The Portuguese

postal code A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or numerical digit, digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, inclu ...

(''código postal'') is formed by four digits, a hyphen, then three digits, followed by a postal location of up to 25 characters in capitals. Avenida Marconi 4C 1000-205 Lisboa Postal codes are given at the building block level and also to designated addresses with high volumes of mail. The first digit designates one of nine postal regions; the following two digits designate postal distribution centers; the fourth digit is 0 if it belongs to a capital of municipality, 5 if not, or any other digit if it is a designated address; the last three digits sort building blocks and designated addresses. The more important the city, the more rounded is the number formed by the first four digits.

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Prior to 1976, only

Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...

had used a system, of six zones (Lisboa 1 to Lisboa 6). Avenida Padre Manuel da Nobrega 14, 2º Esq. Lisboa 1 In 1976, a national postal code system was introduced, with a four-digit structure, and designated addresses added "CODEX" (abbreviation of ''código extraordinário'') to the postal location: Instituto de Hidráulicas e Recursos Hídricos Rua dos Bragas 4099 Porto CODEX''History and Heritage of Coastal Engineering''
Nicholas C. Kraus, ASCE Publications, 1996, page 413

Postal regions

Postal regions (first digit of postal code): #(red) - City of Lisbon #(green) - Estremadura e Ribatejo:

Lisbon metropolitan area The Lisbon Metropolitan Area (; abbreviated as AML) is a metropolitan areas in Portugal, metropolitan area in Portugal centered on Lisbon, the capital and largest city of the country. The metropolitan area, covering 17 List of cities in Portuga ...

(except City of Lisbon), Santarém District and parts of

Leiria District The District of Leiria ( ) is a district located between the Oeste e Vale do Tejo and Centro regions of Portugal, and divided between the traditional provinces of Beira Litoral and Estremadura. It borders on the north with district of Coimbra, ...

#(purple) - Beira Litoral:

Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ), officially the City of Coimbra (), is a city and a concelho, municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2021 census was 140,796, in an area of . The fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Po ...

and Aveiro districts and part of Leira and

Viseu Viseu () is a city and municipality in the Centro Region of Portugal and the capital of the Viseu District, district of the same name, with a population of 100,105 inhabitants in the entire municipality, and center of the Viseu Dão Lafões Interm ...

districts #(cream) - Minho e Douro Litoral: Viana do Castelo,

Braga District The district of Braga ( ) is a district in the northwest of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Braga, and it is bordered by the district of Viana do Castelo in the north, Vila Real in the east, Galicia (a Spanish autonomous commu ...

and

Porto District The Districts of Portugal, District of Porto ( ) is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto, the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the Aveiro (district), Aveiro and Viseu (distric ...

and part of Viseu and Vila Real Districts #(pink) - Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro: Bragança District, most of

Vila Real District The District of Vila Real ( ) is a district of northern Portugal. With an area of , the district is located east of the port city of Porto and north of the Douro, Douro River. Vila Real has always belonged to the historical province of Trás- ...

and northern parts of Viseu District and Guarda District #(grey) - Beira Interior: Castelo Branco District and Guarda District and northern tip of Portalegre District #(blue) - Alentejo: Beja District and Évora District and parts of Portalegre District and Setúbal District #(yellow) - Algarve: Faro District #(brown) - Madeira Islands and Azores Note that, although the regions' names are connected to the (extinct)

provinces of Portugal The term "provinces" () has been used throughout history to identify regions of continental Portugal. Current legal subdivisions of Portugal do not coincide with the provinces, but several provinces, in their 19th- and 20th-century versions, s ...

of 1936, their limits (with the exception of Algarve) are not exactly the same. People can also search for postal codes at th
CTT Correios
website.

References

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Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

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