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Repost from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8qt94a/endianess_of_date_and_address_formats_in_europe/

On the reddit comments some user wrote the address format for Russia is wrong on this map, they use big-endian as well.

Also Hungary is the only country in Europe where we use big endianness in names, aka Eastern name order: surname first, firstname second.

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[–] ColdSilenceAtrophies 4 points 1 year ago

On the UK post codes, you're pretty close to correct.

In the first part of the code, you've got 1-2 letters, which is the postcode area and usually based on a city name (W is West London in the BBC example). After the letters you've got 1-2 numbers (or a number followed by a letter, as in W1A). This gives a more granular division of the area, so it'll often refer to smaller towns.

The second part is used to narrow it down to a small group of actual addresses, although the number and area it covers varies.

I went down a bit of a Wikipedia rabbit hole while checking a couple of bits about the format, and learnt that there are actually a few special cases/non-geographic post codes, including the postcode XMA 5HQ, which is specifically for letters to Santa.