Worldwide Address Database

A street address database organizes street addresses, localities, ZIP codes, administrative divisions, and structured address data into a unified source. A National Address Database—such as those created by certain governments—is maintained by public agencies to support national services, transportation safety, and infrastructure planning.

GeoPostcodes does not provide the USDOT National Address Database. Instead, our global dataset is built using curated, authoritative sources and includes street-level and address-level detail for international use cases. You can explore the full structure on our Streets Database product page.

Yes. The address database includes multilingual fields so users can work with street addresses in the languages defined by local authorities. While a national address database may focus on a single official language, our global solution supports regions with multiple scripts and language variants.

See our multilingual specifications on the Streets Database page.

Some regions—including rural areas, territories with tribal governance, or countries without formal address systems—don’t use standardized street addressing. In these cases, the GeoPostcodes address database relies on alternative references such as locality centroids, administrative divisions, or postal address proxies. This ensures organizations can still work with structured, normalized data even when no government-issued system exists.

For more on how we support global administrative structures, see our Administrative Boundaries product.

Organizations use an address database to verify up-to-date street addresses, standardize incoming data, and support routing, geocoding, planning, and operational workflows. Public-sector agencies often rely on national address databases for infrastructure planning, school district analysis, and transportation safety.

GeoPostcodes supports both commercial and government use cases by providing global address coverage that integrates smoothly with open datasets. Learn how structured address data enhances geographic analysis in Zip Code Analysis.

A complete address database connects street addresses to postal addresses, administrative divisions, and post-office regions. This improves mail routing, reduces delivery errors, and ensures consistent addressing across regions. While some countries rely on official national address databases, our global dataset ensures standardized formatting for international delivery workflows.

To see how postal regions and administrative hierarchies are structured in our data, explore the Postal Codes product page.

Yes. USPS maintains a National Address Database (NAD) containing location information to support mail delivery and address validation. This dataset is produced by the U.S. Government. While it is not the same as GeoPostcodes’ global address database, many users compare the two when evaluating coverage, format consistency, and international applicability.

For differences in global postal systems, see ZIP Code vs Postcode: Key Differences.