The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Switzerland for statistical purposes.[1] As a member of EFTA Switzerland is included in the NUTS standard, although the standard is developed and regulated by the European Union, an organization that Switzerland does not belong to. The NUTS standard is instrumental in delivering the European Union's Structural Funds. The NUTS code for Switzerland is CH 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 Switzerland, the LAUs are municipalities.
The three NUTS levels are:
| NUTS-1 | Entire Country | 1 | |
| NUTS-2 | Regions | 7 | |
| NUTS-3 | Cantons | 26 |
The NUTS codes are as follows:
| Diagram of the National (NUTS-1) and Regional (NUTS-2) borders of Switzerland | |||||
| NUTS 1 | Code | NUTS 2 | Code | NUTS 3 | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Switzerland | CH0 | Lake Geneva region | CH01 | CH011 | |
| CH012 | |||||
| CH013 | |||||
| Espace Mittelland | CH02 | CH021 | |||
| CH022 | |||||
| CH023 | |||||
| CH024 | |||||
| CH025 | |||||
| Northwestern Switzerland | CH03 | CH031 | |||
| CH032 | |||||
| CH033 | |||||
| Zurich | CH04 | CH040 | |||
| Eastern Switzerland | CH05 | CH051 | |||
| CH052 | |||||
| CH053 | |||||
| CH054 | |||||
| CH055 | |||||
| CH056 | |||||
| CH057 | |||||
| Central Switzerland | CH06 | CH061 | |||
| CH062 | |||||
| CH063 | |||||
| CH064 | |||||
| CH065 | |||||
| CH066 | |||||
| Ticino | CH07 | CH070 | |||
Below the NUTS levels, there are Local Administrative Units (LAU)
See main article: Municipalities of Switzerland.
