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,[2] 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).