Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics Totally Explained

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The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, (NUTS) for the French nomenclature d'unités territoriales statistiques, is a geocode standard for referencing the administrative divisions 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 (see also: Regions of the European Union). Eurostat also devised a hierarchy for the 10 countries that joined the EU in 2004, but these are subject to minor changes. The NUTS divisions don't necessarily correspond to administrative divisions within the country. A NUTS code begins with a two-letter code referencing the country, which is identical to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code (except UK instead of GB for the United Kingdom). The subdivision of the country is then referred to with 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.
   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 to the ISO 3166-2 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. These were called NUTS levels 4 and 5 until July 2003, but were officially abolished by regulation, although they're 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	Groups of states	3	States	9	Groups of Bezirks	35
Belgium	Regions	3	Provinces (+ Brussels Capital Region)	11	Arrondissements	43
Denmark	-	2	Regions	5	Groups of municipalities	11
Finland	Mainland Finland	1	Large areas	4	Regions	19
Finland	Åland	1	-	1	-	1
France	ZEAT	8	Régions	22	Départements	96
France	Overseas departments	1	Overseas departments	4	Département d'outre-mer	4
Germany	States (Länder or Bundesländer)	16	Regierungsbezirke	41	Districts (Kreise)	439
Greece	Groups of development regions	4	Peripheries	13	Prefectures	51
Ireland	-	1	Regions	2	Regional Authority Regions	8
Italy	Groups of regions	5	Regions	20	Provinces	103
Luxembourg	-	1	-	1	-	1
Netherlands	Landsdelen	4	Provinces	12	COROP regio's	40
Portugal	Continental Portugal	1	Comissões de coordenação regional	5	Groups of Municipalities	28
Portugal	Azores and Madeira	2	-	2	-	2
Spain	Groups of autonomous communities	7	Autonomous communities	17	Provinces	50
Spain	Groups of autonomous communities	7	Ceuta and Melilla	2	-	2
Sweden	-	1	National areas	8	Counties	21
United Kingdom	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	Regions	2	Planning Regions	6	Oblasts	28
Cyprus	-	1	-	1	-	1
Czech Republic	-	1	Groups of Regions	8	Regions	14
Estonia	-	1	-	1	Groups of Counties	5
Hungary	Groups of Regions	3	Regions	7	Counties + Budapest	20
Latvia	-	1	-	1	Regions	6
Lithuania	-	1	-	1	Counties	10
Malta	-	1	-	1	Islands	2
Poland	Groups of Voivodeships	6	Voivodeships of Poland	16	Podregiony (Groups of Powiats)	45
Romania	Macroregion	4	Regions	8	Counties and Bucharest	42
Slovakia	-	1	Groups of Regions	4	Regions	8
Slovenia	-	1	Groups of Regions	2	Statistical Regions	12
EU-27	-	95	-	268	-	1291
Croatia	-	1	Statistical Regions	3	Counties	21
Republic of Macedonia	-	1	-	1		8
Turkey	Group of Provinces(İller)	12	Group of Provinces(İller)	22	Provinces(İller)	81
EU-CC	-	14	-	26	-	110
Iceland	-	1	-	1	-	1
Liechtenstein	-	1	-	1	-	1
Norway	-	1		7		19
Switzerland	-	1	Regions	7	Cantons	26

Examples

DE: Germany
- DE7: Hesse - The Bundesland as the top level subdivision of Germany
  - DE71: Darmstadt region - Regierungsbezirk as second level
    - DE71E: Wetteraukreis - Kreis as the third level
  - AA: Asia
    - AA25: Thailand
  - US16: Kansas

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