---
id: "uy_postcode"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["geo", "pii", "common"]
country: ["UY"]
langs: ["es"]
quality: 93
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/uy_postcode"
---

# Uruguayan postal code (`uy_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 (código postal) in Uruguay: five digits. Montevideo codes start with 11 or 12.

- Pattern of: `postindex`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Personally identifiable information (pii), Common (common)
- Countries: Uruguay (UY)
- Languages: Spanish (es)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{5}$
```

## Examples

- `11000` — Montevideo
- `11100` — Montevideo
- `1100` (invalid example)

## Mappings

- fta: `POSTAL_CODE.POSTAL_CODE_UY`

## Supported by tools

- `fta`

## Translations

- ru: Почтовый индекс Уругвая

## Sources

- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 93/100. Missing: authoritative source link.

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