page_title: List of postal codes in Spain
section_title: Two-digit prefixes
hierarchical_section_title: List of postal codes in Spain / Two-digit prefixes
caption_attribution_description: English: 2-digit postcode areas Spain (defined through the first two postcode digits).
context_page_description: Spanish postal codes were introduced on 1 July 1984, when the Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos introduced automated mail sorting. They consist of five numerical digits, where the first two digits, ranging 01 to 52, correspond either to one of the 50 provinces of Spain or to one of the two autonomous cities on the African coast.
context_section_description: The first two digits of a Spanish postal code identify the province or autonomous city it belongs to. The numbers were assigned to the 50 provinces of Spain ordered alphabetically at the time of implementation. The official names of some of the provinces have since changed, either to the regional language version of the name (e.g. from the Spanish Guipúzcoa to the Basque Gipuzkoa) or to adopt the name of the autonomous community instead of the provincial capital (e.g. Santander to Cantabria). In these cases, the originally assigned code has been maintained, resulting in some exceptions to the alphabetical order. In addition, Ceuta and Melilla were originally included within the postal areas of Cádiz and Málaga respectively; in 1995 they were assigned their own codes and hence ended up at the end of the list.
  The list below includes all 52 two-digit prefixes assigned to the 50 provinces and two autonomous cities. Included in brackets are the names of the provinces that were used for alphabetical sorting at the time of implementation, if different from the current name used in English.
  01 Álava
  02 Albacete
  03 Alicante
  04 Almería
  05 Ávila
  06 Badajoz
  07 Balearic Islands (Baleares)
  08 Barcelona
  09 Burgos
  10 Cáceres
  11 Cádiz
  12 Castellón
  13 Ciudad Real
  14 Córdoba
  15 A Coruña (Coruña, La)
  16 Cuenca
  17 Girona (Gerona)
  18 Granada
  19 Guadalajara
  20 Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa)
  21 Huelva
  22 Huesca
  23 Jaén
  24 León
  25 Lleida (Lérida)
  26 La Rioja (Logroño)
  27 Lugo
  28 Madrid
  29 Málaga
  30 Murcia
  31 Navarre (Navarra)
  32 Ourense (Orense)
  33 Asturias (Oviedo)
  34 Palencia
  35 Las Palmas (Palmas, Las)
  36 Pontevedra
  37 Salamanca
  38 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
  39 Cantabria (Santander)
  40 Segovia
  41 Seville (Sevilla)
  42 Soria
  43 Tarragona
  44 Teruel
  45 Toledo
  46 Valencia
  47 Valladolid
  48 Biscay (Vizcaya)
  49 Zamora
  50 Zaragoza
  51 Ceuta
  52 Melilla
caption: Two-digit postcode areas
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