---
id: "mt_postcode"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["geo", "pii", "common"]
country: ["MT"]
langs: ["mt", "en"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/mt_postcode"
---

# Malta postal code (`mt_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 code in Malta: three letters and four digits, optionally separated by a space; codes in the format used before 2007 have two digits.

- Pattern of: `postindex`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Personally identifiable information (pii), Common (common)
- Countries: Malta (MT)
- Languages: Maltese (mt), English (en)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{3} ?\d{2,4}$
```

## Examples

- `NXR 01`
- `ZTN 05`
- `GPO 01`
- `BZN 1130`
- `SPB 6031`
- `VCT 1753`
- `NXR 0` (invalid example) — too short

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Malta>
- other: <https://chromium-i18n.appspot.com/ssl-address/data/MT>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

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