International
ZIP
Code Database
Enterprise-grade location data covering 247 countries, curated from 1,500 sources.
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One source of truth
Standardized structure
Always up-to-date
Regular updates from our data specialists to reflect the world’s changing geography.
Key features of our international ZIP code database
Fully and accurately geocoded
Geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) are provided for all ZIP codes, cities, and towns in the WGS 84 coordinate system.
Achieve global geocoding accuracy"GeoPostcodes has helped us enrich our internal data with accurate coordinates for postal code matching on a global basis. We calculate distances between the customer’s home address and different event venues to calculate event relevance and optimize marketing activities and spending."
Dr. Timo
Head of Customer Analytics & Campaign Management, Eventim
Self-hosted
Self-hosted delivery for enhanced security, compliance, and performance at a fixed cost, no matter the volume.
"We replaced costly APIs and simplified our location data management thanks to GeoPostcodes. Life without it would be complicated."
Nick Beaugié
Senior Software Engineer, Randstad
Multi-language support
All official address names across 299 languages, including local languages, foreign names, English, and transliterations into the Roman alphabet.
"Our users value the completeness of the data, and its multi-language features. Working in a country with 3 official languages, GeoPostcodes helps us cover the needs of our patients who can input city names in English, French, or Dutch."
Antoine Pairet
CTO, Rosa
Comprehensive city definitions
Standard city definitions and classifications, including OECD metropole, capital, primary city, suburbs, and relative importance.
Discover the cities database"A city could receive different names or belong to different hierarchical levels depending on the country. Switching to GeoPostcodes’ cities database clarified the city concept and aligned with our customers’ expectations, saving us computation time."
Kousha Mazloumi
Director of Data Science, Brizo
Administrative divisions
Comprehensive list of administrative levels per country, integrated into our data with regions up to 4 levels.
"We needed a global locations structure covering places and administrative divisions; after building one with GeoNames, we found limitations, especially around postal code coverage. Ultimately, we decided to base our taxonomy entirely on GeoPostcodes’ curated data for admin divisions and postal codes."
Nick Beaugié
Senior Software Engineer, Randstad
UNLOCODE and IATA codes
A clean list of geocoded Logistics locations associated with their closest ZIP codes and cities.
Enhanced UNLOCODE and port terminals data"GeoPostcodes provides complete sets, which means IATA, codes, UNLOCODEs, addresses, and so on, and that on a global scale. These codes are essential for our sea, air, and ferry calculations."
Dr. Peter Wild
Managing Partner at CarbonCare
Time zones and DST
A complete list of time zones for each ZIP code and city in the world. Future and past dates of Daylight Saving Time changes worldwide are also provided.
Use cases for the international ZIP code database
Powering enterprise solutions and product innovation for businesses worldwide
Address Validation
Capture accurate addresses for every country and territory in the world, in any language, and match local requirements.
Reporting and business intelligence
Ensure compliant and accurate reports across your organization. Enhance data analysis with location intelligence.
Logistics and shipping
Design and optimize your distribution network, plan your pick-up and drop-off locations, reduce costs and improve visibility over your shipping.
Map and visualization
Analyze complex trends and discover actionable insights. Build engaging and intuitive map-based data visualizations.
Master data management
Rely on a single source of truth to ensure accuracy, consistency, and timeliness across your systems and organization.
Sales and marketing
Segment customers for site selection, analytics, geofencing, campaigns, mapping, and targeted ads.
Trusted by industry leaders
Join more than 100 enterprise clients who trust GeoPostcodes for their location data
Anjo Grebe
Consultant
Dr. Peter Wild
Managing Partner
Kousha Mazloumi
Director of Data Science
Kousha Mazloumi
Director of Data Science
William Chao
Product Owner of Geographic Information Services
Kate Kilby
Senior Product Manager
Dave Hamm
Project Manager
Kavian Ranjbar
Data Governance Specialist
Nick Beaugié
Senior Software Engineer
Why choose GeoPostcodes
Global coverage
Complete coverage across 247 countries, including hard-to-source geographies like China, Japan, Brazil, and Russia.
Highest quality
Built on extensive, authoritative sourcing with robust data engineering and quality control. Standardized and up-to-date.
Expert Consulting
With 15 years of experience, we guide your implementation and deliver data in the format that fits your system.
How to integrate our self-hosted database
Flexible deployment, seamless integration and structured updates, all within your own infrastructure.
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Choose your delivery method
Select the delivery option that fits your infrastructure.
Download the full database directly from your Customer Portal.
Retrieve the full files via API for automated ingestion into your pipeline.
Access the data in your cloud environment: Snowflake, Azure Data Share or AWS.
2
Integrate into your system
Import the data easily into any software, database, ERP, CRM, MDM, GIS, BI and GIS system.
3
Stay up to date
Frequent updates will keep your data always up-to-date.
Download full, updated datasets to refresh your system.
Retrieve only the new, updated and deleted records to ensure integrity and traceability.
