German postal code (Postleitzahl)
ID de_postcode
Pattern of postindexPersonal data (PII)categorical
Five-digit postal code (Postleitzahl, PLZ) used in Germany since 1 July 1993, in the range 01001 to 99998. The first digit is the postal zone and the first two digits are the postal region.
- Pattern of
- Postal code/index
postindex - Categories
- Geographic identifiers, Personally identifiable information, Common
- Countries
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- FTA
POSTAL_CODE.POSTAL_CODE_DE- Presidio
DE_PLZ- Quality
- 100/100
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Microsoft Presidio, Tableau, Talend (Qlik Talend Data Preparation, Data Catalog and Data Inventory)
Regular expression
^(?:0[1-9]|[1-9]\d)\d{3}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 10117 | Berlin |
| 80331 | München |
| 01067 | Dresden |
| 1011 invalid | four digits, the system used before 1993 |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| German | Postleitzahl | |
| Russian | Почтовый индекс Германии |
Sources
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/de_postcode - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/DE/geo/de_postcode.yamlon GitHub