Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) 2010-Statistical Units-Dataset

This dataset represents the regions for level1, 2 and 3 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) for 2010. The NUTS nomenclature is a hierarchical classification of statistical regions and subdivides the EU economic territory into regions of three different levels (NUTS 1, 2 and 3, respectively, moving from larger to smaller territorial units). NUTS 1 is the most aggregated level. The NUTS classification has been officially established through Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and 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://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/nuts_nomenclature/introduction](http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/nuts_nomenclature/introduction). his data set has been created mainly from the EuroBoundary Map v 5.0 (Eurogeographics), geographic information from TurkStat for Turkey, the Global Administrative Unit Layer from FAO (UN) for Macedonia and a list of communes per statistical region provided by the countries. The public data set is available under the "Download link" indicated below. Available scales are 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M).