The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode

standard Standard may refer to: Symbols * Colours, standards and guidons, kinds of military signs * Standard (emblem), a type of a large symbol or emblem used for identification Norms, conventions or requirements * Standard (metrology), an object th ...

for referencing the subdivisions of

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

for statistical purposes. The standard is developed and regulated by the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...

. 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 A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

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:'' ''

NUTS codes

In the 2003 version, the

Arrondissement of Verviers The Arrondissement of Verviers (french: links=no, Arrondissement de Verviers; german: links=no, Verwaltungsbezirk Verviers; nl, links=no, Arrondissement Verviers) is one of the four administrative arrondissements in the Walloon province of Li� ...

was coded BE333.

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
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BELGIQUE / BELGIË - NUTS level 2
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BELGIQUE / BELGIË - NUTS level 3

* ttp://simap.europa.eu/codes-and-nomenclatures/codes-nuts/codes-nuts-table_en.htm List of current NUTS codes*
Download current NUTS codes (ODS format)

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