Zone d'études et d'aménagement du territoire

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ZEAT (colors) and regions (borders) in France

As Zone d'études et d'aménagement du territoire ( ZEAT , " Space Research - and planning areas ") are referred to the eight zones in the Metropolitan France is divided for statistical purposes. Until December 2015, they each comprised one or more of the 21 regions and Corsica. Since the regions were redesigned in January 2016, some of the now 13 regions have been distributed over several ZEATs.

ZEAT was established in 1967 by the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques ( INSEE ), together with the Commissariat général and the Délégation à l'aménagement du territoire et à l'action régionale (DATAR).

The NUTS 1 areas of the European Union are congruent with the ZEAT . However, they partially differ in coding and naming, and a ninth NUTS 1 area has been defined for the overseas departments .

code		Surname		Regions
ZEAT	NUTS	ZEAT	NUTS
1	FR1	Paris region	Île-de-France	Île-de-France
2	FR2	Basin Paris		Part of Grand Est (former Champagne-Ardenne region ), part of Hauts-de-France (former Picardy region ), Normandy , Center-Val de Loire , part of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (former Burgundy region )
3	FR3	North	Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Part of Hauts-de-France (former Nord-Pas-de-Calais region )
4th	FR4	Est		Part of Grand Est (former regions of Lorraine and Alsace ), part of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (former region of Franche-Comté )
5	FR5	Ouest		Pays de la Loire , Brittany , part of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (former Poitou-Charentes region )
7th	FR6	Sud-Ouest		Part of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (former Aquitaine and Limousin regions ), part of Occitania (former Midi-Pyrénées region )
8th	FR7	Center-Est		Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
9	FR8	Méditerranée		Part of Occitania (former Languedoc-Roussillon region ), Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur , Corsica
-	FR9	-	Départements d'Outre-mer  (DOM)	Guadeloupe , Martinique , French Guiana , Réunion ∗

^∗2014 still without the new DOM Mayotte

literature

• The huit zones d'études et d'aménagement du territoire. In: Économie et statistique 5 (1969), pp. 45-47, doi : 10.3406 / estat.1969.1836 .