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   Note: This section last updated 11th May 2021

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 11th May 2021

In English:

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In Nyanja:

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   14:32

Malawi counts 15 languages. The official languages are English and Nyanja (3 200 000 speakers). Also spoken are Afrikaans ; Kachchi ; Kokola (74 466 speakers); Lambya (41 000 speakers); Lomwe (1 550 000 speakers); Mpoto (40 000 speakers); Ngoni (758 000 speakers); Nkakyusa-Ngonde (300 000 speakers); Malawi Sena (255 000 speakers); Tonga (662 000 speakers); Yao (1 003 000 speakers) and Zulu (37 480 speakers).

   Note: This section last updated 29th March 2021

Addresses will usually be a post office box or private bag number and will be written in English.

Though postal deliveries are only to mailing addresses, street addresses will be found for the use of couriers, visitors etc. As not all streets are named, these may often be descriptive and unstructured. Examples:

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

This is written PO Box.

   Note: This section last updated 19th August 2019

Malawi introduced a postal code systems on 19^th May 2019. The codes have 6 digits in the format 999999.

The first digit indicates the region: 1 for Northern, 2 for Central and 3 for Southern.

The next two digits indicate the district or city. Check the table in the “Administrative Districts” section for the postal code ranges per district.

The fourth digit is a 1 for rural areas, and a 2, 3 or 4 for urban areas.

The final two digits indicate the (Sub-)transitional authority, (urban) area, community (BOMA), national park, reserve or township.

   This regions/postal code data can be acquired as a data file 

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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Malawi - Postal code format

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   Note: This section last updated 5th August 2014

Refer to Exonyms in Malawi for full lists of place names in Malawi in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 5th October 2022

Malawi has 28 districts split into three regions: Northern, Central and Southern:

Region	District	Postal code range
Northern	Chitipa	101100-101109
	Karonga	102100-102106
	Likoma	107100-107101
	Mzimba	104100-104114, 105200-105216
	Nkhata Bay	106100-106113
	Rumphi	103100-103112
Central	Dedza	209100-209108
	Dowa	204100-204109
	Kasungu	201100-201126, 201300-201311
	Lilongwe	206101-206118, 207201-207258
	Mchinji	205100-205113
	Ntcheu	210100-210111
	Nkhotakota	202100-202109
	Ntchisi	203100-203107
	Salima	208100-208111
Southern	Balaka	302100-302110
	Blantyre	311101-311111, 312200-312328
	Chikwawa	315100-315115
	Chiradzulu	306100-306109
	Machinga (Kasupe)	303100-303118
	Mangochi	301100-301114, 301400-301412
	Mulanje	308100-308109
	Mwanza	314100-314103
	Neno	313100-313105
	Nsanje	316100-316111
	Phalombe	307100-307107
	Thyolo	309300, 310100-310115
	Zomba	304101-304112, 305200-305219

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   Note: This section last updated 5th March 2014

Malawian telephone numbers have no area codes. Subscriber numbers have 7 or 9 digits. Mobile numbers commence with 111, 77, 88 or 99.