Malta Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Nov 27, 2025

Updated: November 27, 2025

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Malta Address Format Guide

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

Malta - Address Format

An address format in Malta contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House number and Street name
City Name
Postal Code (7 alphanumeric digits)
Country – MALTA (in all caps)

Triq il-Gibjun
Ħ’Attard
ATD 2081
MALTA

Malta Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Triq Il-Kungress Ewkaristiku
Il-Mosta
MST 9032
MALTA

Example 2:

Malta Post Office
21 Pjazza Meme Scicluna
Il-Gżira
GZR 1120
MALTA

Postal and Country Information for Malta

Country/territory name	Malta
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: MT ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: MLT ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 470
Administrative area count	68
Term to describe postal codes	Postal code
Postal code format	AAA 9999
Population	531 924
Total land area	316km²

How to Validate Addresses for Malta Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Street column to validate Street names
Region 2 column to validate City names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes

Explore our Malta address database.

Our location dataset for Malta

Malta ZIP Codes

Malta uses a “Postal code” system, which is an alphanumeric format like AAA 9999, consisting of seven characters with three letters followed by a space and four numbers. This means it uses both letters and numbers, unlike numeric US ZIP codes which are five digits long and purely numeric. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Malta has 27,426 postal codes covering 74 regions and 114 towns. The local term for ‘postal code’ in Malta is Postal code.

Malta ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Malta 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.

Malta Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Malta’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.