Bolivia Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Nov 27, 2025

Updated: November 27, 2025

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Bolivia Address Format Guide

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

Bolivia - Address Format

An address format in Bolivia contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street Name and House Number
City Name
Country – BOLIVIA (in all caps)

John Smith
Tres 192
El Alto
BOLIVIA

Bolivia Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Junín 229
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
BOLIVIA

Example 2:

Bolivia Post Office
Ayacucho Esquina
Sucre
BOLIVIA

Postal and Country Information for Bolivia

Country/territory name	Bolivia
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: BO ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: BOL ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 68
Administrative area count	9
Administration area names and abbreviations	Chuquisaca Cochabamba El Beni La Paz Oruro Pando Potosi Santa Cruz Tarija	H C B L O N P S T
Term to describe postal codes	-
Postal code format	-
Population	12 757 700
Total land area	1 084 390km²

How to Validate Addresses for Bolivia Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Region 3 column to validate City names

Explore our Bolivia address database.

Our location dataset for Bolivia

Bolivia ZIP Codes

Some countries do not use ZIP or postal codes, and Bolivia is one of them. Instead of a national postal code system, locations are identified using cities, localities, and administrative divisions. The database reflects this structure by standardizing these place-based identifiers into a unified global schema, ensuring consistent validation and reliable cross-country comparisons even in the absence of ZIP codes.

Bolivia ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Bolivia 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.

Bolivia Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Bolivia’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.