Wies is a town in the district of Deutschlandsberg, in the Austrian state of Styria. It lies in the southern part of Styria, a region known in German as the Steiermark, within the district that takes its name from the nearby town of Deutschlandsberg.
As a municipality in this part of Austria, Wies belongs to the administrative structures of the Deutschlandsberg district and the broader state of Styria. The area is part of southern Austria, near the border with Slovenia, in a landscape of hills and valleys characteristic of the region.