National Areas of Sweden

In the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) codes of Sweden (SE), the three levels are:

Prior to 2008, the codes were as follows:

The National Areas of Sweden are 8 second level subdivisions (NUTS-2) of Sweden, created by the European Union for statistical purposes.

The 8 riksområden (Singular : Riksområde) includes the 21 counties of Sweden. Only Stockholm (SE01) corresponds simply to .

Below the NUTS levels, the two LAU (Local Administrative Units) levels are:

The LAU codes of Sweden can be downloaded here: [1]

While similar, NUTS 1 does not correspond to Lands of Sweden.