Bangladesh Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Bangladesh Address Format Guide

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

Bangladesh - Address Format

An address format in Bangladesh contains the following elements:

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

John Smith
26 Rd 10/A
Dhaka 1205
BANGLADESH

Bangladesh Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Shiuly Plot No. 1105/B
Dhaka 1207
BANGLADESH

Example 2:

Bangladesh Post Office
111 Gulshan Avenue
Gulshan
Dhaka 1212
BANGLADESH

Postal and Country Information for Bangladesh

Country/territory name	Bangladesh
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: BD ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: BGD ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 50
Administrative area count	8
Administration area names and abbreviations	Barisal Chattogram Dhaka Khulna Mymensingh Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet	A B C D H E F G
Term to describe postal codes	Postal code
Postal code format	9999
Population	176 079 788
Total land area	139 631km²

How to Validate Addresses for Bangladesh Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Locality column to validate Towns
Region 2 to validates Cities
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes

Explore our Bangladesh address database.

Our location dataset for Bangladesh

Bangladesh ZIP Codes

Bangladesh uses a “Postal code” system, which is a four-digit numeric format, like 9999, with no letters or separators. This means it uses only numbers, unlike US ZIP codes which are also numeric. However, US ZIP codes are five digits long compared to Bangladesh’s four. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Bangladesh has 1,361 postal codes covering 570 regions and 2,489 towns.

Bangladesh ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Bangladesh 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.

Bangladesh Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Bangladesh’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.