Country
United Kingdom
Region
Europe
Format
A(A)N(N)(A) NAA

What is United Kingdom Postal Code?

Postal codes in United Kingdom (also known as ZIP codes) are alphanumeric codes used by the postal service to identify specific geographic areas for efficient mail sorting and delivery. The postal code format in Europe is Northern Europe. These codes help ensure your mail and packages reach their destination accurately and quickly.

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How to Address Mail to United Kingdom

Standard Address Format (click to edit)
RecipientJohn Doe
Street123 Example Street
City & PostalA(A)N(N)(A) NAA London
CountryUNITED KINGDOM

Addressing Tips for United Kingdom

  • Postal code format: A(A)N(N)(A) NAA
  • Write postal code before the city name
  • Country name in UPPERCASE on last line
  • Capital: London
  • ISO country code: GB

Shipping to United Kingdom

United Kingdom
Domestic Delivery
1-3 days
Within United Kingdom
International
7-21 days
Varies by origin
Customs Threshold
£135
Duty-free limit

Local Carriers in United Kingdom

Royal Mail Yodel Evri (Hermes) DPD

United Kingdom: International Carriers

DHL FedEx UPS

Shipping Tips (United Kingdom)

  • Always include postal code in format A(A)N(N)(A) NAA for faster delivery
  • Items above £135 may incur customs duties
  • Track your package using the carrier's tracking number
  • Consider insurance for valuable shipments

United Kingdom Location Information

United Kingdom, Europe Map
  • Region Europe
  • Subregion Northern Europe
  • Capital London
  • Phone Code +44
  • Currency GBP
  • Coordinates 54, -2
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Popular Cities in United Kingdom

