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postal-codes-ly

Field	Type	Description	Title
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 -- always LY	Country Code
postal_code	string	Always empty -- Libya has no operational postal code system. Not a data gap; see ATTRIBUTION.txt.	Postal Code
place_name	string	Locality/place name (GeoNames populated place)	Place Name
admin_name1	string	District (shabiyah) -- all 22 covered; blank where GeoNames assigns a place to no current district	Administrative Name 1
admin_code1	string	ISO 3166-2:LY code	Administrative Code 1
admin_name2	string	Not populated in this release	Administrative Name 2
admin_code2	string	Not populated	Administrative Code 2
admin_name3	string	Not populated	Administrative Name 3
admin_code3	string	Not populated	Administrative Code 3
latitude	number	GeoNames latitude (WGS84)	Latitude
longitude	number	GeoNames longitude (WGS84)	Longitude
accuracy	string	Not populated -- the GeoNames gazetteer dump carries no accuracy field	Accuracy
alternative_city_name	string	Not populated in this release	Alternative City Name

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Last updated: 6 October 2026
Total rows: 909
Format: CSV
File size: 55.2 kB
Sources: GeoNames gazetteer -- Libya (LY); GeoNames admin1 codes table
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

About this dataset

Libya (LY) — internal licensing notes

Source research, 2026-09-11 — structural fit check, not primarily a licensing question

Confirmed: Libya has no postal code system in current use. Libya Post (the national operator) delivers mail using descriptive addresses (locality, street or PO Box, country) rather than postcodes.

What was checked

GeoNames: no export exists — download.geonames.org/export/zip/LY.zip returns a plain 404. Consistent with no system to fetch.
Web research, 2026-09-11: multiple sources agree Libya has no postal code system. One genuinely notable finding: Libya was granted approval in 2019 to begin the first phase of a national postcode project — "decades in the making" per the source. This is a real, if slow-moving, rollout, not a settled "never will have one" case.
No evidence found of the 2019 project having produced a usable public list, bulk export, or even a pilot-city dataset as of this research pass.

Verdict (superseded below)

No build now, revisitable — same class as Uganda and Ethiopia in this catalogue (a real system is in progress, not deployed with a bulk source yet), not a permanent closure like Bolivia/Curaçao/Côte d'Ivoire/Zimbabwe. Check for progress on the 2019 postcode project in any future re-pass. data_available unchanged (false). No licence_status applies — there is no data to gate yet.

Revised 2026-09-15 — fresh live check, then issued free as a locality directory

Re-checked whether the 2019 postcode project (or the more recent Benghazi postal-addressing/building-numbering initiative) has gone live. It has not: web research 2026-09-15 turns up a 2021 Tripoli pilot (attaching postcodes to individual buildings, not a public code list) and Benghazi Municipality planning meetings reported as recently as 2024–2026, still described as field-survey/database-construction stage. No operational bulk-available postcode list, lookup API, or pilot dataset was found for either effort. Libya Post's own site (libyapost.ly) and Libya's General Information Authority addressing portal (ldil.gia.gov.ly) show no downloadable postcode data. download.geonames.org/export/zip/LY.zip still 404s (confirmed 2026-09-15), consistent with no system to fetch.

Human decision (matching Bolivia/Côte d'Ivoire/Ethiopia/Uganda): rather than ship nothing, issue what CAN be known (district/shabiyah, locality names, coordinates) as a free dataset, with postal_code intentionally and permanently empty on every row. This does not reopen the "no postal codes" verdict above — Libya still has none in operational bulk-available form, and this is not sold as if it did.

Source: GeoNames' MAIN gazetteer dump (download.geonames.org/export/dump/LY.zip) — a different GeoNames product from the postal-code export (which 404s for Libya, as documented above). Filtered to feature class P (populated places). Licence CC BY 4.0, same as the postal export elsewhere in this catalogue.

admin_code1 derived to ISO 3166-2:LY via a verified name crosswalk (22 current popularates/shabiyat, confirmed against Wikipedia's ISO_3166-2:LY page 2026-09-15). Unlike Ethiopia (2 unmapped post-reform regions) or Panama, this mapping is clean — all 22 of GeoNames' own LY admin1 buckets correspond one-to-one to all 22 current ISO codes.

Build — 2026-09-15

Built via datasets/ly/scripts/build_postal_codes_product.py.

	value
Final rows	909
Districts (shabiyat) covered	22/22
Rows with unresolved admin1 (stale/legacy GeoNames admin1 codes not in the current admin1CodesASCII reference — e.g. pre-reform numeric codes 00, 11, 19, 30, 36, 47, 49, 55, 56, 58, 61)	22

Frictionless validation: valid: True (run from inside datasets/ly/data/, per the mandatory delivered-artifact rule). is_premium: false — datasets/ly/datapackage.yml updated accordingly, data_available: true.

Status: built, validated, and published. Main R2 bucket (postal-codes/ly/) and samples bucket (postal-codes-samples/ly/ly.csv, full file — this product is free) both updated 2026-09-15. _meta/catalog.json's LY entry updated to match (909 rows, 56,092 bytes); entry count confirmed unchanged at 248 before and after.