> Each NUTS-2 region is supposed to be 800k to 3 million people per region. It's not perfect It's far from perfect in some countries. The Community of Madrid w

> Each NUTS-2 region is supposed to be 800k to 3 million people per region. It's not perfect It's far from perfect in some countries. The Community of Madrid with 6.5 million people is its own region (or Catalonia with 7.5 million); that's more than Scotland, which is cut up into five NUTS-2 regions. The Paris region (Île-de-France) has 12 million inhabitants, which is more than, say, Austria or Hungary or the Czech Republic, each cut up according to more or less traditional geographic divisions. You have a point according to how NUTS should work, the grandparent does have a bit of a point according to what it's like in practice.