Brazil Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Brazil Address Format Guide

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

Brazil - Address Format

An address format in Brazil contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House number
Neighborhood (if exists)
City Name and State Abbreviation
Postcode (8 digits)
Country – BRAZIL (in all caps)

John Smith
R. Cândido de Souza 710A
Gameleira
Belo Horizonte – MG
30510-070
BRAZIL

Brazil Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
St. de Habitações Individuais Geminadas Sul 708
Asa Sul
Brasília – DF
70351-750
BRAZIL

Example 2:

Brazil Post Office
R. Galdino Pímentel, 185
Cuiabá – MT
78005-020
BRAZIL

Postal and Country Information for Brazil

Country/territory name	Brazil
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: BR ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: BRA ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 76
Administrative area count	27
Administration area names and abbreviations	Federal District Acre Alagoas Amapa Amazonas Ceara Espirito Santo Estado de Bahia Goias Maranhao Mato Grosso Mato Grosso do Sul Minas Gerais Para Paraiba Parana Pernambuco Piaui Rio de Janeiro Rio Grande Do Norte Rio Grande Do Sul Rondonia Roraima Santa Catarina Sao Paulo Sergipe Tocantins	DF AC AL AP AM CE ES BA GO MA MT MS MG PA PB PR PE PI RJ RN RS RO RR SC SP SE TO
Term to describe postal codes	CEP
Postal code format	99999-999
Population	218 797 261
Total land area	8 496 120km²

How to Validate Addresses for Brazil Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Street column to validate Street names
Suburb column to validate Neighbourhoods
Region 3 column to validate City names excl. the capital (Region 2)
ISO2 column to validate State Abbreviations
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes

Explore our Brazil address database.

Our location dataset for Brazil

Brazil ZIP Codes

Brazil uses a “CEP” system, which is an eight-digit numeric format like 99999-999, with a hyphen separating the fifth and sixth digits. This means it uses only numbers. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Brazil has 1,317,168 postal codes covering 6,187 regions and 11,161 towns. The local term for ‘postal code’ in Brazil is CEP. This format is similar to numeric US ZIP codes as both are numeric, but US ZIP codes are five digits long compared to Brazil’s eight-digit format with a hyphen.

Brazil ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Brazil 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.

Brazil Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Brazil’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.