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Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting .
Format
The postal code (in French, code postal) consists of five digits, the first two digits identifying the département, or outside Europe, in the French Overseas Departments and Territories. The digits 00 are used for Military addresses.
The next two numbers indicate the canton. All the cities or towns inside the same canton have the same postcode. A regular postcode always ends with a 0 (with the notable exception of Paris, Lyon and Marseille - see below). A postcode that wouldn't end with a 0 indicates a special code, known as CEDEX (see below).
In Paris, the last two digits of the postal code indicate the arrondissement. Prior to 1972, an address in the eighth arrondissement in Paris, would be written as:
8, Rue Chambiges
Paris 8e
This number was incorporated into the postal code as:
8, Rue Chambiges
75008 Paris
An exception to this rule is the sixteenth arrondissement, which has two postal codes, 75016 (south) and 75116 (north).
Outside of Paris, the cities of Lyon and Marseille are also divided into arrondissements, which are part of the postal code:
11 rue Duhamel
69002 Lyon
2 avenue du Maréchal Foch
13004 Marseille
In each département, the préfecture (main city) has a postal code ending with 000, for example Ajaccio in Corsica:
15 avenue du Général Leclerc
20000 Ajaccio
The bigger the city, the simpler the postal code. The sous-préfectures are recognized by using a XXX00 postcode. Here is for example the postal code of a small village, Lépaud in Creuse:
16 grande rue
23170 Lépaud
And the postal code of Mortagne-au-Perche, sous-préfecture of the Département de l'Orne:
4 rue des Quinze Fusillés
61400 Mortagne-au-Perche
CEDEX
There is also a system known as CEDEX, Courrier d'Entreprise à Distribution EXceptionnelle, designed for recipients of large volumes of mail. A postal code is allocated to each large organisation or to post office box holders, ending in three unique digits, for example:
2 place Jussieu
75251 Paris Cedex 05
The '05' is for the 5th arrondissement. Ordinary deliveries would be addressed to:
2 place Jussieu
75005 Paris
It is also acceptable to include a boîte postale (post office box) number as well as the street address in CEDEX addresses.
Monaco
The French postal code system is also used in Monaco, where the postal code is prefixed with 'MC', not with 'F' for France:
12 avenue de la Costa
MC-98000 Monaco
MONACO
23, Avenue Prince Héréditaire Albert
MC-98025 Monaco Cedex
MONACO
01000-09999
01 Ain
02 Aisne
03 Allier
04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
05 Hautes-Alpes
06 Alpes-Maritimes
07 Ardèche
08 Ardennes
09 Ariège
10000-19999
10 Aube
11 Aude
12 Aveyron
13 Bouches-du-Rhône
14 Calvados
15 Cantal
16 Charente
17 Charente-Maritime
18 Cher
19 Corrèze
20000-29999
20 Corse-du-Sud, Haute-Corse
21 Côte-d'Or
22 Côtes-d'Armor
23 Creuse
24 Dordogne
25 Doubs
26 Drôme
27 Eure
28 Eure-et-Loir
29 Finistère
30000-39999
30 Gard
31 Haute-Garonne
32 Gers
33 Gironde
34 Hérault
35 Ille-et-Vilaine
36 Indre
37 Indre-et-Loire
38 Isère
39 Jura
40000-49999
40 Landes
41 Loir-et-Cher
42 Loire
43 Haute-Loire
44 Loire-Atlantique
45 Loiret
46 Lot
47 Lot-et-Garonne
48 Lozère
49 Maine-et-Loire
50000-59999
50 Manche
51 Marne
52 Haute-Marne
53 Mayenne
54 Meurthe-et-Moselle
55 Meuse
56 Morbihan
57 Moselle
58 Nièvre
59 Nord
60000-69999
60 Oise
61 Orne
62 Pas-de-Calais
63 Puy-de-Dôme
64 Pyrénées-Atlantiques
65 Hautes-Pyrénées
66 Pyrénées-Orientales
67 Bas-Rhin
68 Haut-Rhin
69 Rhône
70000-79999
70 Haute-Saône
71 Saône-et-Loire
72 Sarthe
73 Savoie
74 Haute-Savoie
75 Paris
76 Seine-Maritime
77 Seine-et-Marne
78 Yvelines
79 Deux-Sèvres
80000-89999
80 Somme
81 Tarn
82 Tarn-et-Garonne
83 Var
84 Vaucluse
85 Vendée
86 Vienne
87 Haute-Vienne
88 Vosges
89 Yonne
90000-95999
90 Territoire-de-Belfort
91 Essonne
92 Hauts-de-Seine
93 Seine-Saint-Denis
94 Val-de-Marne
95 Val-d'Oise
Départements d'outre mer (DOM) (Overseas departments)
971 Guadeloupe
972 Martinique
973 French Guiana
974 Réunion
Collectivités territoriales (TOM) (Territorial Collectivities):
975 Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
976 Mayotte
Pays et Territoires d'outre mer (PTOM) (Overseas Countries and Territories)
986 Wallis and Futuna
987 French Polynesia
988 New Caledonia
See also
Lists of postal codes
External links
Last updated: 05-07-2005 10:33:21
