GRC Data Intelligence
Expertise in Global Data
© GRC Database Information 2013
Other addressing issues
Compiled by Graham Rhind. If you have any comments,
corrections or suggestions for additions, please send a message.
General
Global Gazetteer (in English, from Falling Rain Genomics,
Inc.) - This is a directory of over 2 million of the World's cities
and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each
town. A tab separated list is available for each country
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic names (in English) - Type in
the name of a settlement and get information such as history,
location, administrative area, type of place and so on
Geographic Names Information System (in English) -
databases (2 million records) of geographic features and
place names for the United States, and for other places on
the globe
Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server (in English) -
search database of more than 4 million place- and feature-
names. Returns information including latitude and longitude
Euradin - (in English) - European Address Infrastructure
project
European Address Forum - (in English)
International Mailing Address Formats - (in English) - from
Bitboost. A pretty decent collection of information on
international address formats. They're not very
complimentary about this site, but I'm a great defender of free
speech!
International Address Formats - (in English) - "Frank's
compulsive guide to postal addresses". A hefty collection of
address format information, US-Centric, and mostly (but not
always) correct
International Address Formats - (in English) - formats for
about 20 countries
International Address Formats and forms of address - (in
English) - some limited address format and form of address
information
International Address Formats - (in English) - formats for
about 30 countries, unfortunately many incorrect. Apparently
a mirror for the site above
International Address Formats - (in English, from
AddressDoctor) - address formats for most countries
Address formats for about 35 countries - (In English, from
ZipcodeWorld) - data taken from the UPU website
Address formats for about 35 countries - (In English, from
Microsoft)
List of world country names in English - (in French)
List of world country names in Spanish - (in French)
List of world country names in French - (in French)
List of world country names, with capitals, currencies, ISO
code etc. - (in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian,
Danish, Greek, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish) - from
the European Union
Address Data Quality and Geocoding standards - (in English)
- an Amerocentric essay on this subject
Administrative divisions of countries ("Statoids") - (in English)
- set of links to pages providing information of administrative
divisions in different countries
Administrative divisions of countries - (in English) - United
Nations site, not always accurate, not many countries covered
World Gazetteer (in English) - information about countries:
population, administrative regions, main populated places'
latitudes and longitudes
Data Management Info (in English) - data management
resources and links site
Country information (in English) - country names in various
languages, ISO and FIPS codes and other information
Country codes (in English) - Country ISO 3166 and numeric
codes
Country codes (CountryCodes.org, in English) - Country
Codes, Phone Codes, Dialing Codes, Telephone Codes, ISO
Country Codes
Standards and coding systems
AS 4590 - (in English) - Australia: interchange of client
information
AS/NZS 4819 - (in English) - Australia/New Zealand
standards for rural and urban addressing
AFNOR XP Z10-011 - (in French) - France: specifications for
postal addressing
BS 7666-0 - (in English) - United Kindom: spatial datasets for
geographical referencing. General model for gazetteers and
spatial referencing
ISO/TS 15000-5 - (in English) - Electronic Business
Extensible Markup Language (ebXML)
ISO 19112 - (in English) - Geographic information - spatial
referencing by geographic identifiers
ISO 3166 country codes - (in English) - maintenance agency
website
ISO 3166 country codes - (in English) - a list of English
country names and ISO-3166 two-letter country codes,
available in English and French
ISO 3166-2 countries and their subdivisions - (in English) -
information about this standard
International vehicle identification codes - (in English) - United
Nations listing
United States' State Department - (in English) - Country code
list (FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standard)
United States' State Department - (in English) -
Dependencies code list (FIPS - Federal Information
Processing Standard)
Listing of ISO 3166 and other coding systems - for 239
countries and territories
International Address Standardization - features, technologies
and formats (in English) - outline from a PowerPoint
presentation by Joe Lubenow given 30th January 2002
Markup languages for names and addresses (in English) - a
discussion and list of pointers to markup standards for names
and addresses
GCA/Idealliance Address Data Interchange Specification
(ADIS) (in English)
HR-XML Consortium Cross-Process Objects Schemas (in
English) - Postal address and personal name standard
MEDICI - Mails Electronic Data Interchange and Customs
Integration (previously SAMPLE: Single Administrative
Message for Postal Enterprises) (in English) - electronic
interface standard between postal and customs authorities
OASIS TC Name and Address Standard (xNAL) (in English) -
Postal address and personal name XML standard from the
OASIS Customer Information Quality Technical Committee
SAIF (Standard Relationship Data Interchange Format) (in
English) - developed by Human Inference
SANS 1883-1 - (in English) - South African Address Standard
- data format
SANS 1883-3 - (in English) - South African Address Standard
- guidelines for address allocation and updates
United Kingdom GovTalk Address and Personal Details
Fragment (in English)
UPU S42 & S53 (in English) - Universal Postal Union
International postal address components and templates
Why a Global Address Standard is Critical to Success in
Direct Mail Marketing and Electronic Commerce. Using the
UN/PROLST Version 1.1. (in English) - UN/PROLST White
Paper - Amerocentric
United States Street Address Data Standard Project
(previously Federal Geographic Data Committee Address
Data Content Standard) (in English) - USA standard
United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address
Data Standard (based on the United States Street Address
Data Standard Project, link above) - USA standard
Forms of address
Lugandan (Uganda) Forms of address - (in English and
Lugandan) - a list of Lugandan forms of personal address
U.S. Ecclesiastical forms of address - (in English) - U.S.
