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List Of Postal Codes For lists of individual countries' postal and ZIP Codes around the world, please refer to the lists of postal codes index. This list shows an overview of postal code notation schemes for all countries that use postal/ZIP codes: Key - 9: Digits.
- A: Letters.
- *: Postal code placed to the right of the city, suburb or town.
A-B - Afghanistan : None
- Algeria: 99999
- Andorra: (AD-)999 each parish now has its own post code. See Postal services in Andorra.
- Argentina: A9999AAA
- Armenia: 999999 Retained system inherited from former Soviet Union.
- Australia: known as the "post code": 9999*. In general, the first digit identifies the state or territory. See List of postal codes in Australia
- Austria: 9999 (the first digit denotes almost one of the nine provinces -- called Bundeslnder --, the last the nearest post office in the area)
- Azerbaijan: (AZ-)9999 Previously used 999999 system inherited from former Soviet Union.
- Bahrain: 999 or 9999 Variable 3-4 digit codes apparently?
- Bangladesh: 9999*
- Belarus: 999999 Retained system inherited from former Soviet Union.
- Belgium: 9999 (in general, the first digit gives the province) List of postal codes in Belgium
- Bermuda: AA 99* for street addresses, AA AA* for PO Box addresses. The second half of the postcode identifies the street delivery walk (eg: Hamilton HM 12) or the PO Box number range (eg: Hamilton HM BX).
- Bosnia Hercegovina: 99999
- Brazil: 99999-999 (previously 99999, from 1972 to 1992) -000 to -899 are used for Streets, Roads, Avenues, Boulevards, -900 to -959 are used for places with a high postal use, -960 to -969 are for promotional use, -970 to -989 are public owned post offices and -990 is used in franchised post offices.
- Brunei: AA9999*
- Bulgaria: 9999 (not sure what side it's placed on)
C - Cambodia: 99999*
- Canada: A9A 9A9* Usually prefixed by a two-letter abbreviation for the province or territory. See Canadian postal code. The letters D, F, I, O, Q, and U are excluded from all zip codes for being confused with other letters.
- Cape Verde: 9999
- Chile: 9999999 May only be required for bulk mail.
- Chad: 99999
- China, People's Republic of (Mainland): 999999*. A postal code or youbian (邮编) in a subordinate division will have the same first two digits as its governing one (see Political divisions of China#Levels and Postal Code).
- The postal services in Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions remain separate from Mainland China. Plans for separate post code systems in Hong Kong and Macau are currently under development. See UPU documents on Hong Kong and Macau
- China, Republic of (based on Taiwan): 99999*, known as youdi chyuhao (郵遞區號). Postal codes are also assigned to Senkaku Islands, though Japanese-governed, the Pratas Islands and the Spratly Islands.
- Christmas Island: 9999
- Cocos (Keeling) Island: 9999
- Colombia: none in use
- Costa Rica: 9999
- Croatia: 99999
- Cuba: 99999* Prefixed by "CP" - may only be required for bulk mail.
- Cyprus: 9999 - Post code system covers whole island, but not used in Northern Cyprus where 'Mersin 10, Turkey' is used instead. Incoming mail asks that CY- is preceding the postcode. Supposivly 9999-9999 covers the whole island (including the north). See Postal_services_in_Cyprus for more information.
- Czech Republic: 999 99 Retained system inherited from Czechoslovakia.
D-F - Denmark: 9999 also used by Greenland, eg: DK-3900 Nuuk
- Dominican Republic: 99999-9999 Currently only used in Santo Domingo.
- East Timor: None in use since Indonesian withdrawal in 1999.
- Egypt 99999*
- El Salvador: 9999 - Prefixed by "CP".
- Estonia: 99999
- Ethiopia: 9999
- Faroe Islands: 999 Prefixed with "FO", eg: FO-110 Trshavn
- Finland: 99999. A lower first digit indicates a place in south (for example 00100 Helsinki, a higher indicates a place in far the north (99800 in Ivalo). The last digit is always 0, except for postal codes for PO Box number ranges, in which case it is 1. In the land Islands, the postal code is prefixed with "AX", not "FIN". New country code for Finland: "FI".
- Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: 9999
- France: 99999, the first two digits give the dpartement number, while in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, the last two digits of the postal code indicates the arrondissement. Also used by French overseas departments and territories and Monaco (prefixed "MC"). See List of French postal codes.
- French Polynesia: 98899 Based on the France Postal System. But, has the whole 988 set (988##). Ex: 98832, 98822
G-K L-M N-P R-T U-Z and See also Postal codes, List of
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