Postal codes in Lithuania

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2-digit postcode areas Lithuania (defined through the first two postcode digits)

Postal codes in Lithuania since 2005 are 5 digit numeric, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 prefix is allowed, with that the format is LT-NNNNN.

Previous to 2005 it was NNNN, which was the old Soviet NNNNNN format with the first 2 digits (23) dropped.

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