Palestine Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

May 29, 2026

Updated: May 29, 2026

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Palestine Address Format Guide

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

Palestine - Address Format

An address format in Palestine 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 – PALESTINE (in all caps)

John Smith
Old shalala street 21, Bab Al_zawiye
Hebron P720
PALESTINE

Palestine Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Nahda St 37
Ramallah P606
PALESTINE

Example 2:

Palestine Post Office
Al- Muntazah St. 13
Ramallah P606
PALESTINE

Postal and Country Information for Palestine

Country/territory name	Palestine
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: PS ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: PSE ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 275
Administrative area count	2
Administration area names and abbreviations	Gaza West Bank	GZZ WBK
Term to describe postal codes	Postcode
Postal code format	P999 9999
Population	5 160 502
Total land area	6 097km²

How to Validate Addresses for Palestine Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

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

*Please note that in Palestine, we offer only the first 4 digits.

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Our location dataset for Palestine

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

Palestine ZIP Codes

Palestine uses a “Postcode” system, with the local term for ‘postal code’ being Postcode. The postal code format is P999 9999, which is an alphanumeric format consisting of a letter followed by three digits, a space, and four more digits. This format is different from numeric US ZIP codes as Palestine’s postal codes include letters and have eight characters, whereas US ZIP codes are five digits long and purely numeric. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Palestine has 451 postal codes covering 18 regions and 899 towns.

Palestine ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Palestine 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.

Palestine Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Palestine’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.