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

NUTS-1

NUTS-2

NUTS-3

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