Belgium Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Belgium Address Format Guide

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

Belgium - Address Format

An address format in Belgium contains the following elements:

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

John Smith
Quellinstraat 40
2018 ANTWERPEN
BELGIUM

Belgium Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Dokter Lauwersstraat 10
8500 KORTRIJK
BELGIUM

Example 2:

BPOST Siège Central
Bd Anspach 1
1000 BRUXELLES
BELGIUM

Postal and Country Information for Belgium

Country/territory name	Belgium
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: BE ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: BEL ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 56
Administrative area count	3
Administration area names and abbreviations	Brussels Capital Flemish Region Walloon Region	BRU VLG WAL
Term to describe postal codes	Code postal
Postal code format	9999
Population	11 128 728
Total land area	30 653km²

How to Validate Addresses for Belgium Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Street column to validate Street names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Region 4 column to validate City names

Explore our Belgium address database.

Our location dataset for Belgium

Belgium ZIP Codes

Belgium uses a “Code postal” 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 Belgium’s four. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Belgium has 1,189 postal codes covering 621 regions and 3,086 towns.

Belgium ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Belgium 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.

Belgium Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Belgium’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.