Italy Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Updated: July 9, 2025
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Italy Address Format Guide

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

Italy - Address Format

An address format in Italy contains the following elements:

  1. Recipient’s name
  2. Business or department name (if applicable)
  3. Street name and House number
  4. Postal Code (5 digits), City and Province Code
  5. Country – ITALY (in all caps)

John Smith
Via dei Tessitori di Seta 65
80144 Napoli NA
ITALY

Italy Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Via Savona 3
56123 Pisa PI
ITALY

Example 2:

Italy Post Office
Via Amintore Fanfani 15
52036 Pieve Santo Stefano AR
ITALY

Postal and Country Information for Italy

Country/territory name Italy
ISO codes ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: IT
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: ITA
ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 380
Administrative area count 20
Administration area names and abbreviations
  • Abruzzo
  • Apulia
  • Basilicata
  • Calabria
  • Campania
  • Emilia-Romagna
  • Lazio
  • Liguria
  • Lombardy
  • Molise
  • Piedmont
  • The Marches
  • Tuscany
  • Umbria
  • Veneto
  • Aosta Valley
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  • Sardinia
  • Sicily
  • Trentino-South Tyrol
  • 65
  • 75
  • 77
  • 78
  • 72
  • 45
  • 62
  • 42
  • 25
  • 67
  • 21
  • 57
  • 52
  • 55
  • 34
  • 23
  • 36
  • 88
  • 82
  • 32
Term to describe postal codes CAP
Postal code format 99999
Population 58 474 485
Total land area 301 396km²

How to Validate Addresses for Italy Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

  • Street column to validate Street names
  • Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
  • Region 3 column to validate City names
  • ISO2 column to validate Province codes