NUTS statistical regions of the Czech Republic explained

See main article: Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of the Czech Republic for statistical purposes.^[1] The standard is developed and regulated by the European Union. The NUTS standard is instrumental in delivering the European Union's Structural Funds. The NUTS code for the Czech Republic is CZ 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 the Czech Republic, the LAU 1 is districts and the LAU 2 is municipalities.

Overall

Level	Subdivisions
NUTS 1	Whole Country	1
NUTS 2	Cohesion region (Region soudržnosti)	8
NUTS 3	Region (Kraj)	14

NUTS codes

NUTS 1	Code	NUTS 2	Code	NUTS 3	Code
Czech Republic	CZ0	Prague	CZ01	Prague	CZ010
		Střední Čechy (Central Bohemia)	CZ02	Central Bohemian Region	CZ020
		Jihozápad (Southwest)	CZ03	South Bohemian Region	CZ031
				Plzeň Region	CZ032
		Severozápad (Northwest)	CZ04	Karlovy Vary Region	CZ041
				Ústí nad Labem Region	CZ042
		Severovýchod (Northeast)	CZ05	Liberec Region	CZ051
				Hradec Králové Region	CZ052
				Pardubice Region	CZ053
		Jihovýchod (Southeast)	CZ06	Vysočina Region	CZ063
				South Moravian Region	CZ064
		Střední Morava (Central Moravia)	CZ07	Olomouc Region	CZ071
				Zlín Region	CZ072
		Moravskoslezsko (Moravian-Silesian)	CZ08	Moravian-Silesian Region	CZ080

In the 2003 version, the Vysočina Region was coded CZ061, and the South Moravian Region was coded CZ062.

Local administrative units

See main article: Local administrative unit.

Below the NUTS levels, the two LAU (Local Administrative Units) levels are:

Level	Subdivisions
LAU 1	Districts (Okresy) and Prague	77
LAU 2	Municipalities (Obce)	6254

The LAU codes of the Czech Republic can be downloaded here:

See also

• List of Czech regions by Human Development Index
• Subdivisions of the Czech Republic
• ISO 3166-2 codes of the Czech Republic
• FIPS region codes of the Czech Republic

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
• Correspondence between the NUTS levels and the national administrative units
• List of current NUTS codes
  • Download current NUTS codes (ODS format)
• Regions of the Czech Republic, Statoids.com
• Districts of the Czech Republic, Statoids.com

External links

• NUTS reference of the Czech Republic
• NUTS of municipalities

Notes and References

1. Web site: Revision to the Irish NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions. cso.ie. 2021-06-07. 2018-11-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20181113144646/https://www.cso.ie/en/methods/revnuts23/. dead.