Bosnia and Herzegovina Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

May 29, 2026

Updated: May 29, 2026

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Bosnia and Herzegovina Address Format Guide

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

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Address Format

An address format in Bosnia and Herzegovina contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street Name and House Number
City Name and Postal Code (5 digits)
Country – BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA(in all caps)

John Smith
Konak 18
Mostar 88000
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

Bosnia and Herzegovina Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Skenderpašina 27
Sarajevo 71000
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

Example 2:

Bosnia and Herzegovina Post Office
Ćurčiluk mali 2
Sarajevo 71000
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

Postal and Country Information for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Country/territory name	Bosnia and Herzegovina
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: BA ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: BIH ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 70
Administrative area count	3
Administration area names and abbreviations	Bosniak-Croat Federation Republika Srpska Brcko	BIH SRP BRC
Term to describe postal codes	Poštanski broj
Postal code format	99999
Population	3 177 888
Total land area	51 215km²

How to Validate Addresses for Bosnia and Herzegovina Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

You can leverage GeoPostcodes data to validate addresses in Bosnia and Herzegovina using:

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

Explore our Bosnia and Herzegovina address database.

Our location dataset for Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

Bosnia and Herzegovina ZIP Codes

Bosnia and Herzegovina uses a “Poštanski broj” system. The postal code format is 99999, which is a five-digit numeric format with no letters or separators. This format is similar to US ZIP codes, which are also five digits and purely numeric. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Bosnia and Herzegovina has 770 postal codes covering 148 regions and 657 towns.

Bosnia and Herzegovina ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Bosnia and Herzegovina 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.

Bosnia and Herzegovina Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Bosnia and Herzegovina’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.