UK Postcode Format Breakdown

UK postcodes are broken down/divided into 4 levels: Areas, Districts, Sectors, and Units.

RegEX for filtering can be found in this post: UK Postcode Breakdown RegEX.

For G12 8QH the breakdown is:
Area – G
District – G12
Sector – G12 8
Unit – G12 8QH

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Geographically this breaks down as:
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