Postal Reference data

TL Post has access to a postal reference database with street and city directories from 240 countries. The reference data can be used both in the home country and internationally. Due to the language-independent data analysis and a special transliteration technology, the verification results for foreign addresses are largely of the same high quality as when verifying German addresses. When validating foreign addresses, country-specific features are also taken into account (e.g. house number before street in France).

If place and street names change in the reference data, TL Post recognizes outdated designations in the input data and corrects them. An address database maintained with TL Post is therefore always up to date in postal terms.

We provide you with the postal reference data for regular matching with TL Post according to your geographical requirements. Depending on the composition of your database, you can select the reference data of individual countries or entire continents.

Western Europe

Western Europe	Certification	Verification Level	Charset	Accumulation
Austria	–	SubBuilding	Unicode
Belgium	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European	NIS Code
Denmark (including Faroe Islands and Greenland)	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Finland (including Åland Islands)	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
France (including French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Monaco, New Caledonia, Réunion, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna)	La Poste	House Number	Latin 1 – West European	Insee Code
Germany	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European	various
Iceland	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Irland	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Italy (including Holy See and San Marino)	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Luxemburg	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Malta	–	SubBuilding	Latin 1 – West European
Netherlands	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Norway (including Bouvet Island and Svalbard and Jan Mayen)	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Portugal	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Spain (including Andorra)	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Sweden	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Switzerland (including Liechtenstein)	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European	Postal Code Ex
United Kingdom (including Anguilla, British Indian Ocean Territory, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St Helena, St Lucia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands and British Virgin Islands)	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European	various

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe	Certification	Verification Level	Charset	Accumulation
Bosnia and Herzegovina	–	City	Latin 1 – West European
Bulgaria	–	Street	Latin 1 – West European
Cyprus	–	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Czech republic	–	House Number	Unicode
Estonia	–	Street	Latin 1 – West European
Greece	–	House Number	Unicode
Hungary	–	House Number	Unicode
Latvia	–	Street	Latin 1 – West European
Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic	–	City	Latin 1 – West European
Poland	–	House Number	Unicode	various
Romaina	–	House Number	Unicode
Russian Federation	–	House Number	Unicode	FIAS ID
Slovakia	–	Street	Latin 1 – West European
Slovenia	–	Street	Latin 1 – West European
Package of other Eastern European countries (including Albania, Belarus, Croatia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine)	–	City	Latin 1 – West European

West Asia

(einschließlich Afghanistan, Armenien, Aserbaidschan, Bhutan, Georgien, Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Malediven, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tadschikistan, Turkmenistan und Usbekistan)

West Asia	Certification	Verification Level	Charset
Indien	–	Building	Latin 1 – West European
Pakistan	–	Ort	Latin 1 – West European
Türkei	–	Straße	Latin 1 – West European
Paket weiterer westasiatischer Länder (einschließlich Afghanistan, Armenien, Aserbaidschan, Bhutan, Georgien, Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Malediven, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tadschikistan, Turkmenistan und Usbekistan)

East Asia

East Asia	Certification	Verification Level	Charset
China	–	House Number	Unicode
Hongkong	–	SubBuilding	Unicode
Japan	–	Street	Unicode
Korea		House Number	Unicode
Singapore	–	Building	Latin 1 – West European
Thailand	–	City	Unicode
Package of other East Asian countries (including Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Macao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Timor-Leste and Vietnam)	–	City	Unicode

North America

North America	Certification	Verification Level	Charset	Accumulation
Kanada	Canada Post	SubBuilding	Latin 1 – West European
United States (including American-Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, American Oceania, and US Virgin Islands)	USPS	SubBuilding	Latin 1 – West European	FIPS Code

Central America

Central America	Certification	Verification Level	Charset	Accumulation
Mexiko	–	House number	Latin 1 – West European
Package of other Central American countries (including Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Caribbean, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Maarten and Trinidad and Tobago)	–	City	Latin 1 – West European

South America

South America	Certification	Verification Level	Charset
Argentina	–	House number	Latin 1 – West European
Brazil	–	House number	Latin 1 – West European
Chile	–	House number	Latin 1 – West European
Package of other South American countries (including Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela)	–	City	Latin 1 – West European

Middle East

Middle East	Certification	Verification Level	Charset	Accumulation
Package of other Middle East countries (including Bahrain, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen)	–	City	Latin 1 – West European

Oceania

Oceania	Certification	Verification Level	Charset
Australia (including Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Heard and McDonald Islands and Norfolk Island)	Australia Post	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
New Zealand (including Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau)	New Zealand Post	House Number	Latin 1 – West European
Package of other oceanic countries (including Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu)	–	City	Unicode

Africa

Africa	Certification	Verification Level	Charset
Algeria	–	City	Latin 1 – West European
Egypt	–	City	Latin 1 – West European
Morocco	–	City	Latin 1 – West European
South Africa	–	Street	Latin 1 – West European
Tunisia	–	City	Latin 1 – West European
Package of other African countries (including Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia and Zimbabwe)	–	City	Latin 1 – West European