Argentina Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Argentina Address Format Guide

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the standard address format used in Argentina. Whether you’re shipping packages, sending mail, or validating addresses for your business, understanding the proper address structure is essential for successful deliveries. We’ll cover the basic elements, provide examples, and explain how GeoPostcodes can help with address validation.

Argentina - Address Format

An address format in Argentina contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House/Building Number
Postal Code (8 digits) and City
Country – ARGENTINA (in all caps)

John Smith
Av. Duarte Quirós 2436
X5002AOV Córdoba
ARGENTINA

Argentina Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Virrey Liniers 270
C1174ACF Buenos Aires
ARGENTINA

Example 2:

Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación
Sarmiento 151
C1041AAE Buenos Aires
ARGENTINA

Postal and Country Information for Argentina

Country/territory name	Argentina
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: AR ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: ARG ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 32
Administrative area count	24
Administration area names and abbreviations	Capital Federal Buenos Aires Catamarca Chaco Chubut Cordoba Corrientes Entre Rios Formosa Jujuy La Pampa La Rioja Mendoza Misiones Neuquen Rio Negro Salta San Juan San Luis Santa Cruz Santa Fe Santiago del Estero Tierra del Fuego Tucuman	C B K H U X W E P Y L F M N Q R A J D Z S G V T
Term to describe postal codes	CPA
Postal code format	A9999 AAA
Population	41 624 597
Total land area	2 787 847km²

How to Validate Addresses for Argentina Using GeoPostcodes Database

GeoPostcodes offers comprehensive address validation database to validate Argentina addresses. Our database ensures addresses follow the correct format for Argentina, reducing delivery errors and improving efficiency.

Use GeoPostcodes:

Address Database to validate Street Names, Postal Codes and Cities in Argentina
Postal Database if you only need to validate Postal Codes and Cities in Argentina
Population Database if you would like to do urban/rural mapping or compute how many people live in Argentina segmented by postal code, city or administrative divisions

You can leverage GeoPostcodes data to validate addresses in Argentina using:

Street column to validate Street names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Locality column to validate City names

Explore our Argentina address database.

Our location dataset for Argentina

Argentina ZIP Codes

Argentina uses a “CPA” system, which is an eight-character alphanumeric format, like A9999 AAA, featuring a letter followed by four digits, a space, and three letters. This system is alphanumeric, unlike the purely numeric US ZIP codes. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Argentina has 2,151,660 postal codes covering 601 regions and 22,003 towns.

Argentina ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Argentina administrative landscape often follows inconsistent regional models and irregular public sources, making it difficult to maintain reliable boundaries. Our standardized postal and administrative boundary data resolves these gaps to ensure complete, coherent geographic coverage.

Argentina Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Argentina’s address structure, ensuring consistent, accurate, and globally aligned formatting across your systems. The dataset captures the official address elements required by the national postal operator and maps them into our unified global schema.