postal code

series of letters and digits for sorting mail
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postal code

Summary

postal code ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,636 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • postal code is a type of administrative territorial entity identifier[2].
  • postal code is a type of nominal number[3].
  • postal code is part of address[4].
  • postal code's Commons category is recorded as Postal codes[5].
  • postal code's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Postal codes[6].
  • postal code's Commons gallery is recorded as Postal codes[7].
  • postal code's described at URL is recorded as https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-placetypes#postalcode[8].
  • postal code's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as boundary=postal_code[9].
  • postal code's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/postal-code[10].
  • postal code's main Wikidata property is recorded as P281[11].
  • postal code's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000646[12].
  • postal code's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C25621[13].
  • postal code's P14541 is recorded as 1fKACr[14].
  • postal code's P14692 is recorded as Isabela[15].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include administrative territorial entity identifier[2] and nominal number[3].

Use and Application

postal code is part of address[4].

Why It Matters

postal code ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,636 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX529875
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX529875"
  2. 25d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000646
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000646"
  3. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Isabela
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48942|batch #48942]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  4. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1fKACr
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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