NUTS:HU

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The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a subdivision system for statistical purposes for the whole European Union devised by Eurostat.

At NUTS:1 level, Hungary is subdivided into three parts. NUTS:2 level consists of seven regions of Hungary, while at NUTS:3 level (the lowest) the subdivisions match up with the individual counties of Hungary plus the capital, Budapest. As of Jan. 1st, 2007. the LAU 1 level (formerly known as NUTS:4) consists of 168 sub-regions and the LAU 2 level (a.k.a. NUTS:5) is made up of 3152 localities (towns and villages).

NUTS 1		NUTS 2		NUTS 3
Division	Code	Large Areas	Code	Regions	Code
Central Hungary	HU1	Central Hungary	HU10	Budapest	HU101
				Pest	HU102
Transdanubia	HU2	Central Transdanubia	HU21	Fejér	HU211
				Komárom-Esztergom	HU212
				Veszprém	HU213
		Western Transdanubia	HU22	Győr-Moson-Sopron	HU221
				Vas	HU222
				Zala	HU223
		Southern Transdanubia	HU23	Baranya	HU231
				Somogy	HU232
				Tolna	HU233
Great Plain and North	HU3	Northern Hungary	HU31	Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén	HU311
				Heves	HU312
				Nógrád	HU313
		Northern Great Plain	HU32	Hajdú-Bihar	HU321
				Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok	HU322
				Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg	HU323
		Southern Great Plain	HU33	Bács-Kiskun	HU331
				Békés	HU332
				Csongrád	HU333

[edit] See also

• Regions of Hungary

[edit] Sources and external links

• Eurostat - Portrait of the regions (forum.europa.eu.int)
• Overview maps of the NUTS and Statistical Regions of Europe (ec.europa.eu)
• Hungary counties (Statoids.com)
• Comparative analysis of some Hungarian regions by using “COCO” method (DOC file) (HTML version)
• Magyarország – NUTS level 3 (PDF; at the website of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office [1])
• Regions of Hungary (at Hungary.hu, the Government Portal of Hungary)
• (Hungarian) Hungary and the regions