gisco_nuts {giscoR}

All NUTS POLYGON object

Description

A sf object including all NUTS levels as provided by GISCO (2016 version).

Format

A POLYGON data frame (resolution: 1:20million, EPSG:4326) object with 2,016 rows and 11 variables:

NUTS_ID

NUTS identifier.

LEVL_CODE

NUTS level code ⁠(0,1,2,3)⁠.

URBN_TYPE

Urban Type, see Details.

CNTR_CODE

Eurostat Country code.

NAME_LATN

NUTS name on Latin characters.

NUTS_NAME

NUTS name on local alphabet.

MOUNT_TYPE

Mount Type, see Details.

COAST_TYPE

Coast Type, see Details.

FID

FID.

geo

Same as NUTS_ID, provided for compatibility with eurostat.

geometry

geometry field.

Details

MOUNT_TYPE: Mountain typology:

• 1: More than 50 % of the surface is covered by topographic mountain areas.

• 2: More than 50 % of the regional population lives in topographic mountain areas.

• 3: More than 50 % of the surface is covered by topographic mountain areas and where more than 50 % of the regional population lives in these mountain areas.

• 4: Non-mountain region / other regions.

• 0: No classification provided.

URBN_TYPE: Urban-rural typology:

• 1: Predominantly urban region.

• 2: Intermediate region.

• 3: Predominantly rural region.

• 0: No classification provided.

COAST_TYPE: Coastal typology:

• 1: Coastal (on coast).

• 2: Coastal (less than 50% of population living within 50 km. of the coastline).

• 3: Non-coastal region.

• 0: No classification provided.

Source

NUTS_RG_20M_2016_4326.geojson file.

See Also

gisco_get_nuts()

Other dataset: gisco_coastallines, gisco_countries, gisco_countrycode, gisco_db

Examples

data("gisco_nuts")
head(gisco_nuts)