Global Source Book
Update 04v2 (November 2004)
This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data
Management has been released (5th November 2004) as an Adobe Acrobat
file. The following chapters and data have been updated:
Acknowledgements: updated
World postal code formats: format for Armenia, Vietnam, Lithuania, Iran and Mozambique updated; format added for British Antarctic Territory; format added for British Indian Ocean Territory, Pitcairn Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Falkland Islands; format added for Andorra, Somalia; additional format added for Dominican Republic; additional format added for St Helena; format
removed for Georgia.
World postbox indicators: entry added for Andorra, Angola, Aruba, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Cape Verde Islands, Cibam Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Polynesia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Maldives, Morocco, Nepal, Seychelles, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Turks & Caicos Islands ; entries modified for Botswana, Brazil, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Ghana. Hong Kong, India, Ivory Coast, Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Tonga, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
World address formats: format corrected for St. Helena & El Salvador; format updated for Falkland Islands; format updated for Andorra; format added for Iraq and Somalia.
Postal country codes: modification for Finland.
Afghanistan: ISO 4217 currency code corrected;
American Samoa: telephone number information updated.
Andorra: new postal code section added; address format samples updated; postal codes per parish added; postbox section added.
Angola: postbox section added.
Armenia: address format section updated, new postal code format described.
Argentina: province/postal code map added
Aruba: postbox section added.
Azerbaijan: local name for postal codes added.
Bahamas: additional company types added.
Brazil: postbox section corrected.
British Indian Ocean territory: new postal code information added.
Bulgaria: thoroughfare types section added; ISO 4217 currency code corrected.
Cape Verde: postal codes per island table added; telephone number information provided; postbox section added.
China: additional address format and thoroughfare type information added.
Colombia: postbox section corrected.
Costa Rica: postbox section modified.
Croatia: thoroughfare types section added.
Cuba: postbox section added.
Czech Republic: thoroughfare types section added.
Denmark: spelling of "Aalborg" corrected throughout; personal name section expanded.
Dominica: postbox section added.
Dominican Republic: additional (new) postal code format added; postbox section added
East Timor: new currency information added.
Ecuador: postbox section added.
El Salvador: Address format modified; postal code information modified; postbox section added
Estonia: thoroughfare types section added.
Faeroe Islands: additional address format information added.
Falkland Islands: postal code section updated; address formats section updated.
French Polynesia: the territorial type has been altered; postbox section added
Georgia: current affair section updated; new postal code system information added
Ghana: Example address format section updated.
Guatemala: telephone number information updated.
Hong Kong: postbox section modified.
India: thoroughfare types section added; postbox section modified
Indonesia: thoroughfare types section added.
Iran: new postal code system information added
Iraq: updated postal code information provided; updated address format provided
Israel: information on address format for Palestinian Authority areas added.
Italy: province codes of Forlì-Cesena and Pesaro e Urbino corrected
Ivory Coast: postbox section modified.
Libya: administrative districts section updated.
Lithuania: new postal code system explained; thoroughfare types list expanded; postbox section added
Luxembourg: postbox section added.
Malaysia: postbox section added.
Mayotte: the territorial type has been altered.
Moldova: telephone number section updated.
Morocco: postbox section added.
Mozambique: new postal code system described; postal codes per province given
Namibia: Example address format section updated.
Nepal: postbox section added.
New Caledonia: additional territorial type information given.
Oman: telephone number section updated; postbox section added
Peru: telephone number section added; postbox section modified
Pitcairn Islands: address format information modified; new postal code information added.
Poland: thoroughfare types section expanded
Portugal: new building and thoroughfare types added; new building and thoroughfare type abbreviations added; extra address format information added; postbox information updated.
Romania: thoroughfare types section expanded. Changed thoroughfare strada to strad<0103>
Russia: thoroughfare types section added; ISO 4217 currency code corrected.
St Helena: New postal code added for Tristan de Cunha
Samoa: ISO 4217 currency code corrected.
Senegal: additional postal code information added.
Serbia & Montenegro: thoroughfare types section expanded; ISO 4217 currency code corrected; additional information about post to Kosovo added.
Singapore: postbox section added.
Slovenia: thoroughfare types section added.
Somalia: new postal code information provided; current affairs information updated; new address format given; new region codes table added.
South Africa: postbox section modified; address format section expanded.
South Korea: postboxes section added
Spain: additional information on Catalan added; additional information about use of provinces in address added.
Sudan: current affairs section updated.
Sweden: postbox section modified.
Tonga: postbox section added.
Turkey: thoroughfare types section, English translations added.
Turks & Caicos Islands: address format information modified; new postal code information added.
Ukraine: thoroughfare types section added.
United Kingdom: some limitations to postal code characters previously valid removed.
Vietnam: Address formats section rewritten, new postal code system described.
Venezuela: postbox section modified.
Zambia: postbox section added.
Zimbabwe: postbox section added.
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