Ecclesiastical forms of personal address
British social address - (in English) forms of address for the
British aristocracy
Personal names
Encyclopaedia Brittanica - (in English) - information from the
Encyclopaedia Brittanica pertaining to names and naming
conventions
Surnames - a selected list of references about personal
names - (in English)
Surnames - The origins and meanings of surnames - (in
English) - essay
Dutch names - (in English) - information on Dutch personal
naming history and personal naming conventions
Language Analysis Systems, Inc. - (in English) - company
specialising in name analysis and processing
Country-by-country
Afghanistan (in English) - list of Afghanistan's provinces
Australia (in English) - correct addressing format
Australia (in English) - place name lookup engine
Austria (in English) - Maps and village lists of Burgenland,
with village names in German, Hungarian and Croatian
Belgium - (in English - Angloinfo) - Postal code and address
format information (not entirely accurate)
Belize - (in English) - Hints on correct addressing in Belize
Bhutan - (in English) - Information about Bhutan address
system/formats
Bosnia-Hercegovina (in Bosnian) - information on how to
correctly write the address
Canada - (commercial) - Gazetteer - latitude and longitude of
settlements and geographical features
Canada - Official thoroughfare type abbreviations - Canadian
Post Office page. Scroll down the page to the text "Symbols
Recognized by Canada Post - Street Types" to request this
page
Origins of Canada's Geograhical names (in English)
Canada (in English) - addressing guide, full details on
addressing in Canada
Canada (in French) - addressing guide, full details on
addressing in Canada
Cayman Islands - (in English) - online mail addressing guide
Cayman Islands - (in English) - full mail addressing guide (pdf
format)
Colombia (in Spanish) - address format information
Croatia (in Croatian) - correct address format and other
postage information
Croatia (in English) - correct address format and other
postage information
Cyprus (in English) - correct Cyprus address format, postal
code format and other postal information
Denmark (in Danish) - place name lists in pdf format
Egypt - (in English) - The Postal Museum
Estonia (in English) - place name lists
France (in French) - place name search engine
France - (in English - Angloinfo) - France postal code and
address format information
German place names (in English) - information about
German place names and naming conventions
Germany (in German) - Correct addressing format
Guatemala (in Spanish) - Correct addressing format
Hong Kong (in English) - download (in Adobe Acrobat format)
a complete guide to Hong Kong postal services, including
address formats
Ireland (in English) - find details of post offices in Ireland
Ireland (in English) - Postal address format information
Italy (in Italian) - Correct addressing format
Japan (in English) - correct address format
Japan (in English) - correct address format (old information,
no longer valid)
Japan (in English) - a YouTube video about the Japansese
addressing system
Latvia (in Latvian) - shows correct address format for Latvia
Lithuania (in Lithuanian) - shows correct address format for
Lithuania
Lithuania (in English) - shows correct address format for
Lithuania
Luxembourg (in French) - correct addressing guide
Luxembourg (in English) - Lists of Luxembourg place names
in French, Luxembourgeois and German
Macedonia - (in English) - (from Macedonia Post) - Address
format information
Macedonia - (in Macedonian) - (from Macedonia Post) -
Address format information
Macedonia - (in Albanian) - (from Macedonia Post) - Address
format information
Malaysia (in English) - shows, amongst other things, correct
address formats for Malaysia. Choose "Mail Services",
"General Mailing Solutions","Letter"
Malaysia (in English) - download post guide book
Moldova (in Romanian) - shows correct address format for
Moldova
Morocco (in French) - correct addressing guide. From the
"Rubriques du site Barid-al-maghrib" drop down, choose
"Code Postal". Also information under "Info Pratiques" and
then "Comment présenter une adresse?"
