Bahrain Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Bahrain Address Format Guide

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the standard address format used in Bahrain. 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.

Bahrain - Address Format

An address format in Bahrain contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House number and Street name
City Name and Postal Code (3 digits)
Country – BAHRAIN (in all caps)

John Smith
Building No 1381, Road 5339
Budaiya 553
BAHRAIN

Bahrain Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Building No 174, 1213 Riffa Street
Al Riffah 912
BAHRAIN

Example 2:

Bahrain Post Office
Building No 138, Government Avenue
Manama 315
BAHRAIN

Postal and Country Information for Bahrain

Country/territory name	Bahrain
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: BH ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: BHR ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 48
Administrative area count	4
Administration area names and abbreviations	Capital Muharraq Northern Southern	13 15 17 14
Term to describe postal codes	Block
Postal code format	[9]999
Population	1 503 485
Total land area	790km²

How to Validate Addresses for Bahrain Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

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

Explore our Bahrain address database.

Our location dataset for Bahrain

Bahrain ZIP Codes

Bahrain uses a “Block” system for its postal codes, which are in a numeric format like [9]999. This means they are purely numeric. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Bahrain has 482 postal codes, covering 4 regions and 171 towns. In comparison to US ZIP codes, Bahrain’s postal codes are also numeric, but they are generally four digits long, whereas US ZIP codes are five digits.

Bahrain ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Bahrain 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.

Bahrain Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Bahrain’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.