The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Estonia for statistical purposes.[1] The standard is developed and regulated by the European Union.[2] The NUTS standard is instrumental in delivering the European Union's Structural Funds. The NUTS code for Estonia is EE 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 Estonia, the LAU 1 is counties and the LAU 2 are municipalities.

Overall

NUTS Codes

Level Subdivisions #
NUTS 1 1
NUTS 2 1
NUTS 3 Groups of counties (Groups of Maakond) 5

Local administrative units

Below the NUTS levels, the two LAU (Local Administrative Units) levels are:

Level Subdivisions #
LAU 1 Counties (Maakond) 15
LAU 2 Municipalities (Vald, linn) 79

The LAU codes of Estonia can be downloaded here:

NUTS codes

NUTS 1 Code NUTS 2 Code NUTS 3 Code
Estonia EE0 Estonia EE00 Põhja-Eesti EE001
Lääne-Eesti EE004
Kesk-Eesti EE006
Kirde-Eesti EE007
Lõuna-Eesti EE008

NUTS 3

EE0 Estonia
EE00 Estonia
EE001 Põhja-Eesti (Harju County)
EE004 Lääne-Eesti (Hiiu County, Lääne County, Pärnu County, Saare County)
EE006 Kesk-Eesti (Järva County, Lääne-Viru County, Rapla County)
EE007 Kirde-Eesti (Ida-Viru County)
EE008 Lõuna-Eesti (Jõgeva County, Põlva County, Tartu County, Valga County, Viljandi County, Võru County)

See also

References

  1. "Revision to the Irish NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions". cso.ie. Archived from the original on 2018-11-13. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  2. Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2066 of 21 November 2016 amending the annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS)

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