First-level NUTS of the European Union

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The Classification 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.

There are three levels of NUTS defined, with two levels of local administrative units (LAUs). Depending on their size, not all countries have every level of division. One of the most extreme cases is Luxembourg, which has only LAUs; the three NUTS divisions each correspond to the entire country itself.

These are the first-level NUTS regions of the European Union.

Code	Name	Corresponding second-level NUTS	Map
AT	Austria
AT1	East Austria	Burgenland, Lower Austria, Vienna
AT2	South Austria	Carinthia, Styria
AT3	West Austria	Upper Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg
BE	Belgium
BE1	Brussels Capital Region	Brussels Capital Region
BE2	Flemish Region	Antwerp, Limburg, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant, West Flanders
BE3	Walloon Region	Walloon Brabant, Hainaut, Liège, Luxembourg, Namur
BG	Bulgaria
BG3	Northern and Eastern Bulgaria	Severozapaden, Severen tsentralen, Severoiztochen, Yugoiztochen
BG4	South-Western and South-Central Bulgaria	Yugozapaden, Yuzhen tsentralen
CY	Cyprus
CY0	Cyprus	Cyprus
CZ	Czech Republic
CZ0	Czech Republic	Prague, Central Bohemia, Southwest, Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Central Moravia, Moravia-Silesia
DE	Germany
DE1	Baden-Württemberg	Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Tübingen
DE2	Bavaria	Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria, Upper Palatinate, Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia, Swabia
DE3	Berlin	Berlin
DE4	Brandenburg	Brandenburg-Northeast, Brandenburg-Southwest
DE5	Free Hanseatic City of Bremen	Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
DE6	Hamburg	Hamburg
DE7	Hessen	Darmstadt, Gießen, Kassel
DE8	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
DE9	Lower Saxony	Braunschweig, Hanover, Lüneburg, Weser-Ems
DEA	North Rhine-Westphalia	Düsseldorf, Cologne, Münster, Detmold, Arnsberg
DEB	Rhineland-Palatinate	Koblenz, Trier, Rheinhessen-Pfalz
DEC	Saarland	Saarland
DED	Saxony	Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig
DEE	Saxony-Anhalt	Saxony-Anhalt
DEF	Schleswig-Holstein	Schleswig-Holstein
DEG	Thuringia	Thuringia
DK	Denmark
DK0	Denmark	Hovedstaden, Zealand, Region of Southern Denmark, Central Jutland, North Jutland
EE	Estonia
EE0	Estonia	Estonia
EL	Greece
EL3	Attica	Attica
EL4	Nisia Aigaiou, Kriti	North Aegean, South Aegean, Crete
EL5	Voreia Ellada	Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Central Macedonia, Western Macedonia, Epirus
EL6	Kentriki Ellada	Thessaly, Ionian Islands, Western Greece, Central Greece, Peloponnese
ES	Spain
ES1	North West	Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria
ES2	North East	Basque Community, Navarre, La Rioja, Aragon
ES3	Community of Madrid	Community of Madrid
ES4	Centre	Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura
ES5	East	Catalonia, Valencian Community, Balearic Islands
ES6	South	Andalusia, Region of Murcia, Ceuta, Melilla
ES7	Canary Islands	Canary Islands
FI	Finland
FI1	Mainland Finland	East Finland, South Finland, West Finland, North Finland
FI2	Åland	Åland
FR	France
FR1	Île-de-France	Île-de-France
FRB	Centre-Val de Loire	Centre-Val de Loire
FRC	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	Bourgogne, Franche-Comté
FRD	Normandy	Lower Normandy, Upper Normandy
FRE	Hauts-de-France	Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardy
FRF	Grand-Est	Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne, Lorraine
FRG	Pays de la Loire	Pays de la Loire
FRH	Brittany	Brittany
FRI	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	Aquitaine, Limousin, Poitou-Charentes
FRJ	Occitanie	Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées
FRK	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	Auvergne, Rhône-Alpes
FRL	Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur	Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
FRM	Corsica	Corsica
FRA	Départements d'Outre Mer	French Guiana, Guadeloupe (including Saint Martin), Martinique, Mayotte, La Réunion
HR	Croatia
HR0	Croatia	Continental Croatia, Adriatic Croatia
HU	Hungary
HU1	Central Hungary	Central Hungary
HU2	Transdanubia	Central Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia, Southern Transdanubia
HU3	Great Plain and North	Northern Hungary, Northern Great Plain, Southern Great Plain
IE	Ireland
IE0	Ireland	Border, Midland and Western, Southern and Eastern
IT	Italy
ITC	North West	Aosta Valley, Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont
ITH	North East	Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Veneto
ITI	Centre	Lazio, Marche, Tuscany, Umbria
ITF	South	Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise
ITG	Islands	Sardinia, Sicily
LT	Lithuania
LT0	Lithuania	Lithuania
LU	Luxembourg
LU0	Luxembourg	Luxembourg
LV	Latvia
LV0	Latvia	Latvia
MT	Malta
MT0	Malta	Malta
NL	Netherlands
NL1	North Netherlands	Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe
NL2	East Netherlands	Overijssel, Gelderland, Flevoland
NL3	West Netherlands	Utrecht, North Holland, South Holland, Zeeland
NL4	South Netherlands	North Brabant, Limburg
PL	Poland
PL2	South Macroregion	Lesser Poland, Silesian
PL4	North-west Macroregion	Greater Poland, Lubusz, West Pomeranian
PL5	South-west Macroregion	Lower Silesian, Opole
PL6	North Macroregion	Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Pomeranian, Warmian-Masurian
PL7	Central Macroregion	Holy Cross, Łódź
PL8	East Macroregion	Lublin, Podlaskie, Subcarpathian
PL9	Masovian Macroregion	Masovian
PT	Portugal
PT1	Continental Portugal	Norte, Algarve, Centro, Lisbon, Alentejo
PT2	Azores	Azores
PT3	Madeira	Madeira
RO	Romania
RO1	Macroregion One	Nord-Vest, Centru
RO2	Macroregion Two	Nord-Est, Sud-Est
RO3	Macroregion Three	Sud – Muntenia, București – Ilfov
RO4	Macroregion Four	Sud-Vest Oltenia, Vest
SE	Sweden
SE1	East Sweden	Stockholm County, East Middle Sweden
SE2	South Sweden	Småland and the islands, South Sweden, West Sweden
SE3	North Sweden	North Middle Sweden, Middle Norrland, Upper Norrland
SI	Slovenia
SI0	Slovenia	Eastern Slovenia, Western Slovenia
SK	Slovakia
SK0	Slovakia	Bratislava Region, Western Slovakia, Central Slovakia, Eastern Slovakia

