Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the administrative division of countries for statistical purposes. The standard was developed by the European Union, and thus only covers the member states of the EU in detail; Eurostat also devised a hierarchy for the 10 countries which joined the EU in 2004, but these are subject to minor changes. The NUTS divisions do not necessarily correspond to administrative divisions within the country. The acronym is derived from the French name for the scheme, nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques.

A NUTS code begins with a two letter code referencing the country, which are identical with the ISO 3166-1 codes (except UK instead of GB for the United Kingdom). The subdivision of countries is then referred with one number, covering the same entities as the ISO 3166-2 standard. A second or third subdivision level is referred with another number each. Each numbering starts with 1 as 0 is used for the upper level. In case it has more than 9 entities capital letters are used to continue the numbering.

Additionally to the full three levels for the European Union countries all countries have a NUTS code with a two letter code for a continent and two numbers for the country, and for the USA, Canada and Australia the states are numbered separately.

There are some anomalies: for example, Gibraltar is listed as being outside the EU with the code EO21; while French Guiana is listed twice, once in France as FR930 and once in South America as AS13.

NUTS is thus in some extent similar with the ISO 3166 standard, as well as the FIPS standard of the United States.


Levels

There are three levels of NUTS defined, with two levels of local administrative units (LAUs) below that, historically called NUTS levels 4 and 5 and sometimes still described as such. Note that not all countries have every level of division. Luxembourg, for example, has only LAUs; the three NUTS divisions each correspond to the entire country itself.

Countries NUTS 1 NUTS 2 NUTS 3
Austria AT Groups of states3 States9 Groups of Bezirks35
Belgium BE Regions3 Provinces11 Arrondissements43
Denmark DK -1 -1 Counties15
Finland FI Mainland Finland1 Large areas4 Regions19
Ĺland1 -1 -1
France FR ZEAT8 Regions22 Départements96
Overseas departments1 Overseas departments4 Département d'outre-mer4
Germany DE States16 Regierungsbezirke41 Districts439
Greece GR Groups of development regions4 Peripheries13 Prefectures51
Ireland IE -1 Regions2 Regional Authority Regions8
Italy IT Groups of regions5 Regions21 Provinces103
Luxembourg LU -1 -1 -1
Netherlands NE Landsdelen4 Provinces12 COROP regio's40
Portugal PT Continental Portugal1 Comissões de coordenação regional5 Groups of Concelhos30
Azores and Madeira2 -2 -2
Spain ES Groups of autonomous communities 7 Autonomous communities17 Provinces50
Ceuta and Melilla2-2
Sweden SE -1 National areas8 Counties21
United Kingdom UK Regions of England9 Groups of Counties; Inner and Outer London30 Unitary authorities or groups of districts93
Wales1 Groups of unitary authorities2 Groups of unitary authorities12
Scotland1 Groups of unitary authorities or LECs4 Groups of unitary authorities or LECs23
Northern Ireland1 Country1 Groups of districts5
EU-15 -72 -213 -1091


Cyprus CY -1 -1 -1
Czech Republic CZ -1 Groups of Kraje8 Kraje14
Estonia EE -1 -1 Groups of Maarkond5
Hungary HU -1 Statistical Regions7 Megyek & Budapest20
Latvia LV -1 -1 Regions5
Lithuania LT -1 -1 Apskritis10
Malta MT -1 -1 Islands2
Poland PL -1 Wojewodztwa16 Podregiony44
Slovakia SK -1 Zoskupenia Krajov4 Kraje8
Slovenia SI -1 -1 Statisitical Regions12

Examples

External links

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