Data dictionary
Comprehensive field definitions and data specifications from GeoPostcodes ZIP code database
| Field name | Description | Field type |
|---|---|---|
| ISO | ISO 3166-1 country code | Char(2) |
| Country | Country name | Char(50) |
| Language | Language code | Char(2) |
| ID | Record identifier | Integer |
| Region 1 | Administrative division level 1 | Char(80) |
| Region 2 | Administrative division level 2 | Char(80) |
| Region 3 | Administrative division level 3 | Char(80) |
| Region 4 | Administrative division level 4 | Char(80) |
| Locality | Locality name | Char(80) |
| Postcode | ZIP / Postal code | Char(15) |
| Suburb | Locality subdivision | Char(80) |
| Latitude | Place latitude (WGS84 coordinates) | Double |
| Longitude | Place longitude (WGS84 coordinates) | Double |
| Elevation | Elevation in meters | Integer |
| ISO2 | ISO 3166-2 region code | Char(10) |
| FIPS | The Federal Information Processing Standard, publication 10-4 (FIPS 10-4) | Char(10) |
| NUTS | European statistical division code | Char(12) |
| HASC | Hierarchical administrative subdivision code | Char(12) |
| STAT | National statistics/census code | Char(20) |
| Timezone | Time zone name (Olson) | Char(30) |
| UTC | Standard time expressed as an offset with respect to UTC | Char(10) |
| DST | Daylight saving time expressed as an offset with respect to UTC | Char(10) |
| locality_type | Type of place, ‘town’ or ‘business’ | Char(20) |
| is_postal | Whether the postal code is used for regular mail | Integer |
| is_business | Whether the postal code is used for businesses | Integer |
| is_po_box | Whether the postal code is used for PO Boxes | Integer |
| post_town | Postal Town (e.g. USPS recommended city) | Char(80) |
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Frequently Asked Questions
The International ZIP Code Database covers 247 countries and territories, including hard-to-source geographies like China, Japan, Brazil, and Russia.
Every country is delivered within a unified global structure, so your team can easily add markets without changing how you handle the data.
View the full list in our coverage table.
The International ZIP Code Database is updated regularly to reflect the world’s postal and administrative changes. The update frequency varies by country.
You can choose when you update the data in your system:
- Bulk updates: Download full, updated datasets to refresh your system.
- Differential updates: Retrieve only the new, updated and deleted records to ensure integrity and traceability.
The International ZIP Code Database is curated from 1,500 authoritative sources, including national postal operators (like Swiss Post or Correos de México), official governments, statistical offices, and administrative and regulatory bodies.
All data undergoes robust data engineering and quality control processes and is standardized in a unified, global structure.
Common use cases for the International ZIP Code Database include:
- Address validation: Verify that addresses are complete, correctly formatted, and match local postal standards, in every country and every language.
- Distance calculation: Compute distances between ZIP codes to power radius searches, routing decisions, shipping tariffs, mileage and CO₂ reporting for ESG, job-to-candidate matching, and location-based ad targeting.
- Logistics and shipping: Design and optimize your distribution network, enable cross-border shipping, and ensure delivery success.
- Reporting and business intelligence: Produce compliant and accurate reports across your organization, and enhance data analysis with location intelligence.
- Map visualization: Analyze complex trends and discover actionable insights. Build engaging map-based data visualizations.
- Master Data Management: Rely on a single source of truth to keep location data accurate, consistent, and current across your systems and organization.
- Sales and Marketing: Segment customers for site selection, analytics, geofencing, campaigns, territory mapping, and ad targeting.
Yes. GeoPostcodes datasets are provided in text files (the most popular format is CSV), so you can easily import the International ZIP Code Database into any software, database, ERP, CRM, MDM, GIS, or BI system.
Customers commonly integrate it with Power BI, Tableau, Carto, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Sage, Esri, QGIS, and Informatica.
The International ZIP Code Database is delivered in the following formats: CSV, ASC, GeoJSON, and Shapefile. The most popular format is CSV.
GeoPostcodes delivers its data in text files (the most popular format is CSV) that you can easily integrate into your databases and processes. Hosting your own data gives you full control over security, compliance, and performance at a fixed cost, regardless of volume. Learn more about the benefits of working with self-hosted data here.
Choose the delivery method that fits your infrastructure best:
- Manual download: Download the full database from your secure space in the GeoPostcodes Customer Portal.
- Download API: Retrieve the files via API for automated ingestion into your pipeline.
- Cloud-to-cloud: GeoPostcodes syncs the data directly to your cloud environment (Snowflake, Azure Data Share, or AWS).
The International ZIP Code Database is updated regularly to reflect the world’s postal and administrative changes. You can choose when you update the data in your system:
- Bulk updates: Download full, updated datasets to refresh your system.
- Differential updates: Retrieve only the new, updated, and deleted records to ensure integrity and traceability.
The International ZIP Code Database covers every ZIP code across 247 countries and territories, each linked to its city, town, administrative divisions up to 4 levels deep.
Records also carry additional attributes: latitude and longitude, statistical codes (ISO, FIPS, NUTS, HASC, and STAT), and time zone. For multilingual countries, records include official names in multiple languages, supporting accurate localization and a consistent user experience.
For the full list of fields, see the data dictionary.
Yes, the International ZIP Code Database includes latitude and longitude for each ZIP code. The coordinates correspond to the ZIP code center.
Yes. Sample datasets are available for every country in the International ZIP Code Database, so your team can check coverage, schema, and quality for your target markets before you commit.
Create a free account in our Portal to browse and download samples for the countries you’re evaluating.
Contact us to discuss your project and coverage needs. We will then schedule a call to understand your use case, answer any questions, and share sample data for evaluation. Once the agreement is signed, we will activate your dataset and introduce you to your Customer Success Manager, who will guide you through onboarding and help you integrate the data.
GeoPostcodes’ annual licenses are priced per product, based on the countries you need and your use case. Our licenses include access to your data, ongoing updates, and support from a dedicated expert who guides the integration and answers your team’s questions.
Share your needs with our team, and we will prepare a proposal tailored to your project.