Dutch postal code
ID nl_postcode
DatatypePersonal data (PII)categorical
Postcode in the Netherlands: four digits, the first not 0, a space and two capital letters, from 1000 AA upwards. The letter pairs SA, SD and SS are not used because of their association with Nazi Germany. The letters F, I, O, Q, U and Y were left out at first but are now used. The digits 0000-0999 are kept for the Caribbean Netherlands and are not in use. A full postcode covers a part of a street, so with a house number it identifies an address.
- Parent datatype
- Postal code/index
postindex - Categories
- Geographic identifiers
- Countries
- Netherlands
- Languages
- Dutch
- W3C DPV
pd:PostalCode- FTA
POSTAL_CODE.POSTAL_CODE_NL- Schema.org
postalCode- python-stdnum
stdnum.nl.postcode- Quality
- 100/100
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- DataPrep, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), python-stdnum
Regular expression
^[1-9]\d{3} ?(?!SA|SD|SS)[A-Z]{2}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 2601 DC | python-stdnum reference value |
| 3443 BX | Synthetic postcode |
| 8205WZ | Synthetic postcode written without the space |
| 2611 SS invalid | SS is not used (python-stdnum reference value) |
| 26112 ET invalid | Five digits (python-stdnum reference value) |
| 0123 AB invalid | The first digit is 0 |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Postcode | Vier cijfers (de eerste geen 0), een spatie en twee hoofdletters; de combinaties SA, SD en SS worden niet gebruikt. |
| Russian | Почтовый индекс Нидерландов | Четыре цифры (первая не 0), пробел и две заглавные буквы; сочетания SA, SD и SS не используются. |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_the_Netherlands
- wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_Nederland
- other: https://arthurdejong.org/python-stdnum/doc/2.2/stdnum.nl.postcode.html
- other: https://docs.dataprep.ai/user_guide/clean/clean_nl_postcode.html
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/nl_postcode - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/NL/geo/nl_postcode.yamlon GitHub