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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.
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]
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 Dependences are also included, without co-ordinates.
The single or pair of letters chosen for postcode areas are generally intended as a mnemonic for the places served. [1] Postcode areas, post towns and postcode districts do not follow political or local authority administrative boundaries and usually serve much larger areas than the place names with which they are associated.
The launch of a national postcode system (Eircode, Irish: éirchód [8]) in Ireland began on 28 April 2014. [9] The system incorporates the existing numbered Dublin postal districts as part of the routing key. [10] [11] Eircode made Ireland the first country in the world to have a unique postcode for each address. [12]
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.
In Northern Ireland respondents were given a list of options (including British, Irish, and Northern Irish) from which they could choose as many as they wanted. Irish national identity was numerically in a majority in two districts, Derry and Newry , where 55.03% and 52.09% respectively consider themselves as having an Irish national identity ...
A map of settlements in Northern Ireland, highlighted in red. This is a list of settlements in Northern Ireland by population, based on data published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), from the 2021 Census .