List of the Zip Codes in Switzerland

This is a very detailed database with data about the postal codes in Switzerland. The dataset is accessible via API and developers can perform queries and consume the data using the API playground.

Switzerland Postal Codes Dataset

This dataset provide the following information for each zip code of Switzerland:

• Zip Code Number
• Place Name
• Admin Name
• Admin Code
• Location (Latitude / Longitude) in a Geopoint format

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Data Source

The data was extracted from Geonames.org database and Wikipedia.

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Swiss Postal Codes

There were no Postal Codes from Switzerland's history, but on the 26th of June 1964, Postal Codes were introduced in Switzerland. Here we will discuss the ideology of Switzerland.

What is the history of Swiss Postal Codes?

The first country to introduce Postal Codes was Germany. Germany introduced Postal Codes in 1941 to make things easier. After Germany, the United States was the second to introduce Postal Codes in the year 1963. Following these two, Switzerland also introduced Postal Codes in 1964.

What status is provided to the locations with a Postal Code?

In Switzerland, if a place is assigned a 4-digit Postal Code, it gets a locality status. However, it will not become an independent political municipality. The site will stay as an official locality. Some states have some areas under them. There are communes like Worblanfen and Ziegelbrücke. These have some smaller areas under their name as a commune, so these smaller areas don't get a Postal Code to avoid ambiguity.

What privilege is given to the local post offices?

One of the most important things for better understanding is the Postal Code for the large cities' local post offices. Due to this reason, the 6-digit postCodes are assigned to these individual local postboxes inside the cities.

What is the significance of swiss Postal Codes?

The Postal Code system of Swiss includes Liechtenstein, which is known as the German enclave of the famous Büsingen am Hochrhein. Before January of 2020, Cagmione also had the Swiss postCode. It helped them with the entry into the Union Custom Areas of Europe.

What is the terminology for assigning Postal Codes in Switzerland?

The terminology of assigning Postal Codes in Switzerland is geographical. Here the Codes are assigned geographically from west to east. The Postal Codes are not given according to any political divisions like the districts. However, the Postal Codes are given following routing allocations like the railway and bus routes. One fantastic thing here is that the Postal Codes are assigned, so that big cities' Postal Codes end with 00. However, the city is not considered to be a big city where there is no big center.

The Postal division of Postal Codes in Switzerland

The areas in Switzerland are divided into nine total parts known as Postal districts. They are assigned numbers from the west to east, where each district is again divided into Postal areas. There is one restriction about having subdivided areas. This restriction is that there could be no more than 100 units in one Postal area.

Postal Codes in Switzerland:

The Postal Codes in Switzerland areas are mentioned below.

• Postal Code example: 3463 for Zollbruck.
• Here this Postal Code is divided into the following parts.
• 3 is the district, which is Bern.
• 34 is for the area, which is Burgdorf.
• 343 is for the route which is from Burgdorf to Langnau.
• 3463 is for the post office number of Zollbruck. In this division, things have changed a lot. It is because the modern-day methods of mailing have changed a lot. It is the reason why the third digit has no meaning for modern-day techniques. If you look for the Postal Codes of Liechtenstein, they range from 9480 to 9499.

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