EU regions (NUTS 2) by local units in information and communication

Ile-de-France had the highest local units in information and communication of 242 regions in 2023, at 106,105. Ceuta had the lowest, at 31. The median was 3,256. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest106,105Ile-de-France

Lowest31Ceuta

Median3,256242 regions

Top 40 regions, 2023

count. Source: Eurostat, Local units by NUTS 2 region, Information and communication (NACE Rev. 2 section J) (sbs_r_nuts2021). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Regions	2023 count	Change on 2022
1	Ile-de-France	106,105	+8.7%
2	Warszawski stołeczny	61,632	+14.1%
3	Noord-Holland	37,951	+2.6%
4	Stockholm	33,953	+5%
5	Lombardia	31,621	+1.8%
6	Zuid-Holland	29,303	+4.1%
7	Praha	27,715	+5.4%
8	Małopolskie	25,660	+17.7%
9	Community of Madrid	24,560	-2.2%
10	Dolnośląskie	23,215	+14.1%
11	Rhône-Alpes	22,805	+10.6%
12	Budapest	21,799	-16.9%
13	Catalonia	21,751	-0.2%
14	Śląskie	19,143	+9.1%
15	Lazio	18,619	+1.5%
16	Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur	17,741	+5.1%
17	Wielkopolskie	17,169	+9.9%
18	Oberbayern	17,095	+3.8%
19	Noord-Brabant	17,068	+3.6%
20	Bucureşti-Ilfov	16,734	+9.4%
21	Attiki	16,372	+6.2%
22	Utrecht	16,165	+3.9%
23	Eesti	15,277	+10.5%
24	Berlin	15,068	+5.1%
25	Pomorskie	14,985	+12.5%
26	Grande Lisboa	14,598	+14.7%
27	Bratislavský kraj	13,945	+6.4%
28	Eastern and Midland	13,824	-17.7%
29	Gelderland	13,730	+3%
30	Wien	13,514	+6%
31	Västsverige	13,210	+6.5%
32	Hovedstaden	12,355	-0.2%
33	Yugozapaden	12,222	+5.6%
34	Andalusia	11,967	+5.5%
35	Helsinki-Uusimaa	11,694	-0.3%
36	Darmstadt	11,061	+2.1%
37	Veneto	11,001	+1.2%
38	Emilia-Romagna	10,886	+2.4%
39	Köln	10,818	+2.6%
40	Aquitaine	10,753	+10.2%
41	Łódzkie	10,313	+10.7%
42	Valencian Community	10,019	+4.1%
43	Pays de la Loire	9,807	+9.7%
44	Prov. Antwerpen	9,802	-3.1%
45	Sydsverige	9,656	+6.7%
46	Piemonte	9,647	+1.6%
47	Düsseldorf	9,426	+3.9%
48	Střední Čechy	9,383	+5.8%
49	Midi-Pyrénées	9,321	+10.7%
50	Norte	9,152	+12.7%
51	Pest	9,111	-17.3%
52	Nord-Pas de Calais	9,066	+10.5%
53	Sostinės regionas	9,048	+13.4%
54	Östra Mellansverige	8,909	+6.9%
55	Toscana	8,602	+0.8%
56	Languedoc-Roussillon	8,487	+9.8%
57	Campania	8,484	+3.5%
58	Jihovýchod	8,348	+1.9%
59	Bretagne	8,241	+9%
60	Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest	8,178	-5.8%
61	Západné Slovensko	8,001	+4.5%
62	Zahodna Slovenija	7,972	+4%
63	Stuttgart	7,534	+2.4%
64	Hamburg	7,495	+3.7%
65	Lubelskie	7,113	+9.5%
66	Prov. Vlaams-Brabant	7,047	-0.8%
67	Grad Zagreb	7,023	+4.6%
68	Overijssel	6,960	+3.4%
69	Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen	6,823	-2.6%
70	Podkarpackie	6,807	+8.9%
71	Nord-Vest	6,788	+12.6%
72	Vidurio ir vakarų Lietuvos regionas	6,427	+8.3%
73	Sicilia	6,192	+2.5%
74	Severovýchod	6,072	+5.1%
75	Stredné Slovensko	6,044	+4.1%
76	Kujawsko-pomorskie	5,879	+8.1%
77	Karlsruhe	5,820	+3.6%
78	Niederösterreich	5,807	+4%
79	Zachodniopomorskie	5,540	+8.7%
80	Mazowiecki regionalny	5,516	+6.8%
81	Puglia	5,329	+2.4%
82	Centre - Val de Loire	5,071	+9%
83	Podlaskie	4,965	+13.3%
84	Limburg (NL)	4,914	+1.4%
85	Southern	4,830	+1.4%
