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List Of Postal Codes In Spain

Postal codes were introduced and standardized in Spain in 1976, when Correos (the national postal service of Spain) introduced automated mail sorting. The first two digits (ranging 01–52) of the postal code correspond to one of the fifty provinces of Spain (as listed in general alphabetical order, with some exceptions), plus the two autonomous cities on the African coast.

Full listing:

01 Álava	14 Córdoba	27 Lugo	40 Segovia
02 Albacete	15 A Coruña	28 Madrid	41 Seville
03 Alicante	16 Cuenca	29 Málaga	42 Soria
04 Almería	17 Girona	30 Murcia	43 Tarragona
05 Ávila	18 Granada	31 Navarre	44 Teruel
06 Badajoz	19 Guadalajara	32 Ourense	45 Toledo
07 Balearic Islands	20 Guipúzcoa	33 Asturias (formerly Oviedo)	46 Valencia
08 Barcelona	21 Huelva	34 Palencia	47 Valladolid
09 Burgos	22 Huesca	35 Las Palmas	48 Vizcaya
10 Cáceres	23 Jaén	36 Pontevedra	49 Zamora
11 Cádiz	24 León	37 Salamanca	50 Zaragoza
12 Castellón	25 Lleida	38 Santa Cruz de Tenerife	51 Ceuta
13 Ciudad Real	26 La Rioja (formerly Logroño)	39 Cantabria (formerly Santander)	52 Melilla

Large cities such as Madrid and Barcelona, were divided into postal districts (zonas in Spanish) similar to the arrondissement system in Paris. These former postal districts were incorporated into the five-digit postal code:

	Former	Current
Plaza de España, 18	Madrid 8	28008 Madrid
Travessera de Gracia, 68 –70, 1º.	Barcelona 6	08006 Barcelona

Some codes are reserved for special use at the province capital:

070 for official use by Correos.
071 to address state agencies at the given province.
080 for P.O. boxes and mail lists.

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