pysquirrel is a Python package designed to fetch NUTS administrative divisions.

The current NUTS version is valid from 1 January 2024.

From the Eurostat website:

“The NUTS classification (Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) is a hierarchical system for dividing up the economic territory of the EU for the purpose of: - the collection, development and harmonisation of European regional statistics - socio-economic analyses of the regions

• NUTS 1: major socio-economic regions
• NUTS 2: basic regions for the application of regional policies
• NUTS 3: small regions for specific diagnoses

• framing of EU regional policies
• regions eligible for support from cohesion policy have been defined at NUTS 2 level
• the cohesion report has so far mainly been prepared at NUTS 2 level”

pysquirrel allows searching the list of all territorial units by specifying the parameters and the values to search as shown below:

>>> import pysquirrel

>>> pysquirrel.nuts.get(country_code="AT")  # gets all regions in Austria

>>> pysquirrel.nuts.get(code="PT191")  # gets the PT191 region

>>> pysquirrel.nuts.get(label="Drenthe")  # gets the Drenthe region

>>> pysquirrel.nuts.get(level=3)  # gets all NUTS3 regions

>>> pysquirrel.nuts.get(parent_code="DE2")  # gets all regions whose parent region is DE2

Please note that pyNUTS is not developed, maintained or affiliated with Eurostat. The Eurostat copyright notice applies.

The Eurostat editorial content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>__. Reuse of statistical metadata such as the NUTS classification is authorised with due citation of the source.

European Commission, Eurostat, Statistical regions in the European Union and partner countries – NUTS and statistical regions 2021 – 2022 edition, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, <https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/321792>__