R: European Union: NUTS And LAU Correspondence

nuts_lau_2019 {regions}

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European Union: NUTS And LAU Correspondence

A dataset containing the joined correspondence tables of the EU NUTS and local administration units (LAU) typologies.

nuts_lau_2019

A data frame with 99140 rows and 22 variables:

code_2016: NUTS3 code of the local administrative unit, 2016 definition
lau_code: Local Administrative Unit code
lau_name_national: LAU name, official in national language(s)
lau_name_latin: LAU name, official Latin alphabet version
name_change_last_year: Change in name in the year before?
population: Population
total_area_m2: Area in square meters
degurba: Degree of urbanization
degurba_change_last_year: Change in degree of urbanization?
coastal_area: Part of coastal area classification?
coastal_change_last_year: Change in coastal area classification
city_id: NUTS territorial name in the 2006 definition
city_id_change_last_year: NUTS territorial name in the 2010 definition
city_name: Name of the city
greater_city_id: Containing metro area ID, if applicable
greater_city_id_change_last_year: Change in metro area ID
greater_city_name: Name of containing greater city (metropolitan) area, if applicable
fua_id: FUA ID
fua_id_change_last_year: Change of FUA ID since last year
fua_name: Name in FUA database
country: NUTS country code with exceptions: EL for Greece, UK for United Kingdom
gisco_id: GISCO ID

This is also the authoritative vocabulary for local administration, names, including city and metropolitan area names.