Costa Rica Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Nov 28, 2025

Updated: November 28, 2025

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Costa Rica Address Format Guide

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

Costa Rica - Address Format

An address format in Costa Rica contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House number and Street name
Districts, Cantons and Provinces (Use all of them if the names are different)
Postal Code (5 digits)
Country – COSTA RICA (in all caps)

John Smith
1122 Alajuelita centro
Alajuelita, San José
11001
COSTA RICA

Costa Rica Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Esquina Norte de la Plaza de Deportes
La Alegría, Siquirres, Limón
70306
COSTA RICA

Example 2:

Costa Rica Post Office
75 metros oeste
Alajuela, Atenas
20501
COSTA RICA

Postal and Country Information for Costa Rica

Country/territory name	Costa Rica
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: CR ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: CRI ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 188
Administrative area count	7
Administration area names and abbreviations	Alajuela Cartago Guanacaste Heredia Limon Puntarenas San Jose	A C G H L P SJ
Term to describe postal codes	Código postal
Postal code format	99999
Population	5 278 775
Total land area	51 173km²

How to Validate Addresses for Costa Rica Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

Postal Database if you need to validate Municipalities, Provinces, Departments and Postal Codes in Costa Rica
Population Database if you would like to do urban/rural mapping or compute how many people live in Costa Rica segmented by postal code, city or administrative divisions

You can leverage GeoPostcodes data to validate addresses in Costa Rica using:

Region 3 column to validate Districts
Region 2 column to validate Cantons
Region 1 column to validate Provinces
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes

Explore our Costa Rica address database.

Our location dataset for Costa Rica

Costa Rica ZIP Codes

Costa Rica uses a “Código postal” system, which is a five-digit numeric format, like 99999, with no letters or separators. This means it uses only numbers, similar to US ZIP codes, which are also five digits and purely numeric. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Costa Rica has 487 postal codes covering 574 regions and 8,077 towns.

Costa Rica ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Costa Rica 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.

Costa Rica Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Costa Rica’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.