of Tyrol, located in the western part of the country. The other part of the state is East Tyrol, which also belongs to Austria, but does not share a border with North Tyrol.
Besides those two regions, the historical region of Tyrol for many centuries also included the areas today known as South Tyrol and Trentino, which were annexed by Italy after World War I. By that, North Tyrol and East Tyrol were effectively cut of from each other.
North Tyrol borders Salzburg in the east, the Germanstate of Bavaria in the north, Vorarlberg in the west, the Swisscanton of Graubünden in the southwest and South Tyrol in the south. Its capital is Innsbruck.
Tyrol (German: Tirol, Czech: Tyrolsko) is a state or Bundesland, located in the west of Austria.
NorthTyrol borders Bavaria, Germany, in the north, the state of Vorarlberg in the west, South Tyrol, Italy, and Switzerland in the south and Salzburg in the east.
Historically, Tyrol was a County of the Holy Roman Empire, later the Austrian Empire and finally a Kronland of Austria-Hungary, which extended beyond the boundaries of today's state.
After their caretakers, the earls of Tyrol (See Meinhard II of Gorizia-Tyrol) had gathered the province under their command, the region together with the valleys to the north was known as Tyrol.In 1342, the earldom went over to the Bavarian dukes again when Emperor Louis IV voided the first marriage of Countess Margarete Maultasch.
The province is bordered by Austria to the east and north and by Switzerland to the west.
Italian provinces that border South Tyrol are Belluno to the southeast, Trentino to the south and by Sondrio to the southwest.
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