247 States Postal Codes in United Kingdom

State Latitude Longitude
Aberdeen 57.15 -2.094
Aberdeenshire 57.287 -2.382
Angus 52.852 -2.43
Antrim 54.72 -6.207
Antrim and Newtownabbey 54.696 -5.948
Ards 53.772 -2.689
Ards and North Down 54.59 -5.598
Argyll and Bute 56.401 -5.481
Armagh City and District Council 54.393 -6.456
Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon 54.393 -6.456
Ascension Island 53.245 -2.82
Ballymena Borough 54.864 -6.279
Ballymoney 55.07 -6.517
Banbridge 54.349 -6.27
Barnsley 53.765 -2.647
Bath and North East Somerset 51.325 -2.477
Bedford 53.674 -2.687
Belfast district 54.617 -5.953
Birmingham 53.747 -2.395
Blackburn with Darwen 53.696 -2.468
Blackpool 53.818 -3.036
Blaenau Gwent County Borough 51.788 -3.204
Bolton 52.823 -2.244
Bournemouth 50.719 -1.881
Bracknell Forest 51.415 -0.754
Bradford 53.796 -1.759
Bridgend County Borough 51.508 -3.581
Brighton and Hove 50.823 -0.137
Buckinghamshire 51.807 -0.813
Bury 53.593 -2.297
Caerphilly County Borough 51.66 -3.218
Calderdale 53.725 -1.866
Cambridgeshire 52.205 0.122
Carmarthenshire 51.857 -4.312
Carrickfergus Borough Council 54.726 -5.809
Castlereagh 54.576 -5.888
Causeway Coast and Glens 55.043 -6.674
Central Bedfordshire 52.003 -0.465
Ceredigion 52.219 -3.932
Cheshire East 53.161 -2.219
Cheshire West and Chester 53.23 -2.715
City and County of Cardiff 51.482 -3.179
City and County of Swansea 51.621 -3.944
City of Bristol 53.286 -2.432
City of Derby 53.382 -2.226
City of Kingston upon Hull 53.768 -0.327
City of Leicester 52.637 -1.14
City of London 51.512 -0.091
City of Nottingham 52.955 -1.158
City of Peterborough 53.573 -2.344
City of Plymouth 53.042 -3.191
City of Portsmouth 52.923 -2.408
City of Southampton 50.91 -1.404
City of Stoke-on-Trent 53.003 -2.179
City of Sunderland 54.886 -1.479
City of Westminster 52.975 -2.436
City of Wolverhampton 52.589 -2.156
City of York 53.96 -1.087
Clackmannanshire 56.108 -3.753
Coleraine Borough Council 55.145 -6.676
Conwy County Borough 53.294 -3.727
Cookstown District Council 54.642 -6.744
Cornwall 50.266 -5.053
County Durham 54.729 -1.881
Coventry 52.407 -1.52
Craigavon Borough Council 54.393 -6.456
Cumbria 54.577 -2.797
Darlington 53.442 -2.8
Denbighshire 53.184 -3.422
Derbyshire 53.105 -1.562
Derry City and Strabane 55.005 -7.321
Derry City Council 54.969 -7.196
Devon 50.716 -3.531
Doncaster 53.523 -1.128
Dorset 50.749 -2.344
Down District Council 54.243 -5.958
Dudley 52.927 -2.325
Dumfries and Galloway 55.07 -3.605
Dundee 56.462 -2.971
Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council 54.508 -6.767
East Ayrshire 55.452 -4.264
East Dunbartonshire 55.974 -4.202
East Lothian 55.949 -2.77
East Renfrewshire 55.77 -4.336
East Riding of Yorkshire 53.842 -0.434
East Sussex 50.909 0.249
Edinburgh 55.953 -3.188
England 52.356 -1.174
Essex 51.574 0.486
Falkirk 56.002 -3.784
Fermanagh and Omagh 54.451 -7.713
Fermanagh District Council 54.345 -7.638
Fife 56.208 -3.15
Flintshire 53.167 -3.142
Gateshead 54.953 -1.603
Glasgow 55.864 -4.252
Gloucestershire 51.864 -2.238
Gwynedd 52.928 -4.133
Halton 53.431 -2.398
Hampshire 51.058 -1.308
Hartlepool 54.692 -1.213
Herefordshire 52.077 -2.654
Hertfordshire 51.81 -0.238
Highland 53.083 -3.01
Inverclyde 55.932 -4.68
Isle of Wight 50.694 -1.305
Isles of Scilly 49.928 -6.327
Kent 53.091 -2.756
Kirklees 53.593 -1.801
Knowsley 53.455 -2.853
Lancashire 53.763 -2.704
Larne Borough Council 54.858 -5.824
Leeds 53.801 -1.549
Leicestershire 52.773 -1.205
Limavady Borough Council 55.052 -6.949
Lincolnshire 52.945 -0.16
Lisburn and Castlereagh 54.498 -6.131
Lisburn City Council 54.498 -6.131
Liverpool 53.006 -2.794
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham 51.554 0.134
London Borough of Barnet 51.605 -0.208
London Borough of Bexley 51.452 0.117
London Borough of Brent 51.567 -0.271
London Borough of Bromley 51.368 0.07
London Borough of Camden 51.545 -0.163
London Borough of Croydon 51.383 -0.099
London Borough of Ealing 51.525 -0.341
London Borough of Enfield 51.662 -0.118
London Borough of Hackney 51.573 -0.072
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham 51.499 -0.229
London Borough of Haringey 51.591 -0.111
London Borough of Harrow 51.588 -0.342
London Borough of Havering 51.578 0.212
London Borough of Hillingdon 51.535 -0.448
London Borough of Hounslow 51.483 -0.388
London Borough of Islington 51.547 -0.106
London Borough of Lambeth 51.457 -0.123
London Borough of Lewisham 51.441 -0.012
London Borough of Merton 51.41 -0.211
London Borough of Newham 51.526 0.035
London Borough of Redbridge 51.589 0.082
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames 51.461 -0.304
London Borough of Southwark 51.488 -0.076
London Borough of Sutton 51.357 -0.175
London Borough of Tower Hamlets 51.52 -0.029
London Borough of Waltham Forest 51.589 -0.012
London Borough of Wandsworth 51.457 -0.19
Magherafelt District Council 54.755 -6.608
Manchester 53.481 -2.243
Medway 53.044 -2.367
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough 51.747 -3.381
Metropolitan Borough of Wigan 53.513 -2.611
Mid and East Antrim 54.94 -6.114
Mid Ulster 54.641 -6.752
Middlesbrough 54.574 -1.235
Midlothian 53.087 -2.421
Milton Keynes 52.085 -0.733
Monmouthshire 51.812 -2.716
Moray 57.65 -3.317
Moyle District Council 55.205 -6.253
Neath Port Talbot County Borough 51.598 -3.784
Newcastle upon Tyne 54.978 -1.618
Newport 53.573 -3.174
Newry and Mourne District Council 54.174 -6.339
Newry, Mourne and Down 54.243 -5.958
Newtownabbey Borough Council 54.679 -5.959
Norfolk 53.647 -2.423
North Ayrshire 55.642 -4.759
North Down Borough Council 54.654 -5.672
North East Lincolnshire 53.567 -0.082
North Lanarkshire 55.866 -3.961
North Lincolnshire 53.606 -0.56
North Somerset 51.388 -2.778
North Tyneside 55.018 -1.486
North Yorkshire 53.992 -1.541
Northamptonshire 52.273 -0.876
Northern Ireland 54.788 -6.492
Northumberland 55.208 -2.078
Nottinghamshire 53.1 -0.994
Oldham 53.727 -2.607
Omagh District Council 54.451 -7.713
Orkney Islands 58.981 -2.961
Outer Hebrides 57.76 -7.019
Oxfordshire 51.761 -1.246
Pembrokeshire 51.674 -4.909
Perth and Kinross 56.395 -3.428
Poole 50.715 -1.987
Powys 52.646 -3.326
Reading 53.539 -2.884
Redcar and Cleveland 54.597 -1.078
Renfrewshire 55.847 -4.533
Rhondda Cynon Taf 51.649 -3.429
Rochdale 53.61 -2.156
Rotherham 53.433 -1.364
Royal Borough of Greenwich 51.483 0.059
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 51.499 -0.194
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames 51.378 -0.293
Rutland 53.691 -2.586
Saint Helena 52.856 -2.878
Salford 53.488 -2.29
Sandwell 52.536 -2.011
Scotland 56.491 -4.203
Scottish Borders 55.549 -2.786
Sefton 53.503 -2.97
Sheffield 52.897 -2.242
Shetland Islands 60.53 -1.266
Shropshire 52.706 -2.742
Slough 51.511 -0.595
Solihull 52.412 -1.778
Somerset 51.105 -2.926
South Ayrshire 55.459 -4.629
South Gloucestershire 51.526 -2.473
South Lanarkshire 55.674 -3.782
South Tyneside 54.964 -1.442
Southend-on-Sea 51.546 0.708
St Helens 53.33 -2.653
Staffordshire 52.879 -2.057
Stirling 56.117 -3.937
Stockport 53.411 -2.158
Stockton-on-Tees 54.57 -1.329
Strabane District Council 54.827 -7.463
Suffolk 52.187 0.971
Surrey 51.315 -0.56
Swindon 51.556 -1.78
Tameside 53.481 -2.081
Telford and Wrekin 52.741 -2.487
Thurrock 51.493 0.353
Torbay 50.439 -3.537
Torfaen 51.7 -3.045
Trafford 53.04 -2.578
United Kingdom 55.378 -3.436
Vale of Glamorgan 51.41 -3.485
Wakefield 53.685 -3.068
Wales 52.131 -3.784
Walsall 52.586 -1.983
Warrington 52.913 -2.466
Warwickshire 52.267 -1.468
West Berkshire 51.431 -1.144
West Dunbartonshire 55.945 -4.565
West Lothian 55.907 -3.552
West Sussex 50.928 -0.462
Wiltshire 51.349 -1.993
Windsor and Maidenhead 51.48 -0.624
Wirral 53.373 -3.074
Wokingham 51.41 -0.834
Worcestershire 52.255 -2.267
Wrexham County Borough 53.03 -3.026

