Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, (NUTS) for the French nomenclature d'unités territoriales statistiques, is a geocode standard that shows the administrative divisions of countries for statistical purposes. It was made by the European Union, so it only covers the member states of that union in detail. 

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

In addition 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, provinces, and territories are numbered separately.

Some are not easily classified: 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, in some ways are similar to the ISO 3166-2 standard, as well as the FIPS standard of the United States.

 Levels 
There are three levels of NUTS. Some with two levels of local administrative units (LAUs) below. These were called NUTS levels 4 and 5 until July 2003, but were changed due to official regulations  although they are sometimes still described as such. Note that not all countries have every level of division, depending on their size. One of the most extreme cases is Luxembourg, which 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 states 3 States 9 Groups of Bezirks 35 Belgium BE Regions 3 Provinces (+ Brussels Capital Region) 11 Arrondissements 43 Denmark DK - 2 Regions 5 Groups of municipalities 11 Finland FI Mainland Finland 1 Large areas 4 Regions 20 Åland 1 - 1 - 1 France FR ZEAT 8 Régions 22 Départements 96 Overseas departments 1 Overseas departments 4 Département d'outre-mer 4 Germany DE States (Länder or Bundesländer) 16 Regierungsbezirke 41 Districts (Kreise) 439 Greece GR Groups of development regions 4 Peripheries 13 Prefectures 51 Ireland IE - 1 Regions 2 Regional Authority Regions 8 Italy IT Groups of regions 5 Regions 20 Provinces 110 Luxembourg LU - 1 - 1 - 1 Netherlands NL Landsdelen 4 Provinces 12 COROP regio's 40 Portugal PT Continental Portugal 1 Comissões de coordenação regional 5 Groups of Municipalities 28 Azores and Madeira 2 - 2 - 2 Spain ES Groups of autonomous communities 7 Autonomous communities 17 Provinces 50 Ceuta and Melilla 2 - 2 Sweden SE - 3 National areas 8 Counties 21 United Kingdom UK Regions of England 9 Groups of Counties; Inner and Outer London 30 Unitary authorities or groups of districts 93 Wales 1 Groups of unitary authorities 2 Groups of unitary authorities 12 Scotland 1 Groups of unitary authorities or LECs 4 Groups of unitary authorities or LECs 23 Northern Ireland 1 County 1 Groups of districts 5 EU-15 - 72 - 213 - 1091 Bulgaria BG Regions 2 Planning Regions 6 Oblasts 28 Cyprus CY - 1 - 1 - 1 Czech Republic CZ - 1 Groups of Regions 8 Regions 14 Estonia EE - 1 - 1 Groups of Counties 5 Hungary HU Groups of Regions 3 Regions 7 Counties + Budapest 20 Latvia LV - 1 - 1 Regions 6 Lithuania LT - 1 - 1 Counties 10 Malta MT - 1 - 1 Islands 2 Poland PL Groups of Voivodeships 6 Voivodeships of Poland 16 Podregiony (Groups of Powiats) 45 Romania RO Macroregion 4 Regions 8 Counties and Bucharest 42 Slovakia SK - 1 Groups of Regions 4 Regions 8 Slovenia SI - 1 Groups of Regions 2 Statistical Regions 12 EU-27 - 95 - 268 - 1291 Croatia HR - 1 Statistical Regions 3 Counties 21 Republic of Macedonia MK - 1 - 1 8 Turkey TR Group of Provinces(İller) 12 Group of Provinces(İller) 22 Provinces(İller) 81 EU-CC - 14 - 26 - 110 Iceland IS - 1 - 1 - 1 Liechtenstein LI - 1 - 1 - 1 Norway NO - 1 7 19 Switzerland CH - 1 Regions 7 Cantons 26

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