Chile Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Nov 27, 2025

Updated: November 27, 2025

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Chile Address Format Guide

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

Chile - Address Format

An address format in Chile contains the following elements:

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

John Smith
Saturnino Epulef 922
4930683 Villarrica
Araucanía
CHILE

Chile Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
C. 7 3789
4260000 Talcahuano
Bío Bío
CHILE

Example 2:

Chile Post Office
Av. Arturo Prat 607
1300000 Taltal
Antofagasta
CHILE

Postal and Country Information for Chile

Country/territory name	Chile
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: CL ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: CHL ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 152
Administrative area count	16
Administration area names and abbreviations	Antofagasta Arica and Parinacota Atacama Aysen Region De Coquimbo De La Araucania Del Bio-Bio Del Libertador B Ohiggins Del Maule De Los Lagos De Los Rios De Magallanes y Antartica Chilena Nuble Santiago Metropolitan Tarapaca Valparaiso	AN AP AT AI CO AR BI LI ML LL LR MA NB RM TA VS
Term to describe postal codes	Código postal
Postal code format	9999999
Population	19 672 329
Total land area	753 928km²

How to Validate Addresses for Chile Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Street column to validate Street names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Region 3 column to validate City names
Region 1 column to validate Regions

Explore our Chile address database.

Our location dataset for Chile

Chile ZIP Codes

Chile uses a “Código postal” system, which is a seven-digit numeric format like 9999999, with no letters or separators. This means it uses only numbers. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Chile has 276,127 postal codes covering 418 regions and 1,573 towns. This format is different from numeric US ZIP codes as US ZIP codes are five digits long compared to Chile’s seven-digit format.

Chile ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Chile 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.

Chile Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Chile’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.