The same idea has many names. Knowing them helps when a form, a customer or a shipping label uses a term you have not seen before.
Glossary
- ZIP code
- United States. Five digits, optional four-digit extension (ZIP+4). See What is a ZIP code?.
- Postal code
- Generic English term; also the official name in Canada, where the format is letter-digit-letter digit-letter-digit.
- Postcode
- United Kingdom, Ireland (as Eircode), Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and others.
- Eircode
- Ireland's seven-character code, introduced in 2015; each code identifies a single address.
- PIN code
- India's Postal Index Number, six digits.
- CEP
- Brazil's Código de Endereçamento Postal, eight digits written 00000-000.
- Postleitzahl (PLZ)
- Germany, Austria (four digits) and Switzerland (four digits, also called NPA in French).
- Código postal
- Spanish-speaking countries, including Mexico and Spain (five digits) and Argentina (CPA, alphanumeric).
- Code postal
- France and French-speaking countries; five digits in France.
- Postnummer
- Sweden, Norway and Denmark; four or five digits depending on the country.
- 郵便番号 (yūbin bangō)
- Japan, seven digits written 123-4567.
- 邮政编码
- Mainland China, six digits.
- 우편번호
- South Korea, five digits since 2015.
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This site's reference data covers U.S. ZIP codes and the included territories. For any other country, use the national postal operator listed in International postal codes with the complete address.