This dataset represents the regions for levels 1, 2 and 3 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) for 2016. The NUTS nomenclature is a hierarchical classification of statistical regions and subdivides the EU economic territory into regions of four different levels (NUTS , 1, 2 and 3, moving respectively from larger to smaller territorial units). NUTS 1 is the most aggregated level. An additional Country level (NUTS 0) is also available for countries where the the nation at statistical level does not coincide with the administrative boundaries. For example Mt Athos in Greece and Mellum and Minsener Ogg in Germany. The NUTS classification has been officially established through Regulation (EC) No 2016/2066 of the European Parliament and of the Council and its amendments. A non-official NUTS-like classification has been defined for the EFTA countries and candidate countries. An introduction to the NUTS classification is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/overview. This dataset has been created mainly from the EuroBoundary Map v 12 (Eurogeographics) and geographic information from TurkStat for Turkey. The public dataset is available under the Download link indicated below. Available scales are 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M). The full dataset is available via the EC restricted download link under GISCO.NUTS_2016. Here six scale ranges (100K, 1M, 3M, 10M and 20M, 60M) are available. Coverage is the economic territory of the EU, EFTA countries and candidate countries as in 2013.

The geogrpahical areas covered by each Area Committee in the Highland Council area.

Polling Districts in Highland Council. A polling district is a geographical sub-division of an electoral area. For voting purposes, each parliamentary constituency and every local government ward is divided into one or more polling districts.

Areas of Greatest Potential. Scottish Planning Policy states that planning authorities “should identify where there is strategic capacity for wind farms, and areas with the greatest potential for wind development”. Areas of greatest scope for further investigating the feasibility of developing wind farms. These areas have been identified on Policy Guidance maps by removing additional constraints from the spatial framework map of the areas likely to be most appropriate for wind farm development. The remaining areas which have been mapped for each development typology are the areas with the fewest constraints and therefore the greatest potential for wind farm developments.

The local administrative units, abbreviated as LAUs, form a system for dividing up the economic territory of the European Union (EU) for the purpose of statistics at local level. They have been set up by Eurostat and they are compatible with NUTS. The LAU classification is equivalent to the classification of all Maltese local councils into six districts by Malta Geographic Codes (MGC). At local level, two levels of LAU have been defined: the upper level (LAU1, formerly NUTS level 4) which are the six districts and the lower level (LAU2, formerly NUTS level 5) which consist of the 68 local councils.

In Moray, the education authority discharges its duty to secure adequate and efficient education for the local authority area by operating a “catchment area” system to enable parents/carers to comply with their duty to provide efficient education for their child(ren). The zones (catchment areas) are shown as delineated areas on maps. Information on these catchment areas is available at the Moray Council website. Most parents of children living within the catchment area will choose for their children to attend the designated primary and secondary school for their catchment area. If a parent wishes their child to be enrolled at a school which is not the designated catchment area school for their postal address, they must make an out-of-zone ‘placing request’.

Scottish UK Parliamentary Constituencies (or Westminster Constituencies) define the electoral areas of Scotland used to return members to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in UK general elections. They are different from the Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies, which are used to return members to the Scottish Parliament. There are currently 59 Westminster constituencies in total, each electing one Member of Parliament. The Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for recommendations on the definition of constituency boundaries, however, the definitive dataset is delineated by Ordnance Survey for inclusion in their BoundaryLine product.

Fife Council mapped greenspace sites are vegetated land or water within or adjoining an urban settlement of significant area as to be usable by the public for recreational purposes. can be equivalently referred to as open spaces

Shapefile showing the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust Site. This differs from the actual World Heritage Boundary - it is extended to the north to cover the New Town Conservation Area. This is to enable the EWHT to administer the larger area which includes Old and New Towns.

The available shapefile represents the administrative divisions of Inia. The shapefile divides India into 27 states and seven union territories. The states and union territories are subdivided into 560 districts. These, in turn, have 2101 subdivisions that are generically called sub-districts, but that have different statuses by state. We received the shapefile from the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP). The original source of the shapefile remains unknow but it seem it is from he government. We used the shapefile as the best available information to georeferrence the samples of the Herbarium of the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP).