India Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Dec 15, 2025

Updated: December 15, 2025

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India Address Format Guide

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

India - Address Format

An address format in India contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House Number, Street Name and Extra Information (e.g., Village Name)
Locality
City Name and Postal Code (6 Digits)
State Name
Country – INDIA (in all caps)

John Smith
5/2 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Rd, Siddharath Nagar Vakola
Santacruz
Mumbai 400055
Maharashtra
INDIA

India Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
81 Mundhwa Rd Koregaon Park Annexe
Mundhwa
Pune 411036
Maharashtra
INDIA

Example 2:

India Post Office
23 Athani Ln
Kaithamukku
Thiruvananthapuram 695024
Kerala
INDIA

Postal and Country Information for India

Country/territory name	India
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: IN ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: IND ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 356
Administrative area count	36
Administration area names and abbreviations	Delhi Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Telangana Tripura Uttarakhand Uttar Pradesh West Bengal Andaman and Nicobar Islands Chandigarh Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Jammu and Kashmir Ladakh Lakshadweep Puducherry	DL AP AR AS BR CG GA GJ HR HP JH KA KL MP MH MN ML MZ NL OD PB RJ SK TN TS TR UK UP WB AN CH DH JK LA LD PY
Term to describe postal codes	PIN code
Postal code format	999999
Population	1 454 337 888
Total land area	3 148 820km²

How to Validate Addresses for India Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Locality column to validate Localities
Region 3* column to validate City names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Region 1 column to validate States

*Delhi is located in Region 1.

Explore our India address database.

Our location dataset for India

India ZIP Codes

India uses a “PIN code” system, which is a six-digit numeric format, like 999999, with no letters or separators. This means it uses only numbers, unlike US ZIP codes, which are also numeric but consist of five digits. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, India has 19,959 postal codes covering 7,395 regions and 712,068 towns.

India ZIP & Administrative boundaries

India 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.

India Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for India’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.