---
id: "in_postcode"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["geo", "pii", "common"]
country: ["IN"]
langs: ["en", "hi"]
quality: 100
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/in_postcode"
---

# Indian postal code (PIN code) (`in_postcode`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Postal Index Number (PIN code) in India: six digits, sometimes with a space after the third. The first digit is a postal zone: 1 to 8 for regions of India, 9 for the Army Postal Service.

- Pattern of: `postindex`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Personally identifiable information (pii), Common (common)
- Countries: India (IN)
- Languages: English (en), Hindi (hi)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[1-9]\d{2} ?\d{3}$
```

## Examples

- `110001` — New Delhi
- `400001` — Mumbai
- `560 001` — Bengaluru
- `056001` (invalid example)

## Mappings

- fta: `POSTAL_CODE.POSTAL_CODE_IN`

## Supported by tools

- `fta`

## Translations

- ru: Почтовый индекс Индии (PIN)

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Index_Number>
- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 100/100.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/in_postcode.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/IN/geo/in_postcode.yaml>