A complete list of all Nigeria zip or postal code
Postal codes in Nigeria are numeric, comprising of six numbers. NIPOST, the Nigerian Postal Service, divides the nation into nine (9) districts, which make up the initial digit of the code. The second and third numbers joined with the first, is the dispatch area for active arranging. The last three numbers speak of a strategic/public location. This strategic/public can be any of the following; a mail station office, a provincial region, or an urban territory.
Nigeria is made up of six geo-political zones with each geo-political zone having a similar ethnicity and foundation, social practices and history. The geo-political have helped in the powerful distribution of resources by the administration and was made during the rule of General Ibrahim Babangida. The six geo-political zones are; North East, North West, North Central, South, South West, and South East. Every one of the states in the 6 geo-political zones has its unique postal codes.
However, Nigeria doesn’t have ZIP codes; ZIP codes are only used and available in the United States of America. Instead, Nigeria uses postal codes for different states, depending on the state that you are located when required to give a ZIP code provide the postal code of the particular state you stay.
Below is a list of the 36 states and the F.C.T. with their postal code
Abia State – 440001
Adamawa State – 640001
Akwa Ibom State – 520001
Anambra State – 420001
Bauchi State – 740001
Bayelsa State – 561001
Benue State – 970001
Borno State – 600001
Cross River State – 540001
Delta State – 320001
Ebonyi State – 840001
Edo State – 300001
Ekiti State – 360001
Enugu State – 400001
F.C.T. – 900001
Gombe State – 760001
Imo State – 460001
Jigawa State – 720001
Kaduna State – 700001
Kano State – 800001
Katsina State – 820001
Kebbi State – 860001
Kogi State – 260001
Kwara State – 240001
Lagos State – 100001/101001
Nasarawa State – 962001
Niger State – 920001
Ogun State – 110001
Ondo State – 340001
Osun State – 230001
Oyo State – 200001
Plateau State – 930001
Rivers State – 500001
Sokoto State – 840001
Taraba State – 660001
Yobe State – 320001
Zamfara State – 860001
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