Morocco Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Updated: November 27, 2025
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Morocco Address Format Guide

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

Morocco - Address Format

An address format in Morocco 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) and City Name
  5. Country – MOROCCO (in all caps)

John Smith
B 149
45000 Ouarzazate
MOROCCO

Morocco Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Bd Hassan II 19
80000 Agadir
MOROCCO

Example 2:

Morocco Post Office
Ave Mohammed V 52
90000 Tangier
MOROCCO

Postal and Country Information for Morocco

Country/territory name Morocco
ISO codes ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: MA
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: MAR
ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 504
Administrative area count 12
Administration area names and abbreviations
  • Beni Mellal-Khenifra
  • Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab
  • Draa-Tafilalet
  • Fes-Meknes
  • Greater Casablanca
  • Guelmim-Oued Noun
  • Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra
  • L’Oriental
  • Marrakech-Safi
  • Rabat-Sale-Kenitra
  • Souss-Massa
  • Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
  • 5
  • 12
  • 8
  • 3
  • 6
  • 10
  • 11
  • 2
  • 7
  • 4
  • 9
  • 1
Term to describe postal codes Code postal
Postal code format 99999
Population 39 139 045
Total land area 682 492km²

How to Validate Addresses for Morocco Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

  • Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
  • Region 4 column to validate City names

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Morocco ZIP Codes

Morocco uses a “Code postal” system, which is a five-digit numeric format like 99999, with no letters or separators. This format is similar to US ZIP codes, which are also five digits and purely numeric. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Morocco has 2,862 postal codes covering 1,797 regions and 1,655 towns.

Morocco ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Morocco 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.

Morocco Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Morocco’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.

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