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Another UK Postcode oddity is Gibraltar which has GX111AA as the postcode for the entire country
by zubairq 3y ago
Another UK Postcode oddity is Gibraltar which has GX111AA as the postcode for the entire country
- NeoTar 3y agoA lot of the British Overseas territories have adopted similar postcodes (e.g. ASCN 1ZZ for Ascension Island) Although it’s disputable whether they are a part of the UK, or separate administrations that have postcodes designed to look like a UK postcode!
- TMWNN 3y agoThe US postcode system includes three countries that aren't part of the US at all! <https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-US-Possessions-US-Territories-and-Freely-Associated-States-are-Considered-Domestic https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-US-Possessions-US-Territ...>
- krisoft 3y agoI don't know if that is so odd to me. Gibraltar is 6.8 sq km. The post code where I have grown up in east-europe is roughly 7 sq km. So to me that makes perfect sense as a post code. Is there a rule on how big a post code is supposed to be? (Now, my current postcode in the UK is just the single house. That for example feels way too small to me.)
- madeofpalk 3y agoUK postcodes are usually _extremely_ specific. One postcode per road or even block is very normal.
- gkedzierski 3y agoEven more so. Some buildings I lived in had several postcodes. (e.g. some apartments in the building had one postcode assigned, and others had a different one)
- NeoTar 3y ago[According to Wikipedia] the aim is to have one post-code per fifteen addresses. Which means that unlike (5 digit) ZIP codes and German Postal codes, UK Postcodes are typically pretty useful for navigation - people will often enter a postcode into a Sat-Nav to reach a home or business. However, sometimes this can entirely fail - e.g. for a historic house on a large estate which may have access some hundreds of meters away from the postcode indicated location, and so sometimes you'll see a separate postcode to put into your Sat-Nav !
- Perenti 3y agoIn contrast, the 0872 postcode in Australia covers over a million square kilometers.
- defrost 3y agoSuch that the 229km each way Finke Desert Race (Alice Springs <--> Aputula) has the same postcode all the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDI7GejJSjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDI7GejJSjk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finke_Desert_Race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finke_Desert_Race https://post-code.net.au/postcode/0872/ https://post-code.net.au/postcode/0872/
- donpott 3y agoGibraltar is not a country
- rsynnott 3y agoA very extreme variant of this is Hong Kong, a country of over 7 million people, which the Chinese postal service allocates _one_ postcode to. (AIUI this postcode isn't widely used outside of China).
- f4c39012 3y agoMost of the time in HK the postcode of "0" or "00000" is used when a zip code is required
- switch007 3y ago> the entire country City/overseas territory*