The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Belgium for statistical purposes. The standard is developed and regulated by the European Union. The NUTS standard is instrumental in delivering the European Union's Structural Funds. The NUTS code for Belgium is BE 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 Belgium, the LAUs are municipalities.
Overall
NUTS Levels
Local administrative units
Below the NUTS levels, the two LAU (Local Administrative Units) levels are:
The LAU codes of Belgium can be downloaded here: [1]
NUTS codes
In the 2003 version, the Arrondissement of Verviers was coded BE333.
See also Subdivisions of Belgium ISO 3166-2 codes of Belgium FIPS region codes of Belgium
References
Sources Hierarchical list of the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics - NUTS and the Statistical regions of Europe Overview map of EU Countries - NUTS level 1 BELGIQUE / BELGIË - NUTS level 2 BELGIQUE / BELGIË - NUTS level 3 Correspondence between the NUTS levels and the national administrative units List of current NUTS codes Archived 2012-02-27 at the Wayback Machine Download current NUTS codes (ODS format) Archived 2015-07-16 at the Wayback Machine Provinces of Belgium, Statoids.com Arrondissements of Belgium, Statoids.com


