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 joind 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.

Table of contents
1 Levels
2 Examples
3 External links

Levels

There are three levels of NUTS defined, with two levels of local administrative units (LAUs) below that. 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 Groups of states3 States9 Groups of Bezirks35

Belgium Regions3 Provinces11 Arrondissements43

Denmark -1 -1 Counties15

Finland Mainland Finland1 Large areas4 Regions19

Ĺland1 -1 -1

France ZEAT8 Regions22 Départements96

Overseas departments1 Overseas departments4 Département d'outre-mer4

Germany States16 Regierungsbezirke41 Districts439

Greece Groups of development regions4 Peripheries13 Prefectures51

Ireland -1 Regions2 Regional Authority Regions8

Italy Groups of regions5 Regions21 Provinces103

Luxembourg -1 -1 -1

Netherlands Landsdelen4 Provinces12 COROP regio's40

Portugal Continental Portugal1 Comissões de coordenação regional;5 Groups of Concelhos30

Azores and Madeira2 -2 -2

Spain Groups of autonomous communities 7 Autonomous communities17 Provinces50

Ceuta and Melilla2-2

Sweden -1 National areas8 Counties21

United Kingdom 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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