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. The NUTS standard is instrumental in delivering the European Union's Structural Funds. The NUTS code for Germany is ''DE'' 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 Germany the LAUs 1 is collective municipalities, and the LAU 2 is

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NUTS codes

Older Version

In the 2003 version, before the abolition of the government regions in Sachsen-Anhalt, the codes were as follows ::DEE1 Dessau :::DEE11 Dessau, Kreisfreie Stadt :::DEE12

Anhalt-Zerbst Anhalt-Zerbst was a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts Potsdam-Mittelmark (Brandenburg) and Wittenberg, the city of Dessau and the districts of Köthen, Schönebeck and Jerichower ...

:::DEE13

Bernburg Bernburg (Saale) is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, capital of the Salzlandkreis district. The former residence of the Anhalt-Bernburg princes is known for its Renaissance castle. Geography The town centre is situated in the fertile Magdeburg ...

:::DEE14

Bitterfeld Bitterfeld () is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 July 2007 it has been part of the town of Bitterfeld-Wolfen. It is situated approximately 25 km south of Dessau, and 30 km northeast of Halle ( ...

:::DEE15 Köthen :::DEE16

Wittenberg Wittenberg ( , ; Low Saxon: ''Wittenbarg''; meaning ''White Mountain''; officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg (''Luther City Wittenberg'')), is the fourth largest town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wittenberg is situated on the River Elbe, north o ...

::DEE2 Halle :::DEE21 Halle (Saale), Kreisfreie Stadt :::DEE22

Burgenlandkreis Burgenlandkreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Its area is . History The district was established as Landkreis Burgenland by the merger of the former Burgenlandkreis and Landkreis Weißenfels as part of the reform of 2007. On 16 ...

:::DEE23 Mansfelder Land :::DEE24 Merseburg-Querfurt :::DEE25

Saalkreis Saalkreis was a district (''Kreis'') in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Neighboring districts were (from west clockwise) Mansfelder Land, Bernburg, Köthen, Bitterfeld, the district Delitzsch in Saxony, and the district Merseburg-Querfurt. T ...

:::DEE26

Sangerhausen Sangerhausen () is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany, capital of the district of Mansfeld-Südharz. It is situated southeast of the Harz, approx. east of Nordhausen, and west of Halle (Saale). About 26,000 people live in Sangerhausen ( ...

:::DEE27

Weißenfels Weißenfels (; often written in English as Weissenfels) is the largest town of the Burgenlandkreis district, in southern Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. It is situated on the river Saale, approximately south of Halle. History Perhaps the fir ...

::DEE3

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebu ...

:::DEE31 Magdeburg, Kreisfreie Stadt :::DEE32 Aschersleben-Staßfurt :::DEE33 Bördekreis :::DEE34

Halberstadt Halberstadt ( Eastphalian: ''Halverstidde'') is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the capital of Harz district. Located north of the Harz mountain range, it is known for its old town center that was greatly destroyed by Allied bomb ...

:::DEE35

Jerichower Land Jerichower Land is a district (''Kreis'') in the north-east of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Its neighbouring administrative units are (clockwise from the south): the districts of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Salzlandkreis, the city of Magdeburg, the districts o ...

:::DEE36 Ohrekreis :::DEE37

Stendal The Hanseatic City of Stendal () is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is the capital of the Stendal District and the unofficial capital of the Altmark region. Geography Situated west of the Elbe valley, the Stendal town centre is located s ...

:::DEE38

Quedlinburg Quedlinburg () is a town situated just north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. As an influential and prosperous trading centre during the early Middle Ages, Quedlinburg became a center of in ...

:::DEE39

Schönebeck Schönebeck (), officially Schönebeck (Elbe), is a town in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, approx. southeast of Magdeburg. For much of the twentieth century it was noted ...

:::DEE3A Wernigerode (district), Wernigerode :::DEE3B Altmarkkreis Salzwedel Changes Changes from 2006 to 2010 * BRANDENBURG merged from two regions * SAXONY restructured after 2008 redistricting legislation Changes from 2010 to 2013 * MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN completely restructured and merged districts Changes from 2013 to 2016:Eurostat documents 2016
/ref> ::DE91C created from merger of old DE915 Göttingen (district), Göttingen and DE919 Osterode (district), Osterode am Harz ::Boundary changes for DEB1C (old DEB16) and DEB1D (old DEB19)

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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DEUTSCHLAND – NUTS level 2
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DEUTSCHLAND North – NUTS level 3
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DEUTSCHLAND East – NUTS level 3
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DEUTSCHLAND South – NUTS level 3
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DEUTSCHLAND West – NUTS level 3

* [http://simap.europa.eu/codes-and-nomenclatures/codes-nuts/codes-nuts-table_en.htm List of current NUTS codes] *
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External links

*The LAU codes of Germany: {{NUTS Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, Germany Subdivisions of Germany, Nuts