Botswana Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Nov 27, 2025

Updated: November 27, 2025

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Botswana Address Format Guide

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

Botswana - Address Format

An address format in Botswana contains the following elements:

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

John Smith
Plot 125 Mongana
Gaborone
BOTSWANA

Botswana Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Private Bag 004
Hukuntsi
BOTSWANA

Example 2:

Botswana Post Office
103, A1
Francistown
BOTSWANA

Postal and Country Information for Botswana

Country/territory name	Botswana
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: BW ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: BWA ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 72
Administrative area count	16
Administration area names and abbreviations	Central Ghanzi Kgalagadi Kgatleng Kweneng North-East North-West South-East Southern Chobe Francistown Gaborone Jwaneng Lobatse Selibe Phikwe Sowa	CE GH KG KL KW NE NW SE SO CH FR GA JW LO SP ST
Term to describe postal codes	-
Postal code format	-
Population	2 764 764
Total land area	578 094km²

How to Validate Addresses for Botswana Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Locality column to validate City names

Explore our Botswana address database.

Our location dataset for Botswana

Botswana ZIP Codes

Some countries do not use ZIP or postal codes, and Botswana 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.

Botswana ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Botswana 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.

Botswana Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Botswana’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.