Canadian forward sortation area (FSA)
ID ca_fsa
DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft
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First three characters of a Canadian postal code (ca_postcode): letter, digit, letter, for example K1A. A forward sortation area is the area covered by all postal codes that start with these characters. The letter is a postal district within one province or territory, and a 0 as the digit marks a rural area. Statistics Canada and other publishers release data and boundary files by FSA when full postal codes would be too detailed.
- Categories
- Geographic identifiers
- Countries
- Canada
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- AutoType benchmark
canpost- Quality
- 100/100
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- Auto-Type
Regular expression
^[ABCEGHJ-NPRSTVXY]\d[ABCEGHJ-NPRSTV-Z]$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| K1A | Ottawa |
| T2P | Alberta (postal district T) |
| X0A | Rural area (0 as the digit) |
| D1A invalid | D is never used |
| K1A 0B1 invalid | Full postal code |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Зона сортировки почты Канады (FSA) | Первые три символа канадского почтового индекса, обозначающие район сортировки почты. |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Canada
- other: https://github.com/congy/AutoType/blob/master/data_release/canpost.txt
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ca_fsa - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/CA/geo/ca_fsa.yamlon GitHub