Supported Territories

UK territories covered by Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF) and the Ideal Postcodes APIs

Updated 23 Nov 2020

The PAF dataset covers the UK only. This includes:

Datapoints Returned by the API

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`

Guernsey and Jersey always return Channel Islands as the country field but Isle of Man returns Isle of Man
Guernsey always begin GY
Jersey postcodes always begin JE
Isle of Man postcodes always begin IM
Northern Ireland postcodes always begin BT
Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey post_town fields are the territories uppercased

Republic 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.