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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.
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. Here is for example the postal code of a small village, Lépaud in Creuse: 16 grande rue 23170 Lépaud
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
Overseas Departments and Territories
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
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