Did You Know?

United Kingdom has 247 provinces/states and 3,871 cities/districts in its postal system.
United Kingdom is located in Europe and uses the British Pound (GBP) as its official currency.

Frequently Asked Questions

The postal code format in United Kingdom is A(A)N(N)(A) NAA. Postal codes help ensure efficient mail sorting and delivery.
United Kingdom has 247 states. Each has its own set of postal codes for efficient mail delivery.
The capital of United Kingdom is London.
The international phone code for United Kingdom is +44.
The official currency of United Kingdom is British Pound (GBP).
United Kingdom is located in the Northern Europe subregion of Europe, at coordinates 54.00000000, -2.00000000.
Standard international mail to United Kingdom typically takes 7-21 business days. Express services (DHL, FedEx, UPS) deliver in 3-7 business days.
Common prohibited items for United Kingdom include flammable materials, explosives, narcotics, and perishable goods. Check with your carrier for the complete list of restricted items.
United Kingdom uses a postal code system. The term 'ZIP code' is specific to the United States. Most countries refer to their system as 'postal codes' or 'postcodes'.
You can track packages sent to United Kingdom using the tracking number provided by your carrier. Visit the carrier's website (DHL, FedEx, UPS, or the national postal service) and enter your tracking number.
United Kingdom in Other Languages
Nearby Countries
Country Distance Latitude Longitude
Isle of Man 165 km 54.25 -4.5
Ireland 412 km 53 -8
Guernsey and Alderney 506 km 49.467 -2.583
Jersey 528 km 49.25 -2.167
Belgium 538 km 50.833 4
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