Former member states[]

Below are the first-level NUTS regions of former member states of the European Union.

Code	Name	Corresponding second-level NUTS	Map
UK	United Kingdom
UKC	North East	Tees Valley & Durham, Northumberland & Tyne and Wear
UKD	North West	Cumbria, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside
UKE	Yorkshire and the Humber	East Yorkshire & Northern Lincolnshire (Humberside), North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
UKF	East Midlands	Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire
UKG	West Midlands	Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands
UKH	East of England	East Anglia (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk), Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex
UKI	Greater London	Inner London – West, Inner London – East, Outer London – East and North East, Outer London – South, Outer London – West and North West
UKJ	South East	Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent
UKK	South West	Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Bristol, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
UKL	Wales	West Wales, The Valleys, East Wales
UKM	Scotland	Eastern Scotland, South Western Scotland, North Eastern Scotland, Highlands and Islands
UKN	Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland

EFTA member states[]

Below are the first-level NUTS regions of EFTA.

Code	Name	Corresponding second-level NUTS	Map
CH	Switzerland
CH0	Switzerland	Lake Geneva region, Espace Mittelland, Northwestern Switzerland, Canton of Zürich, Eastern Switzerland, Central Switzerland, Canton of Ticino
IS	Iceland
IS0	Iceland	Iceland
LI	Liechtenstein
LI0	Liechtenstein	Liechtenstein
NO	Norway
NO0	Norway	Oslo og Akershus, Innlandet, Sør-Østlandet, Agder og Rogaland, Vestlandet, Trøndelag, Nord-Norge

EU Candidates[]

Below are the first-level NUTS regions of candidates of the European Union.

Code	Name	Corresponding second-level NUTS	Map
AL	Albania
AL0	Albania	Northern Albania, Central Albania, Southern Albania
ME	Montenegro
MEO	Montenegro	Montenegro
MK	North Macedonia
MK0	North Macedonia	North Macedonia
TR	Turkey
TR1	Istanbul Region	Istanbul Subregion
TR2	West Marmara Region	Balıkesir Subregion, Tekirdağ Subregion
TR3	Aegean Region	Aydın Subregion, Izmir Subregion, Manisa Subregion
TR4	East Marmara Region	Bursa Subregion, Kocaeli Subregion
TR5	West Anatolia Region	Ankara Subregion, Konya Subregion
TR6	Mediterranean Region	Adana Subregion, Antalya Subregion, Hatay Subregion
TR7	Central Anatolia Region	Kayseri Subregion, Kırıkkale Subregion
TR8	West Black Sea Region	Kastamonu Subregion, Samsun Subregion, Zonguldak Subregion
TR9	East Black Sea Region	Trabzon Subregion
TRA	Northeast Anatolia Region	Ağrı Subregion, Erzurum Subregion
TRB	Central East Anatolia Region	Malatya Subregion, Van Subregion
TRC	Southeast Anatolia Region	Gaziantep Subregion, Mardin Subregion, Şanlıurfa Subregion

See also[]

• Local government
• Regional policy of the European Union
• Region (Europe)

External links[]

• Europa – Eurostat – Regions
• Overview maps of the NUTS and Statistical Regions of Europe – Overview map of EU Countries – NUTS level 1 [Archive]
• The 104 NUTS-1 EU Regions of 2016 to present