NUTS statistical regions of Turkey

As a candidate country of the European Union, Turkey is included in the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics. Defined in 2002 in agreement between Eurostat and the Turkish authorities, Turkey's NUTS classifications are officially termed statistical regions, as Turkey is not a member of the EU and Eurostat only defines NUTS for member states. The three NUTS levels are:

NUTS-1: 12 First-level NUTS of the [European Union | Regions]
NUTS-2: 26 Subregions
NUTS-3: 81 Provinces

Below the NUTS levels, there are two local [administrative unit | LAU] levels:

LAU-1: 923 districts
LAU-2: 37,675 List of [municipalities in Turkey | municipalities]

The NUTS codes are as follows: