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Zimbabwe Locality Directory (No Postal Code System)

Field	Description	Title
country_code	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the country.	Country Code
postal_code	Postal code for the location. Always empty -- Zimbabwe has no operational postal code system.	Postal Code
place_name	Name of the city, town, or place.	Place Name
admin_name1	Primary administrative division (e.g., state, region).	Administrative Name 1
admin_code1	Code for the primary administrative division.	Administrative Code 1
admin_name2	Secondary administrative division (e.g., county, district).	Administrative Name 2
admin_code2	Code for the secondary administrative division.	Administrative Code 2
admin_name3	Tertiary administrative division (e.g., municipality, borough).	Administrative Name 3
admin_code3	Code for the tertiary administrative division.	Administrative Code 3
latitude	Latitude coordinate of the place.	Latitude
longitude	Longitude coordinate of the place.	Longitude
accuracy	Accuracy level of the latitude and longitude coordinates.	Accuracy
alternative_city_name	Alternative name(s) for the city or place.	Alternative City Name

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Last updated: 15 September 2026
Total rows: ...
Format: CSV
File size: 122 kB
Source: GeoNames gazetteer -- Zimbabwe (ZW)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

About this dataset

Zimbabwe (ZW) — internal licensing notes

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

Confirmed: Zimbabwe has no postal code system. Zimpost (the national postal operator, since 1892) delivers mail using descriptive addresses — locality, street or PO Box, country — rather than postcodes. Confirmed independently via web research 2026-09-11, consistent with the existing FedEx-schema registry entry for ZWE in fedex-agents-prototype/CLAUDE.md ("no postal code system").

What was checked

GeoNames: no export exists — download.geonames.org/export/zip/ZW.zip returns a plain 404, consistent with there being nothing to fetch.
Existing FedEx-schema build: fedex-agents-prototype/countries/ZWE/ already has a real admin-only build (data/Zimbabwe.csv, data/admin.csv, research.json, qa_log.json) — Province → District, with the finding that "1,970 wards exist but no open tabular dataset" exists for a real admin3 tier within a 5-year recency window. That build could be reused/ converted as the admin source for a free locality directory here, same approach as Bolivia/Côte d'Ivoire/Ethiopia/Uganda's admin-only builds earlier in this project — not attempted in this pass (research only).

Verdict

Permanent close-out as a postal-codes product — same class as Bolivia/Curaçao/Côte d'Ivoire. No licence_status applies to the postal-code question (there is no data to gate). data_available unchanged (false). If a free admin-only locality directory is wanted (matching BO/CW/CI/ET/UG), the existing FedEx ZWE build or GeoNames' main gazetteer dump are both real starting points for a future build pass.

Build — 2026-09-15

Re-checked for a real postal-code system before building: no evidence found (web search 2026-09-15) of any operational Zimpost/government postcode rollout; aggregator sites (geopostcodes.com, postcodebase.com) surface non-official placeholder codes, not a real system — same pattern seen elsewhere in this catalogue. download.geonames.org/export/zip/ZW.zip still 404s. Proceeded with the free locality-only build, same class as BO/CW/CI/ET/UG/LY.

Built datasets/zw/scripts/build_postal_codes_product.py from GeoNames' main gazetteer dump (download.geonames.org/export/dump/ZW.zip, CC BY 4.0), filtered to feature class P (populated places).

2,101 rows, postal_code empty on every row (structural fact, not a gap).
admin_code1 (ISO 3166-2:ZW): 10/10 provinces covered. Verified the ISO list directly against Wikipedia's ISO_3166-2:ZW page (2026-09-15): BU, HA, MA, MC, ME, MW, MV, MN, MS, MI. GeoNames' own 10 ZW admin1 buckets (ZW.01–ZW.10) map cleanly one-to-one onto all 10 ISO codes by name — no unmapped bucket. Independently cross-checked against fedex-agents-prototype/countries/ZWE/research.json, which reports the same 10 provinces and the same ISO codes from its own Wikipedia research pass.
2 of 2,101 rows carry GeoNames' reserved admin1 code 00 ("general features where no specific adm1 code is defined") — left with blank admin_name1/admin_code1 rather than guessed.
admin_name2/admin_code2/admin_name3/admin_code3/accuracy/ alternative_city_name not populated in this release (GeoNames' main dump doesn't carry a district/ward tier or a postal-accuracy scale).
licence_status.decision: compatible (CC BY 4.0, GeoNames), channel postal-codes-r2.

Published to both R2 buckets (main postal-codes full package + zip; postal-codes-samples full csv, since this is a free dataset with no paid tier to hold back) and updated the main bucket's _meta/catalog.json ZW entry (bytes/rows/updated) — entry count confirmed unchanged at 248 before and after. datasets/zw/datapackage.yml updated to is_premium: false, data_available: true, with real GeoNames CC BY 4.0 sources/licenses.