Colombo City Limits
Colombo is divided into 15 numbered areas for the purposes of postal services. Within these areas are the suburbs with their corresponding post office.
| Postal number | Zone |
| Colombo 1 | Fort |
| Colombo 2 | Slave Island and Union Place |
| Colombo 3 | Kollupitiya |
| Colombo 4 | Bambalapitiya |
| Colombo 5 | Havelock Town and Kirilapone |
| Colombo 6 | Wellawatte and Pamankada |
| Colombo 7 | Cinnamon Gardens |
| Colombo 8 | Borella and Narahenpita |
| Colombo 9 | Dematagoda |
| Colombo 10 | Maradana and Panchikawatte |
| Colombo 11 | Pettah |
| Colombo 12 | Hultsdorf |
| Colombo 13 | Kotahena and Bloemendhal |
| Colombo 14 | Grandpass |
| Colombo 15 | Mutwal, Modera, Mattakkuliya, Madampitiya |
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