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Identifier	NUTS
Short name	NUTS
Dataset	CDDA
Table	Sites
Reference URL	http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/datasets/latest/CDDA/tables/sites/elements/NUTS
Name	Administrative Region Code
Definition	The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is defined only for the Member States of the European Union. For the candidate countries awaiting accession to the EU, for the other European Economic Area (EEA) countries and for Switzerland, a coding of Statistical Regions has been defined by Eurostat in agreement with the countries concerned.
Methodology for obtaining data	This field is of particular interest for countries with regionalised administrative structure. It enables the splitting of the database in to different regions. The latest version can be found at: http://europe.eu.int/comm/eurostat/ramon/nuts/code...
Datatype	string
Minimum size	0
Maximum size	5
Public or Internal	Public attribute
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