Croatia Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Dec 8, 2025

Updated: December 8, 2025

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Croatia Address Format Guide

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

Croatia - Address Format

An address format in Croatia contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House number
Postal Code (5 Digits) and City
Country – CROATIA (in all caps)

John Smith
Ul. Tolstojeva 41
21000 Split
CROATIA

Croatia Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Crno 107
23000 Crno
CROATIA

Example 2:

Croatia Post Office
Šibenska ul. 9J
23000 Zadar
CROATIA

Postal and Country Information for Croatia

Country/territory name	Croatia
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: HR ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: HRV ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 191
Administrative area count	21
Administration area names and abbreviations	City of Zagreb Bjelovar-Bilogora Brod-Posavina Dubrovnik-Neretva Istria Karlovac Koprivnica-Krizevci Krapina-Zagorje Lika-Senj Medimurje Osijek-Baranja Pozega-Slavonija Primorje-Gorski Kotar Sibenik-Knin Sisak-Moslavina Split-Dalmatia Varazdin Virovitica-Podravina Vukovar-Srijem Zadar Zagreb	21 7 12 19 18 4 6 2 9 20 14 11 8 15 3 17 5 10 16 13 1
Term to describe postal codes	Postal code
Postal code format	99999
Population	3 937 570
Total land area	56 570km²

How to Validate Addresses for Croatia Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

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

Explore our Croatia address database.

Our location dataset for Croatia

Croatia ZIP Codes

Croatia uses a “Postal code” system, which is a five-digit numeric format like 99999, 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, Croatia has 288 postal codes covering 577 regions and 7,104 towns.

Croatia ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Croatia 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.

Croatia Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Croatia’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.