EEA geospatial data catalogue
GISCO - Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics 2021 (NUTS 2021), Jan. 2020
The 'GISCO NUTS 2021' data set represents the NUTS 2021 regulation and statistical regions by means of multipart polygon, polyline and point topology. The NUTS geographical information is completed by attribute tables and a set of cartographic help lines to better visualize multipart polygonal regions.
The NUTS nomenclature is a hierarchical classification of statistical regions defined by Eurostat. The NUTS classification subdivides the EU economic territory into 3 statistical levels. The NUTS 2021 classification has been established through the Commission Delegated Regulation 2019/1755, which entered into force on 8th August 2019 and applies from 1st January 2021. A non official NUTS-like classification has been defined for the EFTA countries and the candidate countries.
At present, six scale ranges (100K, 1M, 3M, 10M and 20M, 60M) are maintained in the GISCO geodatabase. The polygon and boundary classes delineate the regions, while the points provide an anchor for each region. Associated tables contain basic information such as the name of the region. The public data set will be available at 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M, while the full data set at 100K is restricted.
The data set covers EU Member States, EFTA countries, EU candidate countries and the UK. Following the departure of the UK from the European Union, the UK is no longer flagged as an EU Member State but retains its place in the NUTS and statistical regions data set.
This metadata only refers to the full NUTS2021 dataset (polygons) at 100k (NUTS_RG_100K_2021), which is derived from the EuroBoundary Map 2020 (EBM2020) from Eurogeographics as well as GISCO NUTS 2016 (from Türkiye). With the dataset it is also provided the table NUTS_AT_2021.dbf and an excel file NUTS2016-NUTS2021.xlsx with the list of changes between 2016 and 2021.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Additional information, including the conditions of use and acknowledgement notice is included in the document provided with the dataset "GISCO NUTS 2021 Additional Information.pdf". Public access to this data set is restricted due to intellectual property rights. It shall only be used internally by the EEA, its ETCs and subcontractors working on behalf of the EEA. This metadata has been slightly adapted from the original metadata information provided by Eurostat (European Commission) and is to be used only for internal EEA purposes.
An introduction to the NUTS classification is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/overview.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2020-01-30
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eurostat_v_4258_100_k_gisco-nuts-2021_i_2021_v01_r00
- Status
- Superseded
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords
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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Bulgaria
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Italy
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Lithuania
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North Macedonia
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United Kingdom
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Spain
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Iceland
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Romania
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Norway
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Germany
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Hungary
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Greece
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Netherlands
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Cyprus
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France
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Estonia
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Ireland
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Türkiye
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Belgium
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Switzerland
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Latvia
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Malta
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Albania
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Slovenia
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Sweden
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Luxembourg
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Serbia
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Czechia
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Liechtenstein
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Croatia
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Poland
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Finland
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Denmark
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Portugal
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Montenegro
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Austria
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Slovakia
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- Keywords
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GEMET
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national boundary
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administrative boundary
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sub-national boundary
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statistical information system
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statistical information
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Statistical units
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Access to this data set is restricted to the personnel of the European Commission and its contractors. Public access to the full data set is not possible due to intellectual property rights. Use is allowed inside the European Commission. However, the data set can be freely distributed if the spatial resolution is 1:1.000.000 or smaller, or less than 20% of the data relevant to the displayed area is shown.The source and intellectual property have always to be acknowledged. To this end, an acknowledgement as specified below must be visible on any printed or electronic publication using the data. In English, the acknowledgement notice is "Administrative boundaries: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat. Source: European Commission – Eurostat/GISCO". More information in the document "GISCO NUTS 2021 Additional Information.pdf" provided with the dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 100000
- Language of dataset
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
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- Begin
- End
- Coordinate reference system identifier
- EPSG:4258
- Distribution format
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- SHP ( 1)
OnLine resource
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Statement
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This dataset is based on: EuroBoundaryMap (EBM) 2020 from EuroGeographics (scale of 1:100.000) and NUTS 2016 dataset for Türkiye. The different scale levels (1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M, here not provided) were derived by generalisation of the 100K scale. For more information about the data sources, the data model and attributes, data quality checks and relations with other GISCO data sets please refer to the document provided with the dataset "GISCO NUTS 2021 Additional Information.pdf".
Metadata
- File identifier
- 60719905-dd2c-4c65-997b-4b9f25bc42d7 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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Service
- Date stamp
- 2023-09-06T09:42:11.399Z
- Metadata standard name
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INSPIRE Metadata Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008
- Metadata standard version
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03.12.2008
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