Group of federal states
As a group of states which are statistical regions at NUTS-1 in Austria referred to as within the statistics division of the EU NUTS: AT are structured.
function
These are regions of the European Community that were created for comparative statistical purposes. The criterion here is a population between around 3 and 7 million inhabitants. On the basis of such regions, the units of the individual member states can be compared within the framework of Eurostat .
table
The 9 federal states are combined into 3 groups.
NUTS code | Surname | Associated federal states (NUTS-2) | Area in km² or% | Resident population | ||
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AT-1 | Eastern Austria | Burgenland (AT-11), Lower Austria (AT-12), Vienna (AT-13) | 23,558.01 | 28 | 3,373,496 | 42 |
AT-2 | Southern Austria | Carinthia (AT-21), Styria (AT-22) | 25,928.24 | 31 | 1,742,707 | 22nd |
AT-3 | Western Austria | Upper Austria (AT-31), Salzburg (AT-32), Tyrol (AT-33), Vorarlberg (AT-34) | 34,385.72 | 41 | 2,916,723 | 36 |
literature
- Regional data for Austria in NUTS breakdown. NUTS breakdown of Austria . In: Austrian Statistical Yearbook 2009 . Vienna 2010, section 37 ( statistik.at [PDF; accessed on January 8, 2010]).