50-610: The Range is an inner suburb of Rockhampton in the Rockhampton Region , Queensland , Australia. In the 2021 census , The Range had a population of 5,231 people. The suburb is built on the Athelstane Range with Agnes Street approximating the ridge line. The suburb takes its name from the Athelstane Range, which was named in turn for Mount Athelstane, the name of the house built by lands commissioner William Wiseman circa 1859. Rockhampton's first water storage
100-501: A correctly formatted postal address: The Belgian addressing guidelines are registered with the Universal Postal Union ( UPU and see the link Universal Postal Union – Postal addressing systems in member countries ). These guidelines indicate exactly how to combine the various address components in order to obtain a correctly formatted postal address. The complete set of addressing guidelines can be found on
150-428: A forward slash (/) instead. Apartment, flat and unit numbers, if necessary, are shown immediately prior to the street number (which might be a range), and, as noted above, are separated from the street number by a forward slash. These conventions can cause confusion. To clarify, 3/17 Adam Street would mean Apartment 3 (before the slash) at 17 Adam Street (in the case of a residential address) or Unit 3 at 17 Adam St (in
200-548: A four digit format to an eight digit format, which is shown in the example. The new format adds a district or province letter code at the beginning, which allows it to be identified. As the system has been changed recently, the four digit format can still be used: in that case it is necessary to add the name of the province or district. In common with the rest of the English-speaking world, addresses in Australia put
250-466: A generic postcode with the suffix -000. Recipients of bulk mail (large companies, condos, etc.) have specific postcodes, with a suffix ranging from -900 to -959. P.O. boxes are mailed to Correios offices, with suffixes ranging from -970 to -979. Some rural settlements have community postboxes with suffix -990. Similar to Belgium and most other European countries, in Bulgaria the address starts with
300-599: A house name is written on the previous line. When addresses are written inline, line breaks are replaced by commas. Conventions on the placing of house numbers differ: either before or after the street name. Similarly, there are differences in the placement of postal codes: in the UK, they are written on a separate line at the end of the address; in Australia, Canada and the United States, they usually appear immediately after
350-464: A physical address (including building, wing, stairwell, floor and door) may be useful for internal path of delivery, but is not allowed in the delivery point location line (i.e. the line containing street, number and box number). If needed, this information will appear on a line above the delivery point location line. The street number is placed after the thoroughfare name (unlike in France), separated by
400-415: A plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or apartment numbers and organization name. Some addresses also contain special codes, such as a postal code , to make identification easier and aid in the routing of mail . Addresses provide a means of physically locating a building. They are used in identifying buildings as
450-521: A space. Separators such as punctuation (point, comma or other signs) or "nº", or "nr" are not allowed. Extension designation (box numbers), if present, appears in the delivery point location line, preceded by the word for "box" ( bus in Dutch, bte in French). Symbols such as b , Bt , # , - , / are not allowed as separators between the street number element and the box number element. Examples of
500-517: A street being numbered was Prescot Street in Goodman’s Fields in 1708. Street naming and numbering began under the age of Enlightenment , also as part of campaigns for census and military conscription, such as in the dominions of Maria Theresa in the mid 18th century. Numbering allowed the efficient delivery of mail, as the postal system evolved in the 18th and 19th centuries to reach widespread usage. Comprehensive addressing of all buildings
550-460: A way that some, or most, apartment buildings don't face a named street. In this case, a number of expedients can be used. In older neighbourhoods, a "main" building may have the same number as one or more "subsidiary" buildings accessible via driveways behind the main building. They will be addressed as vul. Lenina, d. 123 ( 123 Lenin St ) An address may also cover one or more subsidiary buildings behind
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#1732773323569600-487: Is a Catholic secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at 210 Upper Dawson Road ( 23°24′05″S 150°30′02″E / 23.4015°S 150.5005°E / -23.4015; 150.5005 ( Rockhampton Flexible Learning Centre ) ). An initiative of Edmund Rice Education Australia , it provides individual programs for young people in the Rockhampton area who have disengaged from regular schooling. In 2023,
650-414: Is always considered incorrect to include the city or metropolis name in an address (unless this happens to be the name of the suburb), and doing so may delay delivery. Australia Post recommends that the last line of the address should be set in capital letters. In Australia, subunits are essential and should be separated from the street by two spaces; apartments, flats and units are typically separated with
