WMS NUTS Zones: German Administrative Regions at 1:250,000 Scale

NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) regions for Germany, provided as a Web Map Service (WMS). The data includes hierarchical levels NUTS1 (countries), NUTS2 (administrative regions), and NUTS3 (district-free cities and districts). It is published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie under the Data licence Germany – attribution – Version 2.0.

Use Cases

• Mapping regional economic indicators based on the standardized NUTS classification.
• Aggregating national statistics to NUTS2 or NUTS3 levels for EU reporting.
• Performing spatial joins with other datasets using the provided administrative boundaries.
• Creating choropleth maps of Germany using the official statistical region geometries.

Strengths

• Geometry is derived from official administrative area databases, ensuring alignment with the digital landscape model.
• Explicitly includes former administrative districts for certain federal states at the NUTS2 level, as noted in the description.
• Data is provided at a scale of 1:250,000.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Derived from the respective database of the corresponding administrative areas.

Time Range

As at 31.12 (specific year unknown).

Geography

Federal Republic of Germany