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These abbreviations are not the source of letters in Canadian postal codes, which are assigned by Canada Post on a different basis than these abbreviations. While postal codes are also used for sorting, they allow extensive regional sorting. In addition, several provinces have postal codes that begin with different letters.
Currently for Canada, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 10 provinces and 3 territories. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is CA, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Canada. The second part is two letters, which is the postal abbreviation for the province or territory.
0–9. Area codes 204, 431, and 584; Area code 250; Area codes 306, 639, and 474; Area codes 418, 581, and 367; Area code 403; Area codes 416, 647, and 437
A Canadian postal code (French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [1] Like British, Irish, Dutch, and Argentinian postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters.
No numbering plan areas have been split in Canada since 1999. Area codes 807 and 867 are the only remaining Canadian area codes that are not part of an overlay. Calls within each of these numbering plan areas may be initiated by seven-digit dialing.
this was the first part of North America to have its code changed three times: from 213 to 714 1951: to 619 in 1982, and to 760 in 1997; was to have originally split off the portion of 760 serving San Diego County to a new 442 area code in late 2008/early 2009; that plan was cancelled; 2009: overlaid by 442; 761
The letters CP or C.P. are often written in front of the postcode. This is not a country code, but simply an abbreviation for "code postal". Serbia: 1 January 2005 RS: NNNNN Poštanski adresni kod (PAK) Seychelles: SC: no codes Sierra Leone: SL: no codes Sint Maarten: SX: no codes Singapore: 6 March 1950 SG: NN Singapore: 1 July 1979 SG: NNNN ...
The territories (the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon) account for over a third of Canada's area but are only home to 0.3% of its population, which skews the national population density value. [19] Canada's population grew by 5.0% between the 2006 and 2011 censuses.