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Australia States and territories[]The first one or two numbers usually show the state or territory that the postcode belongs to2-digit postcode areas AustraliaState/Territory Abbreviation Postcode rangeNew South Wales NSW 1000—1999 (LVRs and PO Boxes only) 2000—25992619—28992921—2999Australian Capital Territory ACT 0200—0299 (LVRs and PO Boxes only) 2600—26182900—2920Victoria VIC 3000—39998000—8999 (LVRs and PO Boxes only)Queensland QLD 4000—49999000—9999 (LVRs and PO Boxes only)South Australia SA 5000—57995800—5999 (LVRs and PO Boxes only)Western Australia WA 6000—67976800—6999 (LVRs and PO Boxes only)Tasmania TAS 7000—77997800—7999 (LVRs and PO Boxes only)Sometimes near the state and territory borders, Australia Post finds it easier to send mail through a nearby post office that is across the border:Postcode Locality State derived fromPostcode rangesActual Statefor this locality0872 ALPURRURULAM NT QLD0872 ERNABELLA NT SA0872 FREGON NT SA0872 INDULKANA NT SA0872 MIMILI NT SA0872 NGAANYATJARRA-GILES NT WA0872 GIBSON DESERT NORTH NT WA0872 GIBSON DESERT SOUTH NT WA2540 HMAS CRESWELL NSW Jervis Bay Territory 2540 JERVIS BAY NSW Jervis Bay Territory 2611 BRINDABELLA ACT NSW2611 URIARRA ACT NSW 2620 HUME NSW ACT 2620 KOWEN FOREST NSW ACT 2620 OAKS ESTATE NSW ACT 2620 THARWA NSW ACT 2620 TOP NAAS NSW ACT 3500 PARINGI VIC NSW 3585 MURRAY DOWNS VIC NSW 3586 MALLAN VIC NSW 3644 BAROOGA VIC NSW 3644 LALALTY VIC NSW 3707 BRINGENBRONG VIC NSW These postcodes do not follow the rule above:Some or all of the postcodes above may cover two states. For example postcode 2620 covers both a locality in NSW (Gundaroo) as well as a locality in the ACT (Hume) - the postcode is within the ACT range.Jervis Bay Territory, once an exclave of the ACT but now a separate territory, is geographically located on the coast of NSW. It is just south of the towns of Vincentia and Huskisson, with which it shares a postcode. Mail to the Jervis Bay Territory is still addressed to the ACT.The numbers used to show the state on each radio callsign in Australia are the same number as the first number for postcodes in that state, e.g. 2xx in New South Wales, 3xx in Victoria, etc. Radio callsigns pre-date postcodes in Australia by more than forty years.External territories[]Australia's external territories are also included in Australia Post's postcode system. While these territories do not belong to any state, they are addressed as such for mail sorting:Three scientific bases in Antarctica operated by the Australian National Antarctic Research Exp ions share a postcode with the isolated sub-Antarctic island of Macquarie Island (part of Tasmania):State and territory capital cities[]Each state's capital city ends with three zeroes, while territorial capital cities end with two zeroes. Capital city postcodes were the lowest postcodes in their state or territory range, before new ranges for LVRs and PO Boxes were made available. The last number can usually be changed from "0" to "1" to get the postcode for General Post Office boxes in any capital city (though Perth now uses a different range of postcodes for its GPO Boxes):Allocation within states[]While the first number of a postcode usually shows the state or territory, the second number usually shows a region within the state. However, postcodes with the same second number are not always next to each other. As an example, postcodes in the range 2200–2299 are split between the southern suburbs of Sydney and the Central Coast of New South Wales.Postcodes with a second number of "0" or "1" are almost always located within the metropolitan area of the state's capital city. Postcodes with higher second numbers are usually located in rural and regional areas. Common exceptions are where towns were rural when postcodes were first introduced in 1967, but have since been suburbanised and incorporated into metropolitan areas, e.g. Penrith, New South Wales has the postcode 2750 and Petrie, Queensland has the postcode 4502.Within each region with the same second number, postcodes usually get bigger the further one travels from the state's capital city along major highways and railways. For instance, heading north on the North Coast railway in New South Wales away from Sydney:Major towns and cities[]Major towns and cities tend to have "0" as the last number or last two numbers,e.g. Rockhampton, Queensland has the postcode 4700 and Ballarat, Victoria has the postcode 3350. There are exceptions; the major town of Ipswich, Queensland has the postcode 4305, while Goodna, a relatively unimportant suburb of Ipswich, is allocated 4300.。