The Netherlands - (in Dutch) - a database of Dutch places
with municipality, province, telephone area code, postcode
range and geographical co-ordinates. Press link to nl.zip or
nl.dbf to download. The field names in the resulting database
file are also in Dutch
The Netherlands - (in English - Angloinfo) - Postal code and
address format information
New Caledonia - (in French) - correct addressing format -
choose "Le Code Postal" and then "Presentation de
l'Adresse"
New Zealand - (in English) - searchable database of New
Zealand place- and street names
New Zealand - (in English) - Information on the correct
addressing for New Zealand
Norway - (in Norwegian) - Information on the correct
addressing for Norway
Portugal - (in English) - addressing guidelines from CTT
Puerto Rico - (in English) - (from the USPS) - Spanish words
and their abbreviations found in Puerto Rican addresses
Puerto Rico - (in English) - (from the USPS) - Puerto Rican
address formats and rules - general information
Puerto Rico - (in English) - (from the USPS) - Spanish
directionals found in addresses
Russia - (in English) - St Petersburg street naming and
addressing conventions explained
Slovenia (in Slovenian) - correct addressing format
Spain - (in English, Angloinfo) - Postal code and address
format information for Spain
Taiwan (in English) - correct addressing format. Choose “Hot
Info” then “Address Writing”
Turkey (in Turkish) - Choose "PTT Interactif" then "Posta
Kodu" then "Dogru Adres Yazimi" for an explanation of correct
address formatting
Ukraine - (in English) - Tips on the address format to use
Ukraine - (in Ukrainian) - Tips on the address format to use
United Kingdom - (in English) - Geoplace - maintenance
agency for the National Address Gazetteer Database and the
National Street Gazetteer for England and Wales
United States - Official Abbreviations - States
United States - (in English, from Infoplease.com) - state
names and (postal) abbreviations
United States - Official Abbreviations - Street Suffixes
United States - Official Abbreviations - Secondary Unit
Designators
United States - (in English), from Melissa Data - place
name/geographical feature name lookup
United States - (in English) - enter a full United States' postal
address and this will return the address correctly formatted,
including bar code
United States - (in English) - Place name lists
United States Virgin Islands - (in English) - (from the USPS) -
correct addressing formats explained
Global Gazetteer (in English, from Falling Rain Genomics,
Inc.) - This is a directory of over 2 million of the World's cities
and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each
town. A tab separated list is available for each country
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic names (in English) - Type in
the name of a settlement and get information such as history,
location, administrative area, type of place and so on
Geographic Names Information System (in English) -
databases (2 million records) of geographic features and
place names for the United States, and for other places on
the globe
Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server (in English) -
search database of more than 4 million place- and feature-
names. Returns information including latitude and longitude
Euradin - (in English) - European Address Infrastructure
project
European Address Forum - (in English)
International Mailing Address Formats - (in English) - from
Bitboost. A pretty decent collection of information on
international address formats. They're not very
complimentary about this site, but I'm a great defender of free
speech!
International Address Formats - (in English) - "Frank's
compulsive guide to postal addresses". A hefty collection of
address format information, US-Centric, and mostly (but not
always) correct
International Address Formats - (in English) - formats for
about 20 countries
International Address Formats and forms of address - (in
English) - some limited address format and form of address
information
International Address Formats - (in English) - formats for
about 30 countries, unfortunately many incorrect. Apparently
a mirror for the site above
International Address Formats - (in English, from
AddressDoctor) - address formats for most countries
Address formats for about 35 countries - (In English, from
ZipcodeWorld) - data taken from the UPU website
Address formats for about 35 countries - (In English, from
Microsoft)
List of world country names in English - (in French)
List of world country names in Spanish - (in French)
List of world country names in French - (in French)
List of world country names, with capitals, currencies, ISO
code etc. - (in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian,
Danish, Greek, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish) - from
the European Union
Address Data Quality and Geocoding standards - (in English)
- an Amerocentric essay on this subject
Administrative divisions of countries ("Statoids") - (in English)
- set of links to pages providing information of administrative
divisions in different countries
Administrative divisions of countries - (in English) - United
Nations site, not always accurate, not many countries covered
World Gazetteer (in English) - information about countries:
