Hi, I’m Jérôme Urbain, head of Products, wishing you a Happy New Year. I’ll be here to share more location data knowledge this 2026 and look forward to achieving great results together. Let’s dive into this month's updates!
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📍 How we kept your ZIP code data up to date in 2025
🌟 Country update highlights
🔎 Monthly changes
🌍 The furthest point from Earth’s center
How we kept your ZIP code data up to date in 2025
In 2025, thousands of ZIP codes changed worldwide. Your operations weren’t affected because maintaining that complexity isn’t something you manage alone. This is exactly the kind of challenge GeoPostcodes acts as a long-term data partner for.
Updated Postal Boundaries in Lithuania and Ukraine
We’ve refreshed our postal boundary data for Lithuania and Ukraine, with a strong focus on large cities. This update integrates additional postal codes, reduces outliers, and cleans geometries.
Postal Boundaries in Vilnius, Lithuania
What this means for you: Broader postal code coverage, cleaner boundary shapes, and fewer multipolygons.
Administrative divisions update in Italy
We’ve implemented the latest administrative changes in Sardinia. Provincia del Sud Sardegna has been split into four new provinces, and Sassari has been upgraded to a Città Metropolitana. These changes are now linked to the latest official statistical codes from ISTAT (Italian National Institute of Statistics).
What this means for you: Up-to-date administrative structures fully aligned with official Italian statistics.
Post Towns introduced in Serbia & Slovenia
To better align with the recommended address formats in Serbia and Slovenia, we’ve introduced the post_town field for both countries.
What this means for you: Improved address validation and writing accuracy. All other address fields remain unchanged in granularity and definition.
MONTHLY CHANGES
In December, we updated201,034rowsin our postal database.
