Countries that do not use postal codes
Not every country uses postal codes. In 61 of them there is simply no code to look up — mail is sorted by town and district name instead. If a form is demanding a postcode for one of these, it is the form that is wrong, not your address.
What to put in the box
Most international checkouts insist on a postal code regardless. The usual workarounds, none of which are official codes and none of which affect delivery:
- Leave it blank where the form allows it.
- Enter
00000if it insists on digits. - Enter
NA, or repeat the city name, if letters are accepted.
What matters far more is that the town and country are right, and that a P.O. Box number is included where the recipient has one.
The 61 countries and territories
Both the GeoNames country dataset and Google's international address metadata agree on every entry below.
| Country or territory | ISO | Dialling code |
|---|---|---|
| Angola | AO | +244 |
| Antarctica | AQ | + |
| Antigua and Barbuda | AG | +1-268 |
| Aruba | AW | +297 |
| Bahamas | BS | +1-242 |
| Belize | BZ | +501 |
| Benin | BJ | +229 |
| Bolivia | BO | +591 |
| Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba | BQ | +599 |
| Botswana | BW | +267 |
| Bouvet Island | BV | + |
| Burkina Faso | BF | +226 |
| Burundi | BI | +257 |
| Cameroon | CM | +237 |
| Central African Republic | CF | +236 |
| Comoros | KM | +269 |
| Cook Islands | CK | +682 |
| Curacao | CW | +599 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | CD | +243 |
| Djibouti | DJ | +253 |
| Dominica | DM | +1-767 |
| Equatorial Guinea | GQ | +240 |
| Eritrea | ER | +291 |
| Fiji | FJ | +679 |
| French Southern Territories | TF | + |
| Gabon | GA | +241 |
| Gambia | GM | +220 |
| Ghana | GH | +233 |
| Grenada | GD | +1-473 |
| Guyana | GY | +592 |
| Ivory Coast | CI | +225 |
| Jamaica | JM | +1-876 |
| Kiribati | KI | +686 |
| Libya | LY | +218 |
| Mali | ML | +223 |
| Mauritania | MR | +222 |
| Montserrat | MS | +1-664 |
| Netherlands Antilles | AN | +599 |
| Palestinian Territory | PS | +970 |
| Qatar | QA | +974 |
| Republic of the Congo | CG | +242 |
| Rwanda | RW | +250 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | KN | +1-869 |
| Saint Lucia | LC | +1-758 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | ST | +239 |
| Seychelles | SC | +248 |
| Sierra Leone | SL | +232 |
| Sint Maarten | SX | +599 |
| Solomon Islands | SB | +677 |
| South Sudan | SS | +211 |
| Suriname | SR | +597 |
| Syria | SY | +963 |
| Timor Leste | TL | +670 |
| Togo | TG | +228 |
| Tokelau | TK | +690 |
| Tonga | TO | +676 |
| Tuvalu | TV | +688 |
| Uganda | UG | +256 |
| Vanuatu | VU | +678 |
| Yemen | YE | +967 |
| Zimbabwe | ZW | +263 |
24 where the sources disagree
These are listed separately and deliberately. One reference says a postal code format exists, the other says none does — so we publish no code data for them rather than pick a side. Treat any code you find elsewhere for these with suspicion, and check with the country's postal operator.
| Country or territory | ISO | GeoNames says | Google says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | AF | — | \d{4} |
| Bhutan | BT | — | \d{5} |
| British Virgin Islands | VG | — | VG\d{4} |
| Cayman Islands | KY | — | KY\d-\d{4} |
| Chad | TD | TKCA 1ZZ | — |
| Guinea | GN | — | \d{3} |
| Hong Kong | HK | ###### | — |
| Kosovo | XK | — | [1-7]\d{4} |
| Macao | MO | ###### | — |
| Malawi | MW | ###### | — |
| Mauritius | MU | — | \d{3}(?:\d{2}|[A-Z]{2}\d |
| Namibia | NA | — | \d{5} |
| Nauru | NR | NRU68 | — |
| Niue | NU | #### | — |
| North Korea | KP | ###-### | — |
| Panama | PA | ##### | — |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | VC | — | VC\d{4} |
| Samoa | WS | AS 96799 | — |
| Serbia and Montenegro | CS | ##### | — |
| Tanzania | TZ | — | \d{4,5} |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TT | — | \d{6} |
| United Arab Emirates | AE | ##### ##### | — |
| United States Minor Outlying Islands | UM | — | 96898 |
| Western Sahara | EH | — | \d{5} |