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The BT postcode area, also known as the Belfast postcode area, [2] covers all of Northern Ireland and was the last part of the United Kingdom to be coded, between 1970 and 1974. [ citation needed ] This area is a group of 82 postcode districts in Northern Ireland, within 44 post towns and around 47,227 live postcodes.
For the purposes of directing mail, the United Kingdom (although the populations listed just show figures for England, Wales and Northern Ireland), is divided by Royal Mail into postcode areas. The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode . [ 1 ]
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English: Labelled map of Royal Mail postcode districts of the BT postcode area. Indicative postcode district labels shown in red, post town labels shown in grey. Equirectangular projection with latitude stretching 170%, WGS84 datum. Geographic limits: Main 1:709,000 map: West: 8.253W; East: 5.363W; North: 55.349N; South: 53.989N
Both the ONSPD and NSPL contain Northern Ireland postcodes, with centroid coordinates in the OSI grid as opposed to the OSGB grid, although Northern Ireland postcodes are subject to a more restrictive licence permitting internal business use only. [80] Postcodes for the Crown Dependencies are also included, without co-ordinates.
Belfast City [c] Belfast: County Antrim County Down: 291,386 126,925 78.57 3,708.53 'Band A - Belfast' Derry Urban Area [d] Derry and Strabane: County Londonderry: 94,376: 2: Derry City: Derry and Strabane: County Londonderry: 84,884 35,554 33.95 2,500.49 'Band B - Derry City' 3: Craigavon Urban Area including Aghacommon [e] Armagh, Banbridge ...
Although Ireland's routing key areas take a similar format to postcode areas in the United Kingdom (including Northern Ireland), they are not intended as a mnemonic for a county or city name, except for those used in the historic Dublin postal districts. Several towns and townlands can share the same routing key. [3]
Map of the Rural and Urban Districts of Northern Ireland in 1967. The urban and rural districts of Northern Ireland were created in 1899 when the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 came into effect. They were based on the system of district councils introduced in England and Wales four years earlier.