Uk Territories Covered by Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF) and the Ideal Postcodes APIs
Updated 30 Dec 2020
The PAF dataset covers the UK only. This includes:
With respect to our API the following datapoints are returned
Country | Country Field (country) |
Post Town Field (post_town) |
Example Postcode (postcode) |
ISO Code (Alpha 2, 3) |
---|---|---|---|---|
England | England |
Any English post town, e.g. LONDON |
SW1A 2AA |
GB or GBR |
Scotland | Scotland |
Any Scottish post town, e.g. ABERDEEN |
AB10 1BJ |
GB or GBR |
Wales | Wales |
Any Welsh post town, e.g. CARDIFF |
CF5 6HG |
GB or GBR |
Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland |
Any Northern Irish post town, e.g. BELFAST |
BT1 2JE |
GB or GBR |
Guernsey | Channel Islands |
Only GUERNSEY |
GY1 1BB |
GG or GGY |
Jersey | Channel Islands |
Only JERSEY |
JE1 1JP |
JE or JEY |
Isle of Man | Isle of Man |
Only ISLE OF MAN |
IM1 4AU |
IM or IMN |
Channel Islands
as the country
field but Isle of Man returns Isle of Man
GY
JE
IM
BT
post_town
fields are the territories uppercasedRepublic of Ireland addressing data can be retrieved via the Eircodes dataset maintained by the Government of Ireland.
Unfortunately, we do not provide support for this dataset. Consider using a specialised data vendor.