700-407: Is an alternating numbering scheme progressing in each direction along a street, with odd numbers on one side (often west or south or the left-hand side leading away from a main road) and even numbers on the other side, although there is significant variation on this basic pattern. Many older towns and cities in the UK have "up and down" numbering where the numbers progress sequentially along one side of
750-794: Is in use in Detroit with the Mile Road System . In some housing developments in North America and elsewhere, street names may all follow the same theme (for example, bird species), or start with the same letter. Streets in Continental Europe , the Middle East , and Latin America are often named after famous people or significant dates. Postal codes are a relatively recent development in addressing, designed to speed
800-480: Is split between the City of Newcastle and City of Lake Macquarie LGAs; and Woodville , which is split between the City of Maitland and Port Stephens Council LGAs. In unincorporated areas , localities are declared by the relevant state authority. Address An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used to give the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or
850-660: Is still incomplete, even in developed countries. For example, the Navajo Nation in the United States was still assigning rural addresses as of 2015 and the lack of addresses can be used for voter disenfranchisement in the USA. In many cities in Asia , most minor streets were never named, and this is still the case today in much of Japan. Over a third of addresses in Ireland shared their address with at least one other property at
900-548: Is the principal identification scheme in many parts of the world, it is also common for houses in the United Kingdom and Ireland to be identified by name, rather than number, especially in villages. In these cases, the street name will usually follow the house name. Such an address might read: "Smith Cottage, Frog Lane, Barchester, Barsetshire, BZ9 9BA" or "Dunroamin, Emo, Co. Laois, Ireland" (fictional examples). In cities with Cartesian-coordinate-based addressing systems,
950-631: The 2006 census , The Range had a population of 5,731 people. In the 2011 census , The Range had a population of 5,369 people. In the 2016 census , The Range had a population of 5,400 people. In the 2021 census , The Range had a population of 5,231 people. The Range has a number of heritage-listed properties, including: St Peter's Catholic Primary School is a Catholic primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 170 Upper Dawson Road ( 23°23′55″S 150°30′04″E / 23.39865°S 150.50112°E / -23.39865; 150.50112 ( St Peter's Catholic Primary School ) ). In 2018,
1000-580: The Northern Territory had not completed this process. The CGNA's Gazetteer of Australia recognises two types of locality: bounded and unbounded. Bounded localities include towns, villages, populated places, local government towns and unpopulated town sites, while unbounded localities include place names, road corners and bends, corners, meteorological stations, ocean place names and surfing spots. Sometimes, both localities and suburbs are referred to collectively as "address localities". In
1050-995: The US, the state/territory is crucial information as many placenames are reused in different states/territories; it is usually separated from the suburb with two spaces and abbreviated. In printed matter, the postcode follows after two spaces; in handwritten matter, the postcode should be written in the boxes provided. Other recipient information (etc.) Street (Subunit Number Name) Locality State Postcode Finance and Accounting Australia Post 219–241 Cleveland St STRAWBERRY HILLS NSW 1427 Other recipient information (etc.) Type Number Locality State Postcode Lighthouse Promotions PO Box 215 SPRINGVALE VIC 3171 In addition to PO Boxes, other delivery types (which are typically abbreviated) may include: Australian Post Addressing Guidelines In rural areas, "Property numbers are worked out based on
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#17327733235691100-457: The addressee and ending with the largest geographical unit. For example: In English-speaking countries, the postal code usually comes last. In much of Europe, the code precedes the town name, thus: "1010 Lausanne ". Sometimes, the ISO 3166 country code is placed in front of the postal code: " CH -1010 Lausanne ". If a house number is provided, it is written on the same line as the street name;
1150-447: The case of a business park ). On the other hand, 3–17 Adam Street would specify a large building (or cluster of related buildings) occupying the lots spanning street numbers 3 to 17 on one side of Adam St (without specifying any particular place within the buildings). These forms can be combined, so 3/5–9 Eve Street signifies Apartment 3 (before the slash) in a building which spans street numbers 5 to 9 on one side of Eve Street. As in
1200-513: The content and the format of an address. In Brazil , an address must be written this way: States can have their name written in full, abbreviated in some way, or totally abbreviated to two letters (SP = São Paulo , RJ = Rio de Janeiro , etc.). Only towns with 60,000 inhabitants and above have postal codes individualized for streets, roads, avenues, etc. One street can have several postal codes (by odd/even numbers side or by segment). These postcodes range from -000 to -899. Other towns have only
