NUTS regions
The EU's common classification of regions, used to compare places inside countries.
NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) divides the EU and some neighbouring countries into three levels of regions. Eurostat publishes most regional statistics at level 2, the level used on this site.
NUTS 2 regions are meant to be of broadly similar population size, usually between 800,000 and 3 million people, so they are often groups of provinces or counties rather than the regions people know from everyday use. Small countries such as Luxembourg or Malta are a single NUTS 2 region.
The classification is revised every few years. When a region is split or merged, its code changes and older figures may only exist under the previous code. This site loads the current 2024 classification.