EEA geospatial data catalogue
EEA administrative boundaries based on GISCO NUTS 2021 and EBM 2022 - internal version, vector, Apr. 2022
This metadata refers to a harmonised EEA administrative boundaries vector layer based on the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS0, NUTS1, NUTS2, and NUTS3) in its 2021 classification extended to statistical regions of non-EU countries in Europe, i.e. it covers EEA38 member countries, United Kingdom and Gibraltar, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco and the Vatican City (EEA38+). This dataset has been created mainly for visualization purposes.
This dataset is based on the Eurostat GISCO database (extracted in May 2021), in particular on the layer NUTS 2021 at 100:000 scale for the main countries complemented by part of additional layers as EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) 2021, and EuroGeographics' EuroBoundaryMap 2022 dataset.
The EEA-adapted metadata of the data sources, GISCO NUTS 2021 and EBM 2022, can be consulted in the EEA SDI data catalogue.The public metadata for NUTS 2021 released by Eurostat is available here: https://gisco-services.ec.europa.eu/distribution/v2/nuts/nuts-2021-metadata.xml. An introduction to the NUTS classification is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/overview. More information about EuroBoundaryMap can be found here: https://eurogeographics.org/maps-for-europe/ebm/ .
IMPORTANT NOTE: 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.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-01-30
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-04-30
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_100_k_adm-boundaries-eea38-plus_i_2018-2020_v01_r00
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 100000
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2018-12-31 2020-12-31
Extent
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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San Marino
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United Kingdom
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Vatican
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Monaco
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EEA38 (from 2020)
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Andorra
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Gibraltar
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
Resource constraints
- 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 dataset 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.
Acknowledgement notice, depending on the language used in the publication:
English: Administrative boundaries: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Source: European Commission – Eurostat/GISCO
French: Limites administratives: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Source: Commission Européenne – Eurostat/GISCO
German: Verwaltungsgrenzen: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Quelle: Europäische Kommission - Eurostat/GISCO
- Language
- English
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
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
Resource lineage
- Statement
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The EEA38+ dataset is a harmonized version of the administrative boundaries based on the official GISCO NUTS 2021 layer (based in turn mostly on EuroBoundaryMap 2020, with reference year 2018). It covers all EEA38 member countries, plus extra NUTS regions, namely United Kingdom and Gibraltar, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco, and Vatican City. The dataset is based on the GISCO release May 2021 on the layer NUTS 100k for the main countries while extra countries (e.g. Bosnia and Montenegro) are derived from parts of additional layers from the same database as the Exclusive Economic Zones (GISCO, 2021) and EuroBoundaryMap 2022 (with reference year 2020).
The dataset has been created to be used in EEA applications for visualizing data and information disaggregated by European administrative boundaries.
The attribute table provides two code standards for aggregating the NUTS by country level. Specifically, the field "ISO2" referrers to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2], and the field "ESTAT" which refers to the Eurostat recommendations [https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Tutorial:Country_codes_and_protocol_order#Codes.2C_names_and_protocol_order_of_European_Union_.28EU.29_Member_States]. The field “ADM_COUNTR” provides the full name of the country following the ESTAT code .
Finally, the attribute table presents a set of fields, one per each aggregated country code [ https://taskman.eionet.europa.eu/projects/public-docs/wiki/Country_codes] with a Boolean expression, '1' means that the region belongs to the country group, while '0' it does not .
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 044ca3ed-2b60-4cac-9070-e8d353750e18
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/044ca3ed-2b60-4cac-9070-e8d353750e18
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-04-21T07:47:50.013Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-11-26T08:08:22.510327Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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