House numbering is the system of giving a unique number to each building in a street or area, with the intention of making it easier to locate a particular building. The house number is often part of a postal address. Note that the term "house number" refers to the number on the building even if the building is not a house but is a commercial structure or even a vacant lot with a mailbox.
House numbering schemes vary by place, and in many cases even within cities. In some areas of the world, including many remote areas, houses are not numbered at all, instead simply being named.
Read more about House Numbering: Europe, United Kingdom, Russia and Former USSR Countries, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, United States and Canada, Latin America, Hong Kong
Famous quotes containing the words house and/or numbering:
“[My father] was a lazy man. It was the days of independent incomes, and if you had an independent income you didn’t work. You weren’t expected to. I strongly suspect that my father would not have been particularly good at working anyway. He left our house in Torquay every morning and went to his club. He returned, in a cab, for lunch, and in the afternoon went back to the club, played whist all afternoon, and returned to the house in time to dress for dinner.”
—Agatha Christie (1891–1976)
“The task he undertakes
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)