Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) - Statistical Units - Data sets (2003 - 2021)

The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a hierarchical classification of statistical regions and subdivides the EU economic territory into regions of four different levels (NUTS 0, 1, 2 and 3, moving respectively from larger to smaller territorial units). NUTS 1 is the most aggregated level. An additional Country level (NUTS 0) is also available for countries where the the nation at statistical level does not coincide with the administrative boundaries. For example Mt Athos in Greece and Mellum and Minsener Ogg in Germany. The NUTS classification has been officially established through Regulation (EC) No 2016/2066 of the European Parliament and of the Council and its amendments. A non-official NUTS-like classification has been defined for the EFTA countries and candidate countries. An introduction to the NUTS classification is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/overview.

The datasets are based on: EuroBoundaryMap (EBM) from EuroGeographics (scale of 1:100.000), Global Administrative Unit Layer (GAUL) country data from UN/FAO, data from the National Statistical Institute of Turkey (TurkStat) (might vary for different years). The different scale levels were derived by generalisation of the 100K scale.

The public datasets are available under the Download link indicated below. Available scales are: 100k, 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M.

Date of the NUTS regions are currently available for the years 2003, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2021.

The full datasets are available via the EC restricted download link. Here six scale ranges (100K, 1M, 3M, 10M and 20M, 60M) are available. Coverage is the economic territory of the EU, EFTA countries and candidate countries as in the respective year.

Simple

Date ( Publication )
2020-01-20
Identifier
NUTS21

Date ( Creation )
2020-01-20

Identifier
NUTS16

Date ( Creation )
2018-03-20

Identifier
NUTS13

Date ( Creation )
2015-12-03

Identifier
NUTS10

Date ( Creation )
2011-12-21

Identifier
NUTS06

Date ( Creation )
2008-01-01

Identifier
er0caf5ed0-34c6-489e-82f1-78e7eb96d1c2

Date ( Publication )
2007-06-01

Status
On going
Point of contact
European Commission, Eurostat (ESTAT), GISCO - ( )

Keywords ( Theme )
  • NUTS
  • MOOD-H2020
Keywords ( Place )
  • Europe
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Administrative units
Keywords
  • INSPIREGEOPORTAL
Use limitation
The European Commission, its Executive Agencies and European Environmental Agency may use the dataset under the following usage restrictions: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/display/GISCO/License+conditions+for+EuroGeographics+Administrative+and+Topographic+spatial+datasets. Contractors of the European Commission, its Executive Agencies and EEA can access the data after signing an agreement form. The agreement form can be requested by the responsible service from European Commission – Eurostat/GISCO ESTAT-GISCO@ec.europa.eu. Once the form has been signed, access will be provided by European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO.
Use limitation
non-commercial use
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Use constraints
Copyright
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Other constraints

In addition to the general copyright and licence policy applicable to the whole Eurostat website, the following specific provisions apply to the datasets you are downloading. The download and usage of these data is subject to the acceptance of the following clauses:

The Commission agrees to grant the non-exclusive and not transferable right to use and process the Eurostat/GISCO geographical data downloaded from this page (the "data").

The permission to use the data is granted on condition that:

- the data will not be used for commercial purposes;

- the source will be acknowledged. A copyright notice, as specified below, will have to be visible on any printed or electronic publication using the data downloaded from this page.

Copyright notice

When data downloaded from this page is used in any printed or electronic publication, in addition to any other provisions applicable to the whole Eurostat website, data source will have to be acknowledged in the legend of the map and in the introductory page of the publication with the following copyright notice:

EN: © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries

(https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units)
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
100000
Denominator
60000000
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
  • Boundaries
  • Society
Description
Europe
N
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E
W
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Reference system identifier
WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857)
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Reference system identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
Distribution format
  • Shapefile ( )

  • TopoJSON ( )

  • geoJSON ( )

  • GDB ( )

  • SVG ( )

OnLine resource
NUTS 2003 - 2021 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--download )

NUTS 2003 - 2021

OnLine resource
NUTS 2003 - 2021 (via REST API) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--download )

NUTS 2003 - 2021 (via REST API)

OnLine resource
EU Login ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--download )

EU Login

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Other citation details
http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1089/2014-12-31
Explanation
See specified reference
Pass
Yes
Statement

Based on EuroBoundaryMap (EBM) from EuroGeographics (scale of 1:100.000), Global Administrative Unit Layer (GAUL) country data from UN/FAO, data from the National Statistical Institute of Turkey (TurkStat) and others. The different scale levels were derived by generalisation of the 100K scale.

Specific information for the individual NUT datasets: https://gisco-services.ec.europa.eu/distribution/v2/nuts/

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier
4b6369cc-3db4-4aa5-9cbe-4058fc63d0df XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2021-10-25T11:57:15
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
European Commission, Eurostat (ESTAT), GISCO - ( )

Point of contact
mundialis GmbH & Co. KG -

https://www.mundialis.de/

Citation proposal


(2020) . Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) - Statistical Units - Data sets (2003 - 2021).
https://data.opendatascience.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/4b6369cc-3db4-4aa5-9cbe-4058fc63d0df

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NUTS Level 2, 2021 (EPSG:4326)

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