Faroe Islands Postal Codes

Faroe Islands uses postal codes in the format ### (# = digit, @ = letter).

130 postal codes are recorded for Faroe Islands in the open data sources below.

Postal codes by town and city

119 places in Faroe Islands have a recorded postal code. The 0 largest have their own page; the rest are listed alphabetically.

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Example postal codes

• 100

Postal codes by place

The 60 places in Faroe Islands with the most postal codes recorded, listed alphabetically. Larger towns link to their own page.

How an address is written in Faroe Islands

This is the order Faroe Islands's postal service expects. Square brackets mark what you replace.

[Recipient name]
[Street address]
FO[Postal code (100)] [City]
FAROE ISLANDS

A postal code is optional in Faroe Islands addresses — mail is deliverable without one, though including it speeds up sorting.

Look up a specific address

For the code covering one particular street or building, Faroe Islands's postal service publishes an official finder: posta.fo/en/private/send-receive/postcodes. It is authoritative and kept current, which third-party copies often are not.

Country reference

Sources and licensing

Postal code data from GeoNames, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Address formats and validation rules derive from Google's international address metadata, cross-checked against Universal Postal Union addressing standards. Last verified August 2026. Confirm time-critical addresses with the destination country's postal operator.