About the data
PostCode combines two published sources. It does not add offices, codes or locations of its own.
Sources
- Pakistan Post, National Post Code Directory. 2,422 delivery post offices with their post code, account office (the GPO or HPO that keeps their accounts), province and the code used by their attached branch offices. Taken from the copy published by pkgeography/pk-postal-codes, converted from Pakistan Post's spreadsheet.
- GeoNames postal codes for Pakistan, licensed CC BY 4.0, via its mirror. It supplies coordinates for 975 offices and 159 codes the directory does not list.
How the two are combined
- Pakistan Post is followed for codes, names, account offices and branch codes. Where GeoNames spells the same office differently, both names are shown.
- Only coordinates that GeoNames matched to the named place are used (975 offices). GeoNames' estimated coordinates are left out: many are a town or district centre, and some are tens of kilometres from the office. A matched coordinate that lies far from the other offices of its GPO area is also dropped, because it usually belongs to a same-named place elsewhere.
- Codes only GeoNames lists are placed in a GPO area when at least three quarters of the directory offices sharing their first three digits belong to that area (128 of 159). The rest are shown only on their province page.
- 2,419 of 2,422 branch office codes are the delivery office's code plus one. A branch code that belongs to one delivery office redirects to that office's page.
Known gaps
- The directory has no tehsil or district column, so offices are grouped by GPO area. A GPO area is not a district boundary, and some of its offices lie in neighbouring districts.
- Village branch offices are not named in the directory, only their shared code.
- 1,606 offices have no coordinates, so "Near me" cannot find them.
- This copy of the directory dates from 2014. Offices opened or renumbered since then may be missing. Newer Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad sectors in particular may have codes not shown here.
Disclaimer
This site is not affiliated with Pakistan Post. Codes are shown as published; check with your post office before relying on one for important mail or an official form. If you find a wrong or missing code, tell us and we will check it.
API
The data behind these pages is also available as JSON: /postcode/api/code/44000, /postcode/api/search?q=clifton and /postcode/api/nearby?lat=33.70&lng=73.05.