postal code

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postal code

Summary

postal code ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (736 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • postal code's image is recorded as Correios CEP 22011-080 - Codigo de Barras - PU1JFC.jpg[2].
  • postal code's GND ID is recorded as 4316292-7[3].
  • postal code's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh99004086[4].
  • postal code's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119596508[5].
  • postal code's subclass of is recorded as administrative territorial entity identifier[6].
  • postal code's subclass of is recorded as nominal number[7].
  • postal code's part of is recorded as address[8].
  • postal code's Commons category is recorded as Postal codes[9].
  • postal code's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 1883[10].
  • postal code's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dll7[11].
  • postal code's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph124483[12].
  • postal code's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Postal codes[13].
  • postal code's Commons gallery is recorded as Postal codes[14].
  • postal code's described at URL is recorded as https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-placetypes#postalcode[15].
  • postal code's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 383.1455[16].
  • postal code's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/postal-code[17].
  • postal code's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/postal-code[18].
  • postal code's BBC Things ID is recorded as 7060762a-3df8-483f-bb68-dfba23036644[19].
  • postal code's main Wikidata property is recorded as P281[20].
  • postal code's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C25621[21].
  • postal code's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 6210[22].
  • postal code's YSO ID is recorded as 28082[23].
  • postal code's Quora topic ID is recorded as Postal-Codes[24].
  • postal code's Fandom wiki ID is recorded as zipcodes[25].
  • postal code's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i69881[26].

Why It Matters

postal code ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (736 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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