Manchester postal code

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Manchester information


Postcode areas: M, WA
Post town: Manchester
Dialling code: 0161
Population: 53782
Elevation: 59m (194ft)
County: Greater Manchester
Country: England


Postcode areas of Manchester are M, WA.

Post town of postcode area 'M' is Manchester. Dialling code of Manchester is 0161. Manchester has 59m (194ft) altitude.

The coordinates of Manchester are: 53.4807593 lat, -2.2426305 lng.

Manchester belongs to Greater Manchester County. Manchester belongs to England. England is constituent country of United Kingdom.

The United Kingdom (UK) comprises four countries: England, Scotland and Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland.

Every UK postcode format consists of two halves, an "Outward" and an "Inward".

These two halves allow anyone at the sorting office to quickly route any item going through any sorting office. First off the Outward and Inward halves of any postcode format are separated by a space. The Outward half of a Postcode consists of one or two alpha characters (Postcode Areas) followed by one of two numeric characters (Postcode Districts).


Example: SO15 2GB

The Inward half of the postcode format (easily identified as appearing after the space in any postcode) consists of just one numeric followed by two alpha characters.


Example: SO15 2GB


*sources: wikipedia.org