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	AT	Groups of states	3	States	9	Groups of Bezirks	35
Belgium	BE	Regions	3	Provinces	11	Arrondissements	43
Denmark	DK	-	1	-	1	Counties	15
Finland	FI	Mainland Finland	1	Large areas	4	Regions	19
		Åland	1	-	1	-	1
France	FR	ZEAT	8	Regions	22	Départements	96
		Overseas departments	1	Overseas departments	4	Département d'outre-mer	4
Germany	DE	States	16	Regierungsbezirke	41	Districts	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	21	Provinces	103
Luxembourg	LU	-	1	-	1	-	1
Netherlands	NE	Landsdelen	4	Provinces	12	COROP regio's	40
Portugal	PT	Continental Portugal	1	Comissões de coordenação regional	5	Groups of Concelhos	30
		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	-	1	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	Country	1	Groups of districts	5
EU-15		-	72	-	213	-	1091
Cyprus	CY	-	1	-	1	-	1
Czech Republic	CZ	-	1	Groups of Kraje	8	Kraje	14
Estonia	EE	-	1	-	1	Groups of Maarkond	5
Hungary	HU	-	1	Statistical Regions	7	Megyek & Budapest	20
Latvia	LV	-	1	-	1	Regions	5
Lithuania	LT	-	1	-	1	Apskritis	10
Malta	MT	-	1	-	1	Islands	2
Poland	PL	-	1	Wojewodztwa	16	Podregiony	44
Slovakia	SK	-	1	Zoskupenia Krajov	4	Kraje	8
Slovenia	SI	-	1	-	1	Statisitical Regions	12

Examples

• DE000: Germany
  • DE700: Hesse - The Bundesland as the top level subdivision of Germany
    • DE710: Darmstadt region - Regierungsbezirk as second level
      • DE71E: Wetteraukreis - Kreis as the third level
• AA: Asia
  • AA25: Thailand
• US16: Kansas

External links

• Correspondence between the NUTS levels and the national administrative units — Eurostat
• NUTS Statistical Regions of Europe — Eurostat
• Hierarchical list of the NUTS (EU-15) — Eurostat
• Hierarchy in EFTA, Accession and Candidate countries — Eurostat
• List of NUTS codes (World Wide) — European Union