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 municipalities.
Overall The three NUTS levels are: +LevelSubdivisions#NUTS-1Entire Country1NUTS-2Regions7NUTS-3Cantons26
NUTS codes
The NUTS codes are as follows:
Diagram of the National (NUTS-1) and Regional (NUTS-2) borders of Switzerland NUTS 1 Code NUTS 2 Code NUTS 3 CodeCH0Lake Geneva regionCH01CH011CH012CH013Espace MittellandCH02CH021CH022CH023CH024CH025Northwestern SwitzerlandCH03CH031CH032CH033ZurichCH04CH040Eastern SwitzerlandCH05CH051CH052CH053CH054CH055CH056CH057Central SwitzerlandCH06CH061CH062CH063CH064CH065CH066TicinoCH07CH070
Local Administrative Units Below the NUTS levels, there are Local Administrative Units (LAU)
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