86	Alsace	4,727	+9.2%
87	Oberösterreich	4,467	+1.7%
88	Vzhodna Slovenija	4,434	+4.6%
89	Arnsberg	4,432	+2.6%
90	Länsi-Suomi	4,407	+0.4%
91	Schleswig-Holstein	4,401	+4.2%
92	Jihozápad	4,387	+3.2%
93	Steiermark	4,261	+4.4%
94	Kýpros	4,255	+11.4%
95	Centru	4,198	+12.8%
96	Dél-Alföld	4,027	-16.9%
97	Flevoland	3,991	+4%
98	Střední Morava	3,984	+0.9%
99	Jadranska Hrvatska	3,912	+6.2%
100	Midtjylland	3,909	+0.9%
101	Nord-Est	3,894	+11.9%
102	Galicia	3,889	+3.3%
103	Canary Islands	3,859	+15.4%
104	Groningen	3,856	+1.2%
105	Moravskoslezsko	3,804	+2.3%
106	Centro (PT)	3,802	+15.4%
107	Kentriki Makedonia	3,762	+7.7%
108	Poitou-Charentes	3,733	+9.5%
109	Lorraine	3,727	+9.8%
110	Közép-Dunántúl	3,724	-18%
111	Luxembourg	3,574	+4.8%
112	Prov. West-Vlaanderen	3,530	-2.1%
113	Norra Mellansverige	3,511	+7.6%
114	Severozápad	3,494	+3.8%
115	Småland med öarna	3,432	+7.7%
116	Basque Country	3,384	-9.1%
117	Mittelfranken	3,360	+2.1%
118	Észak-Alföld	3,327	-17%
119	Freiburg	3,278	+4.4%
120	Haute-Normandie	3,271	+8.7%
121	Warmińsko-mazurskie	3,258	+8.6%
122	Brandenburg	3,254	+3.7%
123	Münster	3,228	+2.9%
124	Prov. Limburg (BE)	3,207	-4.1%
125	Vest	3,204	+14.6%
126	Etelä-Suomi	3,195	-1.4%
127	Nyugat-Dunántúl	3,175	-12.8%
128	Marche	3,145	+2.1%
129	Friesland (NL)	3,126	+2.6%
130	Hannover	3,091	+2.8%
131	Rheinhessen-Pfalz	3,049	+2.7%
132	Schwaben	3,008	+6.4%
133	Picardie	2,943	+12%
134	Tübingen	2,935	+3.9%
135	Liguria	2,927	+2.1%
136	Detmold	2,909	+2%
137	Prov. Brabant wallon	2,895	-8.6%
138	Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi	2,892	+0.9%
139	Bourgogne	2,889	+10.8%
140	Sud-Muntenia	2,837	+7.9%
141	Świętokrzyskie	2,830	+8.2%
142	Malta	2,782	+14.3%
143	Dél-Dunántúl	2,751	-17.4%
144	Península de Setúbal	2,740	+18.9%
145	Castile and León	2,730	-0.9%
146	Basse-Normandie	2,683	+10.1%
147	Weser-Ems	2,652	+6.1%
148	Észak-Magyarország	2,621	-16.6%
149	Syddanmark	2,563	+0.4%
150	Sardegna	2,557	+2.4%
151	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	2,551	+2.2%
152	Abruzzo	2,443	+4.7%
153	Auvergne	2,441	+13.4%
153	Lubuskie	2,441	+7.4%
155	Opolskie	2,436	+8.9%
156	Övre Norrland	2,432	+8.9%
157	Northern and Western	2,387	-13.2%
158	Tirol	2,385	+4.7%
159	Drenthe	2,355	+1.6%
159	Panonska Hrvatska	2,355	+9%
161	Sjeverna Hrvatska	2,336	+2.4%
162	Calabria	2,307	+2%
163	Prov. Hainaut	2,294	-4.5%
164	Dresden	2,259	+4%
165	Sud-Est	2,239	+7.4%
166	Castilla-La Mancha	2,205	+69.7%
167	Prov. Liège	2,193	-2.8%
168	Yuzhen tsentralen	2,123	+6.8%
169	Balearic Islands	2,080	-11.7%
170	Aragon	2,079	+31.9%
171	Sjælland	2,055	+1.4%
172	Leipzig	2,052	+5.1%
173	Lüneburg	2,031	+5%
174	Thüringen	2,024	+1.9%
175	Koblenz	2,006	+1.9%
176	Unterfranken	1,999	+4.2%
177	Champagne-Ardenne	1,995	+6.1%
178	Salzburg	1,976	+4.4%
179	Severoiztochen	1,968	+3.1%
180	Region of Murcia	1,957	+3%
181	Sud-Vest Oltenia	1,857	+12.2%
182	Umbria	1,817	+4.5%
183	Mellersta Norrland	1,808	+7.2%
184	Oeste e Vale do Tejo	1,805	+18.7%
185	La Réunion	1,724	+16.5%
186	Braunschweig	1,723	+0.7%
187	Franche-Comté	1,682	+9.5%
188	Sachsen-Anhalt	1,668	+4.3%
189	Asturias	1,653	+37.2%
190	Kärnten	1,531	+7.4%
191	Niederbayern	1,520	+5.5%
192	Oberpfalz	1,474	+4.7%
