Albania Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Apr 3, 2026

Updated: April 3, 2026

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Albania Address Format Guide

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

Albania - Address Format

An address format in Albania contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street Name and House Number
City Name and Postal Code (4 digits)
Country – ALBANIA (in all caps)

John Smith
Rruga Hafiz Podgorica 156
Durrës 2001
ALBANIA

Albania Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Sheshi 14 Dhjetori
Elbasan 3001
ALBANIA

Example 2:

Albania Post Office
Rruga 5 Maji
Tiranë 1001
ALBANIA

Postal and Country Information for Albania

Country/territory name	Albania
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: AL ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: ALB ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 8
Administrative area count	12
Administration area names and abbreviations	Berat Diber Durres Elbasan Fier Gjirokaste Korce Kukes Lezhe Shkoder Tirana Vlore	1 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12
Term to describe postal codes	Kodi Postar
Postal code format	9999
Population	2 818 602
Total land area	28 657km²

How to Validate Addresses for Albania Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Locality column to validate City names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes

Explore our Albania address database.

Our location dataset for Albania

Explore our comprehensive collection of Albania ZIP code and administrative data products, designed to meet all your mapping and location intelligence needs.

Albania ZIP Codes

Albania uses a “Kodi Postar” system, which is a four-digit numeric format, like 9999, with no letters or separators. This is similar to US ZIP codes, which are also numeric, but US ZIP codes are five digits long compared to Albania’s four. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Albania has 533 postal codes covering 447 regions and 3,094 towns.

Albania ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Albania 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.

Albania Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Albania’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.