Geography Structures for Mexico
You use geography information for address entry and geography-based business processes. Jurisdiction codes help identify your state, city, postal code and so on.
Use them for:
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Address validation
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Tax validation
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Geography-based business processes
A geography structure is a hierarchical grouping of geography types for a country. You can use the geography structure to relate geography types and define geography types.
Relate Geography Types
You can determine how a country's geographies are related by creating the hierarchy of the geography types in the geography structure. When you define the country's structure, the geography type Country is implicitly at the highest level of the geography structure with the level as 1. The subsequent geography types that you add after country are numbered in sequence.
You must add a geography type as a level in the country structure before you can define a geography for that geography type. Such as, before defining the state of Mexico, the State geography type must be added to the Mexico country structure. To quickly create country structure, you can copy a structure from another country and modify the geography types for the country.
To create the geography structure, you use the master reference geography types. Each geography type is added at a lower level to the current lowest level.
You can use a geography type that you create within the country structure for other country structures as well.
Define Geography Types
You can use any of the master reference geography types to create your geography structure. If required, you can create a geography type, before adding it to the country structure. Each geography type is added at a lower level to the current lowest level.
Oracle recommends that you use these geography types to create your geography structure:
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Level |
Geography Type |
Example |
|---|---|---|
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1. |
State |
MEX |
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2. |
Municipality |
Villa Victoria |
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3. |
Locality |
Villa Victoria |
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4. |
Postal Code |
50960 |