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All NUTS POLYGON object

Source: R/data.R
gisco_nuts.Rd

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.

Source

NUTS_RG_20M_2016_4326.geojson file.

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.

See also

gisco_get_nuts()

Other dataset: gisco_coastallines, gisco_countries, gisco_countries_2024, gisco_countrycode, gisco_db

Examples


data("gisco_nuts")
head(gisco_nuts)
#> Simple feature collection with 6 features and 9 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: -63.08825 ymin: -21.39077 xmax: 55.83808 ymax: 70.08134
#> Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84
#> # A tibble: 6 × 10
#>   NUTS_ID LEVL_CODE URBN_TYPE CNTR_CODE NAME_LATN           NUTS_NAME MOUNT_TYPE
#>   <chr>       <dbl>     <dbl> <chr>     <chr>               <chr>          <dbl>
#> 1 ES              0         0 ES        ESPAÑA              ESPAÑA             0
#> 2 FI              0         0 FI        SUOMI / FINLAND     SUOMI / …          0
#> 3 IS              0         0 IS        ÍSLAND              ÍSLAND             0
#> 4 PT2             1         0 PT        REGIÃO AUTÓNOMA DO… REGIÃO A…          0
#> 5 FR              0         0 FR        FRANCE              FRANCE             0
#> 6 HR              0         0 HR        HRVATSKA            HRVATSKA           0
#> # ℹ 3 more variables: COAST_TYPE <dbl>, geo <chr>, geometry <MULTIPOLYGON [°]>