Cuba Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Feb 11, 2026

Updated: February 11, 2026

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Cuba Address Format Guide

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

Cuba - Address Format

An address format in Cuba contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House Number and Street Name
City Name and Postal Code (5 digits)
Country – CUBA (in all caps)

John Smith
66 Avellaneda
Camagüey 70100
CUBA

Cuba Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
1 Leoncio Vidal
Santa Clara 50100
CUBA

Example 2:

Cuba Post Office
106 San Juan de Dios
La Habana 10100
CUBA

Postal and Country Information for Cuba

Country/territory name	Cuba
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: CU ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: CUB ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 192
Administrative area count	16
Administration area names and abbreviations	Artemisa Camaguey Ciego de Avila Cienfuegos Granma Guantanamo Holguin La Habana Las Tunas Matanzas Mayabeque Pinar del Rio Sancti Spiritus Santiago de Cuba Villa Clara Isla de la Juventud	15 9 8 6 12 14 11 3 10 4 16 1 7 13 5 99
Term to describe postal codes	Código postal
Postal code format	99999
Population	11 132 953
Total land area	110 555km²

How to Validate Addresses for Cuba Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

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

Explore our Cuba address database.

Our location dataset for Cuba

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

Cuba ZIP Codes

Cuba uses a “Código 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, Cuba has 710 postal codes covering 184 regions and 3,639 towns.

Cuba ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Cuba 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.

Cuba Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Cuba’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.