The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Switzerland for statistical purposes.[1] As a member of EFTA Switzerland is included in the NUTS standard, although the standard is developed and regulated by the European Union,[2] 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:

Level Subdivisions #
NUTS-1 Entire Country 1
NUTS-2 Regions 7
NUTS-3 Cantons 26

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 Code
  SwitzerlandCH0 Lake Geneva regionCH01  VaudCH011
 ValaisCH012
 GenevaCH013
Espace MittellandCH02  BerneCH021
 FribourgCH022
 SolothurnCH023
 NeuchâtelCH024
 JuraCH025
Northwestern SwitzerlandCH03  Basel-StadtCH031
 Basel-LandschaftCH032
 AargauCH033
ZurichCH04  ZürichCH040
Eastern SwitzerlandCH05  GlarusCH051
 SchaffhausenCH052
 Appenzell AusserrhodenCH053
 Appenzell InnerrhodenCH054
 St. GallenCH055
 GrisonsCH056
 ThurgauCH057
Central SwitzerlandCH06  LucerneCH061
 UriCH062
 SchwyzCH063
 ObwaldenCH064
 NidwaldenCH065
 ZugCH066
TicinoCH07  TicinoCH070

Local Administrative Units

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

LAU-1: Districts

LAU-2: Municipalities

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Revision to the Irish NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions". cso.ie. Archived from the original on 2018-11-13. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  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)

See also


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