1250-456: The delivery point location line, preceded by the word for "box" (" П.К. {numeral}", " П. К. {numeral}", or " Пощенска кутия {numeral}"). Symbols such as # , - , / are not strictly disallowed as separators between the street number element and the box number element. Note that there may sometimes be a confusion between П.К. ( пощенски код , postal code (of the local post office) ) and П.К. ( пощенска кутия , P.O. (post office box) ,
1300-461: The distance from the start of the road to the entrance of the property. That distance (in metres) is divided by ten. Even numbers are on the right and odd numbers are on the left. For example: the entrance to a property 5,080 metres from the start of the road on the right hand side becomes number 508. The start of the road is determined as the fastest and safest road accessed from the nearest major road or town. Rural road maps are being drawn up to define
1350-428: The end points of a postal system and as parameters in statistics collection, especially in census -taking and the insurance industry. Address formats are different in different places, and unlike latitude and longitude coordinates, there is no simple mapping from an address to a location. Until the 18th and 19th centuries, most houses and buildings were not numbered. In London, one of the first recorded instances of
1400-438: The first instance, decisions about the names and boundaries of suburbs and localities are made by the local council in which they are located based on criteria such as community recognition. Local council decisions are, however, subject to approval by the state's geographical names board. The boundaries of some suburbs and localities overlap two or more local government areas (LGAs). Examples of this are Adamstown Heights , which
1450-506: The intersection of North Calvert Street and East 27th Street can be only in the northeast quadrant. Street names may follow a variety of themes. In many North American cities, such as San Francisco , USA, and Edmonton , Alberta and Vancouver , British Columbia , streets are simply numbered sequentially across the street grid. Numbered streets originated in the United States in Philadelphia by Thomas Holme who laid out
1500-407: The line containing street, number and box number). If needed, this information will appear on a line above the delivery point location line. The street number is placed after the thoroughfare name (unlike in France), separated by a space and the symbol 'No. '. Separators such as punctuation (point, comma or other signs) are allowed if needed. Extension designation (box numbers), if present, appears in
1550-553: The main building, addressed as vul. Lenina, d. 123, bud. 2 ( 123 Lenin St, unit 2 , where bud. (abbreviation for будынак, budynak ) means a '(subsidiary) building'). In newer areas with more regular street plans, apartment buildings that do not face a named street may be designated with Cyrillic letters appended to the building number, e.g. 123-а , 123-б , etc., in Cyrillic alphabetical order. In some microraion neighbourhoods, with few, if any, buildings facing named streets,
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1600-400: The most specific information (addressee individual identification) and ends with the most general information (town and postcode for domestic mail or country for cross border (international) mail.) Spatial information of a physical address (including building, wing, stairwell, floor and door) may be useful for internal path of delivery, but is not allowed in the delivery point location line (i.e.
1650-490: The name (or more likely number of the microraion (planned housing development)) would be used instead of the street name; thus someone may live at 4-th microrayon, d. 123, kv. 56 , i.e. 123 – 4th Microraion, apt. 56 . Source: Belposhta In Belgium , the address starts with the most specific information (addressee individual identification) and ends with the most general information (postcode and town for domestic mail or country for cross border mail.) Spatial information of
1700-403: The name, the start point and direction of every rural road." In Austria , the address is generally formatted as follows: The postal code always consists of four digits. In Bangladesh , the format used for rural and urban addresses is different. Urban Addresses The postal code always consists of four digits. Rural Addresses In Belarus , some neighbourhoods may be planned in such
1750-428: The original plan for the city in 1683. Washington, D.C. has its numbered streets running north–south and lettered or alphabetically named streets running east–west, while diagonal avenues are typically named after states. In Salt Lake City , and many other Utah cities, streets are in a large grid and are numbered in increments of 100 based on their location relative to the center of the city in blocks. A similar system
1800-608: The past as informal units, but in 1996 the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) decided to name and establish official boundaries for all localities and suburbs. There has subsequently been a process to formally define their boundaries and to gazette them, which is almost complete. In March 2006, only South Australia and
1850-452: The recipient's name. However, both have the same order as western countries when written in the Latin script . The Hungarian system also goes from large to small units, except that the name of the addressee is put into the first line. The Universal Postal Convention strongly recommends the following: In Argentina , an address must be mailed this way: The postal code has been changed from
