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United Kingdom postal codes, places and regions
Browse postal-code records and administrative regions, with optional GeoNames Gazetteer enrichment.
Postal data availableGazetteer places available
- Place records
- 27,450
- Postal codes
- 3,002
- Named places
- 23,575
- Mapped records
- 27,450
- Shared codes
- 2,227
Snapshot-derived insight
How dense is this postal directory?
In the active ZipCodeGlobe postal snapshot, United Kingdom contains 27,450 active place records across 3,002 distinct postal codes — about 9.14 place records per represented code. This describes dataset representation, not population or legal postal boundaries.
GeoNames country reference
Geographic context for United Kingdom
Londoncapital
GBPcurrency
44calling prefix
66,488,991countryInfo population field
GeoNames countryInfo postal format: @# #@@|@## #@@|@@# #@@|@@## #@@|@#@ #@@|@@#@ #@@|GIR0AA. This is supporting reference metadata, not a postal-code record set.
Languages: en-GB,cy-GB,gd · Neighbour codes: IE
GeoNames general Gazetteer
Major populated places
These are geographic place records, not postal-code records.
LondonEngland · population field 8,961,989BirminghamEngland · population field 1,157,603GlasgowScotland · population field 626,410ManchesterEngland · population field 568,996SheffieldEngland · population field 556,500LeedsEngland · population field 536,280EdinburghScotland · population field 514,990LiverpoolEngland · population field 496,770BristolEngland · population field 479,024CardiffWales · population field 372,089LeicesterEngland · population field 368,600BradfordEngland · population field 366,187
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.