population, administrative regions, main populated places'
latitudes and longitudes
Data Management Info (in English) - data management
resources and links site
Country information (in English) - country names in various
languages, ISO and FIPS codes and other information
Country codes (in English) - Country ISO 3166 and numeric
codes
Country codes (CountryCodes.org, in English) - Country
Codes, Phone Codes, Dialing Codes, Telephone Codes, ISO
Country Codes
Standards and coding systems
AS 4590 - (in English) - Australia: interchange of client
information
AS/NZS 4819 - (in English) - Australia/New Zealand
standards for rural and urban addressing
AFNOR XP Z10-011 - (in French) - France: specifications for
postal addressing
BS 7666-0 - (in English) - United Kindom: spatial datasets for
geographical referencing. General model for gazetteers and
spatial referencing
ISO/TS 15000-5 - (in English) - Electronic Business
Extensible Markup Language (ebXML)
ISO 19112 - (in English) - Geographic information - spatial
referencing by geographic identifiers
ISO 3166 country codes - (in English) - maintenance agency
website
ISO 3166 country codes - (in English) - a list of English
country names and ISO-3166 two-letter country codes,
available in English and French
ISO 3166-2 countries and their subdivisions - (in English) -
information about this standard
International vehicle identification codes - (in English) - United
Nations listing
United States' State Department - (in English) - Country code
list (FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standard)
United States' State Department - (in English) -
Dependencies code list (FIPS - Federal Information
Processing Standard)
Listing of ISO 3166 and other coding systems - for 239
countries and territories
International Address Standardization - features, technologies
and formats (in English) - outline from a PowerPoint
presentation by Joe Lubenow given 30th January 2002
Markup languages for names and addresses (in English) - a
discussion and list of pointers to markup standards for names
and addresses
GCA/Idealliance Address Data Interchange Specification
(ADIS) (in English)
HR-XML Consortium Cross-Process Objects Schemas (in
English) - Postal address and personal name standard
MEDICI - Mails Electronic Data Interchange and Customs
Integration (previously SAMPLE: Single Administrative
Message for Postal Enterprises) (in English) - electronic
interface standard between postal and customs authorities
OASIS TC Name and Address Standard (xNAL) (in English) -
Postal address and personal name XML standard from the
OASIS Customer Information Quality Technical Committee
SAIF (Standard Relationship Data Interchange Format) (in
English) - developed by Human Inference
SANS 1883-1 - (in English) - South African Address Standard
- data format
SANS 1883-3 - (in English) - South African Address Standard
- guidelines for address allocation and updates
United Kingdom GovTalk Address and Personal Details
Fragment (in English)
UPU S42 & S53 (in English) - Universal Postal Union
International postal address components and templates
Why a Global Address Standard is Critical to Success in
Direct Mail Marketing and Electronic Commerce. Using the
UN/PROLST Version 1.1. (in English) - UN/PROLST White
Paper - Amerocentric
United States Street Address Data Standard Project
(previously Federal Geographic Data Committee Address
Data Content Standard) (in English) - USA standard
United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address
Data Standard (based on the United States Street Address
Data Standard Project, link above) - USA standard
Forms of address
Lugandan (Uganda) Forms of address - (in English and
Lugandan) - a list of Lugandan forms of personal address
U.S. Ecclesiastical forms of address - (in English) - U.S.
Ecclesiastical forms of personal address
British social address - (in English) forms of address for the
British aristocracy
Personal names
Encyclopaedia Brittanica - (in English) - information from the
Encyclopaedia Brittanica pertaining to names and naming
conventions
Surnames - a selected list of references about personal
names - (in English)
Surnames - The origins and meanings of surnames - (in
English) - essay
Dutch names - (in English) - information on Dutch personal
naming history and personal naming conventions
Language Analysis Systems, Inc. - (in English) - company
specialising in name analysis and processing
Country-by-country
Afghanistan (in English) - list of Afghanistan's provinces
Australia (in English) - correct addressing format
Australia (in English) - place name lookup engine
Austria (in English) - Maps and village lists of Burgenland,
with village names in German, Hungarian and Croatian
Belgium - (in English - Angloinfo) - Postal code and address
format information (not entirely accurate)
Belize - (in English) - Hints on correct addressing in Belize
Bhutan - (in English) - Information about Bhutan address
system/formats
Bosnia-Hercegovina (in Bosnian) - information on how to
correctly write the address
Canada - (commercial) - Gazetteer - latitude and longitude of
settlements and geographical features
Canada - Official thoroughfare type abbreviations - Canadian
Post Office page. Scroll down the page to the text "Symbols
