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I 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

I 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 ago
UK postcodes are usually _extremely_ specific. One postcode per road or even block is very normal.
- gkedzierski 3y ago
  Even 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 ago
  In contrast, the 0872 postcode in Australia covers over a million square kilometers.
  - defrost 3y ago
    Such 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/