1900-482: The road, and then sequentially back down the other side. Cities in North America , particularly those planned on a grid plan , often incorporate block numbers, quadrants (explained below), and cardinal directions into their street numbers, so that in many such cities, addresses roughly follow a Cartesian coordinate system . Some other cities around the world have their own schemes. Although house numbering
1950-484: The school had an enrolment of 1343 students with 115 teachers (103 full-time equivalent) and 93 non-teaching staff (74 full-time equivalent). Rockhampton Girls Grammar School is a private primary and secondary (Prep-12) school for girls at the corner of Denham and Agnes Streets ( 23°23′19″S 150°29′45″E / 23.3885°S 150.4958°E / -23.3885; 150.4958 ( Rockhampton Girls Grammar School ) ). Rockhampton Flexible Learning Centre
2000-436: The school had an enrolment of 343 students with 22 teachers (20 full-time equivalent) and 14 non-teaching staff (8 full-time equivalent). The Rockhampton Grammar School is a private primary and secondary (Prep-12) school for boys and girls at 53-89 Archer Street ( 23°23′05″S 150°29′40″E / 23.3848°S 150.4945°E / -23.3848; 150.4945 ( The Rockhampton Grammar School ) ). In 2018,
2050-454: The school had an enrolment of 84 students. There are a number of parks in the area: Suburbs and localities (Australia) Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia , used mainly for address purposes. The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. This Australian usage of
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2100-518: The sorting and processing of mail by assigning unique numeric or alphanumeric codes to each geographical locality. For privacy and other purposes, postal services have made it possible to receive mail without revealing one's physical address or even having a fixed physical address. Examples are post office boxes , service addresses and poste restante (general delivery). In most of the world, addresses are written in order from most specific to general, i.e. finest to coarsest information, starting with
2150-457: The state or province, on the same line; in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and The Netherlands they appear before the city, on the same line. East Asian addressing systems , including Chinese, Japanese , Korean , and Taiwanese addressing systems, when written in their native scripts, use the big-endian order, from the largest geographical area to the smallest geographical area, followed by
2200-431: The street number—which may be a range—before the street name, and the placename before the postcode. Unlike addresses in most other comparable places, the city is not included in the address, but rather a much more fine-grained locality is used, usually referred to in Australia as a suburb or locality – although these words are understood in a different way than in other countries. Because the suburb or town serves to locate
2250-485: The street or delivery type, the postcode serves only as routing information rather than to distinguish previous other parts of an address. As an example, there are around 8,000 localities in Victoria (cf. List of localities in Victoria and List of Melbourne suburbs ), yet around 700 unique geographic postcodes. For certain large volume receivers or post offices, the " locality " may be an institution or street name. It
2300-433: The streets that form the north–south and east–west dividing lines constitute the x and y axes of a Cartesian coordinate plane and thus divide the city into quadrants. The quadrants are typically identified in the street names, although the manner of doing so varies from city to city. For example, in one city, all streets in the northeast quadrant may have "NE" prefixed or suffixed to their street names, while in another,
2350-585: The term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage, where it typically means a smaller, frequently separate residential community outside, but close to, a larger city. The Australian usage is closer to the American or British use of "district" or "neighbourhood", and can be used to refer to any portion of a city. Unlike the use in British or American English, this term can include inner-city, outer-metropolitan and industrial areas. Localities existed in
2400-525: The time of the Eircode's introduction in 2015. Land registration systems, known as Cadastres , helped manage property ownership in Ancient Rome, especially as Rome expanded. The city was divided into 14 regions (regiones) by Emperor Augustus to streamline administration, which became the foundation for locating properties. In most English-speaking countries, the usual method of house numbering
2450-531: The website of the Belgian postal operator ( bpost ). The correct representation of an address is not limited to the correct structure of address components but also relates to the content of addresses and their position on envelopes (see bpost – Lettres & cartes – Envoi – Comment addresser ? (in French)). It is also possible to validate a Belgian postal address on bpost's website and to receive feedback on
2500-616: Was built on the top of Governor's Hill (part of Atheltstane Range) in 1875. Construction of Rockhampton Grammar School commenced in January 1880 and it was officially opened on 1 February 1881. Rockhampton Girls Grammar School opened on 11 March 1892. St Peter's Catholic Primary School was established by the Presentation Sisters and was officially opened on Sunday 28 January 1934 by Archbishop James Duhig . The Rockhampton Flexible Learning School opened in 2015. In
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