Classification of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS)

Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (as last amended by Commission Delegated Regulation 2019/1755) establishes a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) for the collection, compilation and dissemination of harmonized regional statistics in the EU.

In the NUTS classification, each EU country is subdivided into territorial units of NUTS levels 1–3 taking into account population in the relevant territorial unit:

Level	Smallest number of residents in the territorial unit	Largest number of residents in the territorial unit
NUTS 1	3 million	7 million
NUTS 2	800 thousand	3 million
NUTS 3	150 thousand	800 thousand

More information about the NUTS classification is available on the Eurostat website.

The NUTS classification is applied in Lithuania.

Document updated: 2022-05-19