Postal Code Database

A Comprehensive Postal Code/Zipcode Database


Brief Intro To World Postal Codes Product

Before we beigin, its important to differentiate between postal code and zip code. The two codes are essentially the same in their purpose/use, but the term zip codes is mainly used in the USA whereas postal code is commonly used in other countries. ZIP Codes are postal codes used exclusively in the United States, and the basic format consists of five digits whereas a postal code is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation in itself. Moving on, the term ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan. It was chosen to suggest that the mail/couriers/packages travels more efficiently and quickly when senders use the code in the postal address. And what we offer here? Here's a very comprehensive and accurate Zip Code Database for Your business!! Also, We are very proud to say that we offer postal codes for almost 91 countries in our database. Each postal code has a associated latitude, longitude associated with it as well. Our organization is pioneer in this industry since 2006 and has numerous customers ranging from freelancers, individual contributors, small enterprises(SME), small-to-medium-sized business (SMB) and large enterprises who procure the zip code solutions for their web products from us. You will find detailed information of each zipcode in the world in our database. Each city, state and country record undergoes a predefined set of criteria before it is added to the database.

Postal Cities Database is the crux of any business solution dealing with ecommerce or online delivery solutions. Without the right dataset, it would be difficult to capture your customer information or offer them solutions around your business needs. We provide the data in tab delimited files for zipcodes database with easy instructions to load the data into a MySQL or Microsoft SQL. You are also free to use any programming language of your choice to read the data from the flat files. As well, a rich text open source editor like Notepad++ can also be used to open the flat files to view postal codes for any city in the flat files. Each zipcode in the database is associated with its city, country and administrative division(also referred at state in some countries) to reduce the number of ambiguities.The dataset schema in published on this same page for your reference.

We take the actuality of our data seriously. Whenever there is a major update, we inform all clients via email with the download link and instructions. The data contained in our city database is checked regularly and updated directly with the data we acquire from our various sources. For the data that can't be gathered via official sources, we make sure the missing data is included in the database by using publicly accessible information. At this moment, we do not offer any multi languages country names, region names, city names. Entire dataset is in English. We believe in transparency and hence have furnished the information upfront as we get many enquiries around the multi language support of countries and cities in the database. We hope you like what you see here. Please bookmark our site or add it to your favorites and come back again! As the fastest growing postal codes data provider, we are always expanding the variety and the amount of data we provide. Our postal code database is in productive and commercial use for more than 14 years in many places around the world.

These are our unique advantages that find our customers very compelling to use our postal code database:
  • We aggregate postal codes database from authorized sources like USPS and other paid premium data aggregation agencies
  • We are one of the oldest in this business since 2006
  • Latitude and Longitude info for each postal code
  • Unconditional free one year postal codes updates after one time purchase
  • Instant database download after purchase
  • Database schema customization based on your business needs


Postal Code Database Highlights

Includes 3,156,153(3 million) postal codes in the database for around 93 countries. Do check for required country if listed or not in the sample demo

Latitude and longitude geo-coordinates are also included for each city

For Chile,Malta, Canada and Ireland we have only the first letters of the full postal codes (for copyright reasons)

One year free updates without any extra cost

Easy instructions to load dataset into Microsoft SQL and MySQL database
For other database formats, please email support@worldcitiesdatabase.com for updated pricing

Latitude and Longitude info for each postal code

Open source postal zipcode sample on GitHub

Database last Updated - Sep 2024

Price: Download Postal CodeDatabase

Database Schema


Postalcodes Table
FieldName Description
id Unique id for a location
countrycode Two letter country code
postalcode Postal code of the city/place
city_name/placeName City/SubArea Name
Country Country Name
State State/Admin Division Name
latitude Latitude
longitude Longitude

Postal Codes Sample Records

We have hosted data for few postal codes samples from the database. Remember!!! Only few records are shown for each country and city in the demo.
Click Here to Check Sample zipcodes/postal codes online
 

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