NUTS is the abbreviation of the
French
name nomenclature d'unités
territoriales statistiques) and is a geocode
standard
for referencing the
subdivisions of
countries
for statistical purposes.
NUTS codes have a hierarchic structure of three levels, where the regions in NUTS-1 represent the highest hierarchy, plus two
more levels of administrative units (LAU) also called NUTS levels 4 and 5. |