In the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) codes of Spain (ES), the following are the first-level political and administrative divisions.
Overall
NUTS Codes Level Subdivisions # NUTS 1 Groups of autonomous communities (Agrupación de comunidades autónomas) 7 NUTS 2 Autonomous communities and cities (Comunidades y ciudades autónomas) 19 NUTS 3 Provinces + Islands + Ceuta and Melilla (Provincias + islas + Ceuta y Melilla) 59
Local administrative units
Below the NUTS levels, the two LAU (Local Administrative Units) levels are:
Level Subdivisions # LAU 1 — (same as NUTS 3) 59 LAU 2 Municipalities (Municipios) 8114
The LAU codes of Spain can be downloaded here:
NUTS codes
NUTS 1 Code NUTS 2 Code NUTS 3 Code NOROESTE Galicia A Coruña Lugo Ourense Pontevedra Principality of Asturias Asturias Cantabria Cantabria NORESTE Basque Community Álava/Araba Guipúzcoa/Gipuzkoa Vizcaya/Bizkaia Navarre Navarre La Rioja La Rioja Aragon Huesca Teruel Zaragoza COM. DE MADRID Madrid Madrid CENTRO Castile-Leon Ávila Burgos León Palencia Salamanca Segovia Soria Valladolid Zamora Castile-La Mancha Albacete Ciudad Real Cuenca Guadalajara Toledo Extremadura Badajoz Cáceres ESTE Catalonia Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Valencian Community Alicante Castellón/Castelló Valencia Balearic Islands Eivissa i Formentera Mallorca Menorca SUR Andalusia Almería Cádiz Córdoba Granada Huelva Jaén Málaga Sevilla Region of Murcia Murcia Ceuta Ceuta Melilla Melilla CANARIAS Canary Islands El Hierro Fuerteventura Gran Canaria La Gomera La Palma Lanzarote Tenerife
Older Codes In the 2003 version, the two provinces of the Canary Islands were coded as follows: Las Palmas Tenerife
See also Subdivisions of Spain ISO 3166-2 codes of Spain FIPS region codes of Spain
Sources Hierarchical list of the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics - NUTS and the Statistical regions of Europe Overview map of EU Countries - NUTS level 1 ESPANA - NUTS level 2 ESPANA - NUTS level 3 Correspondence between the NUTS levels and the national administrative units List of current NUTS codes Download current NUTS codes (ODS format) Provinces of Spain, Statoids.com