What is Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics?
The '''Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics''', ('''NUTS''') for the [[French language|French]] '''nomenclature d'unités territoriales statistiques''', is a [[geocode]] [[standardization|standard]] that shows the [[administrative]] [[divisions]] of [[country|countries]] for [[statistical]] purposes. It was made by the [[European Union]], so it only covers the member states of that union in detail. A NUTS code begins with a two-letter code referencing the country, and is identical to the [[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2]] code (the only difference is ''UK'' instead of ''GB'' for the [[United Kingdom]]). The subdivision of the country is then displayed by one number. A second or third subdivision level is referred to with another number each. Each numbering starts with 1, as 0 is used for the upper level. In case the subdivision has more than 9 entities, capital letters are used to continue the numbering. In addition to the full three levels for the European Union countries, all countries have a NUTS code with a two-letter code for a [[continent]] and two numbers for the country, and for the [[USA]], [[Canada]] and [[Australia]] the states, provinces, and territories are numbered separately. Some are not easily classified: for example, [[Gibraltar]] is listed as being outside the EU with the code EO21; while [[French Guiana]] is listed twice, once in [[France]] as FR930 and once in [[South America]] as AS13. NUTS, in some ways are similar to the [[ISO 3166-2]] standard, as well as the [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS]] standard of the United States. == Levels == [[File:NUTS 1 regions EU-28.svg|thumb|300px|NUTS-1]] [[File:NUTS 2 regions EU-27.svg|thumb|300px|NUTS-2]] [[File:NUTS 3 regions EU-27.svg|thumb|300px|NUTS-3]] There are three levels of NUTS. Some with two levels of [[local administrative unit]]s (LAUs) below. These were called NUTS levels 4 and 5 until July 2003, but were changed due to official regulations although they are sometimes still described as such. Note that not all countries