A Kosovan postal code is a 5 digit

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that is used for general locations in

Kosovo Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...

, often written with a space between the second and third digits.

Country code

The

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- ISO, has yet to assign a code to the country. The ISO

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standard 3166 has a couple of unused codes that can be used for user specific elements: “''If users need code elements to represent country names not included in this part of ISO 3166, the series of letters AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ, and ZZ, and the series AAA to AAZ, QMA to QZZ, XAA to XZZ, and ZZA to ZZZ respectively and the series of numbers 900 to 999 are available.''” The

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and many other organisations are using ‘XK‘ as a temporary country code for

till ISO officially assigns a code.

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will switch to the official ISO code as soon as it has been decided, but it is using ‘XK‘ until then. The US standards body FIPS has assigned the country code ‘KV‘ to Kosovo.

Dialing code

The dialing code for

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, and the temporary country code XK is 5 digit numeric.

Regional postal codes

References

External links

* https://postakosoves.com/en/zip-codes/ {{Europe in topic, Postal codes in

Communications in Kosovo