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What is one good, reliable source for world-wide postal codes?

I've Googled my brains out trying to find postal codes for foreign cities. I'd love a link to ONE site where there is a complete list (it would be even more awesome if it were searchable) of postal codes. I'm trying to find one in Malaysia right now, and it's an arduous task. :-/

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  • 1 decade ago
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    There isn't a site anywhere for that information. It's commercially valuable information and takes a lot of time and man power to collate and to keep up to date; and some countries protect their postal code lists with expensive licenses which don't allow the data to be listed online. Also, bear in mind that there are tens of millions of postal codes in use throughout the world, so a single list or database source would be a huge undertaking.

    My own site provides links to postal code sites that you can use to get information for countries which provide the data online: http://www.grcdi.nl/links.htm

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