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Australia postal codes, places and regions
Browse postal-code records and administrative regions, with optional GeoNames Gazetteer enrichment.
Postal data availableGazetteer places available
- Place records
- 18,514
- Postal codes
- 3,171
- Named places
- 16,207
- Mapped records
- 18,514
- Shared codes
- 2,147
Snapshot-derived insight
How dense is this postal directory?
In the active ZipCodeGlobe postal snapshot, Australia contains 18,514 active place records across 3,171 distinct postal codes — about 5.84 place records per represented code. This describes dataset representation, not population or legal postal boundaries.
GeoNames country reference
Geographic context for Australia
Canberracapital
AUDcurrency
61calling prefix
24,992,369countryInfo population field
GeoNames countryInfo postal format: ####. This is supporting reference metadata, not a postal-code record set.
Languages: en-AU
GeoNames general Gazetteer
Major populated places
These are geographic place records, not postal-code records.
SydneyNew South Wales · population field 5,638,830MelbourneVictoria · population field 5,435,590BrisbaneQueensland · population field 2,780,063PerthWestern Australia · population field 2,384,371AdelaideSouth Australia · population field 1,469,163Gold CoastQueensland · population field 640,778NewcastleNew South Wales · population field 508,437Sunshine CoastQueensland · population field 398,840CanberraAustralian Capital Territory · population field 367,752Central CoastNew South Wales · population field 346,596Logan CityQueensland · population field 345,098GeelongVictoria · population field 282,809
Postal regions
Australian Capital Territory31 codes · 168 recordsNew South Wales922 codes · 5,592 recordsNorthern Territory51 codes · 410 recordsQueensland462 codes · 3,962 recordsSouth Australia350 codes · 2,093 recordsTasmania120 codes · 812 recordsVictoria749 codes · 3,537 recordsWestern Australia503 codes · 1,940 records
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Source: GeoNames postal-code snapshot checked 2026-08-18. Postal data © GeoNames.org, CC BY 4.0. Accuracy codes belong to the source and are not a ZipCodeGlobe verification claim.