• Postal codes were introduced in France in 1964, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. They were updated to use the current 5 digit system in 1972...
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    NS NL YT NT NU A Canadian postal code (French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. Like British, Irish...
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  • Postal codes were adopted in Ghana on 18 October 2017, following the launch of the National Digital Address System. As a joint venture between Ghana Post...
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    In Poland, postal codes were introduced in 1973. They are five-digit codes of two-then-three digits, with a hyphen between them. The first digit indicates...
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  • country code The use of the country codes in conjunction with postal codes started as a recommendation from CEPT (European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications...
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    Postal codes in Belgium are numeric and consist of 4 numbers. The first digit indicates the province (except for the 3xxx numbers that are shared by the...
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    countries which require the use of a postal code. Although postal codes are usually assigned to geographical areas, special codes are sometimes assigned to individual...
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  • Postal codes in Nigeria are numeric, consisting of six digits. NIPOST, the Nigerian Postal Service, divides the country into nine regions, which make up...
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  • Spanish postal codes were introduced on 1 July 1984, when the Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos introduced automated mail sorting. They consist...
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    Territories, American Samoa (postal abbreviation AS) uses zip code 96799, and Guam (postal abbreviation GU) uses zip codes in the range 96910–96932. Each...
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  • Postal codes in Malaysia, usually referred to as postcodes (Malay: poskod), are five digit numeric. The first two digits of the postcode denote the state...
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  • Postal codes in Andorra were introduced in July 2004. As postal services in Andorra are run by Correos of Spain and La Poste of France, postal codes were...
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  • Postal codes in Tunisia are four digit numbers. The first two digits of the postal code denote the Governorates of Tunisia. Listed below are the first...
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  • Postal codes were introduced in South Africa on 8 October 1973, with the introduction of automated sorting. South African postal codes consist of four...
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  • In Algeria, the postal codes of province capitals are composed of the province code as in ISO 3166-2:DZ and three zeros, for example: 16000 for Algiers...
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  • Post codes in Mauritius consist of five digits (or a letter and four digits for an island). They were first introduced by Mauritius Post on a pilot basis...
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  • extensive regional sorting. In addition, several provinces have postal codes that begin with different letters. The codes replaced the inconsistent traditional...
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  • After 28 years without a postal code system in Namibia, the national postal service provider NamPost introduced new postal codes in December 2018. They consist...
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    name. Some addresses also contain special codes, such as a postal code, to make identification easier and aid in the routing of mail. Addresses provide a...
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  • (number) Ariège (department) (postal code), a French department Auckland, New Zealand, which has the telephone area code 09. 09 (film), 2021 Kurdish crime...
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    territory still in existence after 1922, Kouang Tchéou was the only French postal entity in China to issue airmail stamps and semi-postal stamps, although...
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    Dublin 6 West D6W PV38 Republic of Ireland postal addresses List of Dublin postal districts List of postal codes "What is Eircode?". Eircode.ie. July 2015...
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    ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization...
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    side-by-side. However, the postal code system, introduced in July 2004, has a different format from those of either Spain or France, consisting of the letters...
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  • arrondissements are used in the five-digit postal codes of France. The first two digits are the number of the département in which the address is located...
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  • end of the list. The departmental codes are also best known as part of the French postal codes; but the postal codes do not include the INSEE commune numbers...
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    and Irish codes within a barred diamond.: 10, 102 & 114–115  Codes corresponding to London postal districts e.g. W21 were also used. Coded obliterators...
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    List of municipalities of Algeria, and for the postal code of an Algerian city, see list of postal codes of Algerian cities. Adrar (68 276) Aïn Defla (65...
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    villages and settlements in Ondo State, Nigeria organised by local government area (LGA) and district/area (with postal codes also given). Below is a list...
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    Posts, d/b/a India Post, is an Indian public sector postal system statutory body headquartered in New Delhi, India. It is an organisation under the Ministry...
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