Recognized by Canada Post - Street Types" to request this
page
Origins of Canada's Geograhical names (in English)
Canada (in English) - addressing guide, full details on
addressing in Canada
Canada (in French) - addressing guide, full details on
addressing in Canada
Cayman Islands - (in English) - online mail addressing guide
Cayman Islands - (in English) - full mail addressing guide (pdf
format)
Colombia (in Spanish) - address format information
Croatia (in Croatian) - correct address format and other
postage information
Croatia (in English) - correct address format and other
postage information
Cyprus (in English) - correct Cyprus address format, postal
code format and other postal information
Denmark (in Danish) - place name lists in pdf format
Egypt - (in English) - The Postal Museum
Estonia (in English) - place name lists
France (in French) - place name search engine
France - (in English - Angloinfo) - France postal code and
address format information
German place names (in English) - information about
German place names and naming conventions
Germany (in German) - Correct addressing format
Guatemala (in Spanish) - Correct addressing format
Hong Kong (in English) - download (in Adobe Acrobat format)
a complete guide to Hong Kong postal services, including
address formats
Ireland (in English) - find details of post offices in Ireland
Ireland (in English) - Postal address format information
Italy (in Italian) - Correct addressing format
Japan (in English) - correct address format
Japan (in English) - correct address format (old information,
no longer valid)
Japan (in English) - a YouTube video about the Japansese
addressing system
Latvia (in Latvian) - shows correct address format for Latvia
Lithuania (in Lithuanian) - shows correct address format for
Lithuania
Lithuania (in English) - shows correct address format for
Lithuania
Luxembourg (in French) - correct addressing guide
Luxembourg (in English) - Lists of Luxembourg place names
in French, Luxembourgeois and German
Macedonia - (in English) - (from Macedonia Post) - Address
format information
Macedonia - (in Macedonian) - (from Macedonia Post) -
Address format information
Macedonia - (in Albanian) - (from Macedonia Post) - Address
format information
Malaysia (in English) - shows, amongst other things, correct
address formats for Malaysia. Choose "Mail Services",
"General Mailing Solutions","Letter"
Malaysia (in English) - download post guide book
Moldova (in Romanian) - shows correct address format for
Moldova
Morocco (in French) - correct addressing guide. From the
"Rubriques du site Barid-al-maghrib" drop down, choose
"Code Postal". Also information under "Info Pratiques" and
then "Comment présenter une adresse?"
The Netherlands - (in Dutch) - a database of Dutch places
with municipality, province, telephone area code, postcode
range and geographical co-ordinates. Press link to nl.zip or
nl.dbf to download. The field names in the resulting database
file are also in Dutch
The Netherlands - (in English - Angloinfo) - Postal code and
address format information
New Caledonia - (in French) - correct addressing format -
choose "Le Code Postal" and then "Presentation de
l'Adresse"
New Zealand - (in English) - searchable database of New
Zealand place- and street names
New Zealand - (in English) - Information on the correct
addressing for New Zealand
Norway - (in Norwegian) - Information on the correct
addressing for Norway
Portugal - (in English) - addressing guidelines from CTT
Puerto Rico - (in English) - (from the USPS) - Spanish words
and their abbreviations found in Puerto Rican addresses
Puerto Rico - (in English) - (from the USPS) - Puerto Rican
address formats and rules - general information
Puerto Rico - (in English) - (from the USPS) - Spanish
directionals found in addresses
Russia - (in English) - St Petersburg street naming and
addressing conventions explained
Slovenia (in Slovenian) - correct addressing format
Spain - (in English, Angloinfo) - Postal code and address
format information for Spain
Taiwan (in English) - correct addressing format. Choose “Hot
Info” then “Address Writing”
Turkey (in Turkish) - Choose "PTT Interactif" then "Posta
Kodu" then "Dogru Adres Yazimi" for an explanation of correct
address formatting
Ukraine - (in English) - Tips on the address format to use
Ukraine - (in Ukrainian) - Tips on the address format to use
United Kingdom - (in English) - Geoplace - maintenance
agency for the National Address Gazetteer Database and the
National Street Gazetteer for England and Wales
United States - Official Abbreviations - States
United States - (in English, from Infoplease.com) - state
names and (postal) abbreviations
United States - Official Abbreviations - Street Suffixes
United States - Official Abbreviations - Secondary Unit
Designators
United States - (in English), from Melissa Data - place
name/geographical feature name lookup
United States - (in English) - enter a full United States' postal
address and this will return the address correctly formatted,
including bar code
United States - (in English) - Place name lists
United States Virgin Islands - (in English) - (from the USPS) -
correct addressing formats explained
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