193	Yugoiztochen	1,468	+6.8%
194	Zeeland	1,457	+6%
195	Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen	1,441	+1.1%
196	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	1,401	+3.3%
197	Kassel	1,363	+7.4%
198	Gießen	1,353	+2.4%
199	Provincia Autonoma di Trento	1,343	+1.3%
200	Oberfranken	1,322	+5.1%
201	Saarland	1,319	+3.6%
202	Chemnitz	1,309	+0.3%
203	Algarve	1,303	+19.1%
204	Prov. Namur	1,264	-1.9%
205	Nordjylland	1,226	+0.2%
206	Bremen	1,160	+3.6%
207	Limousin	1,148	+7.7%
208	Kriti	1,132	-9.6%
209	Severen tsentralen	1,079	+2.5%
210	Vorarlberg	1,066	+3.3%
211	Navarre	1,061	+24.4%
212	Dytiki Elláda	1,044	+5.7%
213	Thessalia	899	+5.5%
214	Guadeloupe	849	+16.3%
215	Burgenland	839	+5.9%
216	Basilicata	818	+1.5%
217	Região Autónoma da Madeira	797	+22.4%
218	Martinique	793	+11.5%
219	Extremadura	780	+15.2%
220	Corse	766	+7%
221	Severozapaden	740	+0.8%
222	Peloponnisos	736	+8.1%
223	Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki	695	+7.8%
224	Cantabria	661	+36.9%
225	Alentejo	659	+10.2%
226	Sterea Elláda	533	+8.1%
227	Notio Aigaio	513	+3.4%
228	Trier	502	+5.7%
229	Ipeiros	494	+5.3%
230	Região Autónoma dos Açores	452	+9.2%
231	Molise	439	+1.6%
232	Dytiki Makedonia	354	+11%
233	Ionia Nisia	329	+3.5%
234	Guyane	286	+15.8%
235	Voreio Aigaio	282	+8.5%
236	Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste	261	+3.2%
237	La Rioja	226	+0.4%
238	Prov. Luxembourg (BE)	195	-20.1%
239	Åland	168	+2.4%
240	Mayotte	104	-11.1%
241	Melilla	38	+35.7%
242	Ceuta	31	-20.5%

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Number of local units of enterprises in information and communication (NACE Rev. 2 section J). A local unit is an enterprise, or part of one, at a geographically identified place, such as a factory, shop, office or warehouse. Eurostat structural business statistics by region.

Eurostat structural business statistics by region (sbs_r_nuts2021), from 2021. Counted where each unit is located, so an enterprise with shops in several regions counts once in each. Countries and NUTS 2 regions. Eurostat publishes 2021 on NUTS 2021 codes and later years on NUTS 2024 codes, so regions created in 2024 (in Portugal and the Netherlands) start in 2022. Some countries publish estimates, flagged as such.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the regions are compared on one definition. 2 regions with data in other periods have no value for 2023 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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Eurostat. Local units by NUTS 2 region, Information and communication (NACE Rev. 2 section J) (sbs_r_nuts2021). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_r_nuts2021/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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Which region has the highest local units in information and communication?

Ile-de-France, with 106,105 in 2023, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which region has the lowest local units in information and communication?

Ceuta, with 31 in 2023.

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