Belarus Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Dec 8, 2025

Updated: December 8, 2025

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Belarus Address Format Guide

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

Belarus - Address Format

An address format in Belarus contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House number
Postal Code (6 digits) and City Name
Administrative Region
Country – BELARUS (in all caps)

John Smith
Vulica Uryckaha 33
213826 Bobruisk
Mogilev
BELARUS

Belarus Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
St. Centralnaya 17B
202155 Soligorsk
Minsk
BELARUS

Example 2:

Belarus Post Office
Ulitsa Promyshlennaya 1
225411 Baranovichi
Brest
BELARUS

Postal and Country Information for Belarus

Country/territory name	Belarus
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: BY ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: BLR ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 112
Administrative area count	7
Administration area names and abbreviations	Minsk City Brest Gomel Grodno Minsk Mogilev Vitebsk	HM BR HO HR MI MA VI
Term to describe postal codes	Паштовы індэкс
Postal code format	299999
Population	9 416 369
Total land area	207 612km²

How to Validate Addresses for Belarus Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Street column to validate Street names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Locality column to validate City names
Region 1 column to validate Administrative Regions

Explore our Belarus address database.

Our location dataset for Belarus

Belarus ZIP Codes

Belarus uses a “Паштовы індэкс” system. The postal code format is 299999, which is a six-digit numeric format with no letters or separators. This means it uses only numbers. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Belarus has 3,808 postal codes covering 1,791 regions and 23,278 towns. This format is similar to numeric US ZIP codes as both are numeric, but US ZIP codes are five digits long compared to Belarus’s six.

Belarus ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Belarus 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.

Belarus Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Belarus’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.