The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Switzerland for statistical purposes. As a member of EFTA Switzerland is included in the NUTS standard, although the standard is developed and regulated by the European Union, an organization that Switzerland does not belong to. The NUTS standard is instrumental in delivering the European Union's Structural Funds. The NUTS code for Switzerland is CH and a hierarchy of three levels is established by Eurostat. Below these is a further levels of geographic organisation - the local administrative unit (LAU). In Switzerland, the LAUs are districts (LAU-1) and municipalities (LAU-2).
Overall
The three NUTS levels are:
NUTS codes
The NUTS codes are as follows:
Local Administrative Units
Below the NUTS levels, there are two Local Administrative Units (LAU) levels
LAU-1: Districts
LAU-2: Municipalities
Notes and references
See also
Subdivisions of Switzerland
ISO 3166-2 codes of Switzerland
FIPS region codes of Switzerland
Comparison of ISO, FIPS, and NUTS codes of the cantons of Switzerland
List of regions of Switzerland by Human Development Index
External links
Hierarchical list of the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics - NUTS and the Statistical regions of Europe Overview map of EFTA countries - Statistical regions at level 1 SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA - Statistical regions at level 2 SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA - Statistical regions at level 3 Correspondence between the regional levels and the national administrative units Cantons of Switzerland, Statoids.com