21 Fascinating Address Facts

21 FASCINATING ADDRESS FACTS 8. Netherlands In the Netherlands you can append your An address is made up of only two lines. The top house number on to the end of the line contains the street name, followed by the postal code to give a unique identifier of building number. The bottom line contains the the address, for example 1931BJ23. postal code and the place name. 5. Norway 1. Belgium All postcodes in Helsinki, the 9. Croatia capital of Finland, start with "00" The smallest town in the world is Hum, Belgium addresses can be written in Dutch, French or German. Belgians are 3. Finland which is in Istria. It has a population of very language sensitive - if an individual less than 25 people. gets a letter addressed in German and they speak French they are not obliged to adhere to it – even if it's a court order! 10. Bosnia First postcodes were Many businesses have two postal codes. One for the introduced in Norwich in 1959. postbox address, the other for their street address. Has one of the longest street names in 4. UK the world: Aleja Alije Izetbegovića Prvig Some companies that receive a significant amount of mail may even have a third postal code. Predsjednika Predsjedništva Republika Bosna i Hercegovina. 2. Wales 6. Germany Wales has one of the longest town names in the world: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndro bwllllantysiliogogogoch. 7. France Large organisations in France have their own unique postal code; you have to use that code followed by the word CEDEX. Traditionally assigns addresses chronologically instead of geographically; buildings are numbered according to when they were built, not 11. Canada Postal codes in Canada do not include the letters D, F, I, O, Q, or U, as the OCR equipment used in automated sorting could easily confuse them with other letters and digits. Pollock's Path, a street where they're located on a street. address on The Peak, Hong Kong, is the most expensive 18. Korea address in the world. 12. USA 20. Japan USA's zip+4 zipcode is the 17. Hong Kong longest postcode format being up to 10 characters long - Japan has very few street names - just names for shared with Iran which also 16. India building blocks which are has codes of 10 digits. numbered in the order in PIN code (Postal Index 19. Thailand which they were built. Number) is the standard term for a postcode in India. The official name for Bangkok is: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara 15. Brazil Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani When writing addresses in Brazil, the building Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman 14. Jamaica number follows the Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya name of the street. Witsanukam Prasit. One of the only former British colonies to not have postcodes. 13. Costa Rica 21. New Zealand Almost a quarter of the Addresses may also be to Post office mail in Costa Rica is boxes, Private Bags or Rural Deliveries. A recipient may have more returned undeliverable. than one postal code according to the address type used (street, bag or box). Award-winning providers of International address look up services for ecommerce Postcode Anywhere checkouts, web forms and CRMS www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/world