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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[edit]

The three NUTS levels are:

NUTS codes[edit]

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
Switzerland	CH0	Lake Geneva region	CH01	Vaud	CH011
				Valais	CH012
				Geneva	CH013
		Espace Mittelland	CH02	Berne	CH021
				Fribourg	CH022
				Solothurn	CH023
				Neuchâtel	CH024
				Jura	CH025
		Northwestern Switzerland	CH03	Basel-Stadt	CH031
				Basel-Landschaft	CH032
				Aargau	CH033
		Zurich	CH04	Zürich	CH040
		Eastern Switzerland	CH05	Glarus	CH051
				Schaffhausen	CH052
				Appenzell Ausserrhoden	CH053
				Appenzell Innerrhoden	CH054
				St. Gallen	CH055
				Grisons	CH056
				Thurgau	CH057
		Central Switzerland	CH06	Lucerne	CH061
				Uri	CH062
				Schwyz	CH063
				Obwalden	CH064
				Nidwalden	CH065
				Zug	CH066
		Ticino	CH07	Ticino	CH070

Local Administrative Units[edit]

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

LAU-1: Districts[edit]

LAU-2: Municipalities[edit]

Notes and references[edit]

See also[edit]

• Subdivisions of Switzerland
• ISO 3166-2 codes of Switzerland
• FIPS region codes of Switzerland
• Comparison of ISO, FIPS, and NUTS codes of the cantons of Switzerland
• List of regions of Switzerland by Human Development Index

External links[edit]

• Hierarchical list of the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics - NUTS and the Statistical regions of Europe
• Overview map of EFTA countries - Statistical regions at level 1
  • SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA - Statistical regions at level 2
  • SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA - Statistical regions at level 3
• Correspondence between the regional levels and the national administrative units
• Cantons of Switzerland, Statoids.com