Bulgaria Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Bulgaria Address Format Guide

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

Bulgaria - Address Format

An address format in Bulgaria contains the following elements:

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

John Smith
Dame Gruev 38
4030 Plovdiv
BULGARIA

Bulgaria Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Rozova Dolina 25
1421 Sofia
BULGARIA

Example 2:

Bulgaria Post Office
Sveta Troitsa 184
6004 Stara Zagora
BULGARIA

Postal and Country Information for Bulgaria

Country/territory name	Bulgaria
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: BG ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: BGR ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 100
Administrative area count	28
Administration area names and abbreviations
Term to describe postal codes	Пощенски код
Postal code format	9999
Population	6 548 591
Total land area	110 975km²

How to Validate Addresses for Bulgaria Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

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

Explore our Bulgaria address database.

Our location dataset for Bulgaria

Bulgaria ZIP Codes

Bulgaria uses a “Пощенски код” 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 Bulgaria’s four. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Bulgaria has 4,612 postal codes covering 299 regions and 5,299 towns.

Bulgaria ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Bulgaria 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.

Bulgaria Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Bulgaria’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.