Czechia Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Updated: July 9, 2025
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Czechia Address Format Guide

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

Czechia - Address Format

An address format in Czechia contains the following elements:

  1. Recipient’s name
  2. Business or department name (if applicable)
  3. Street name and House number
  4. Postal code (5 digits)
  5. City Name
  6. Country – CZECH REP. (in all caps)

John Smith
Nezvěstice 250
332 04
Nezvěstice
CZECH REPUBLIC

Czechia Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Kašparova 362
463 12
Liberec-Vesec
CZECH REPUBLIC

Example 2:

Czech Post Office
Žižkova 850
503 46
Třebechovice pod Orebem
CZECH REPUBLIC

Postal and Country Information for Czechia

Country/territory name Czechia
ISO codes ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: CZ
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: CZE
ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 203
Administrative area count 14
Administration area names and abbreviations
  • Central Bohemia
  • Karlovy Vary
  • Kraj Vysocina
  • Kralovehradecky
  • Liberec Region
  • Moravian-Silesian
  • Olomouc Region
  • Pardubice Region
  • Plzen Region
  • Prague
  • South Bohemian
  • South Moravian
  • Ustecky
  • Zlin
  • 20
  • 41
  • 63
  • 52
  • 51
  • 80
  • 71
  • 53
  • 32
  • 10
  • 31
  • 64
  • 42
  • 72
Term to describe postal codes PSČ
Postal code format 999 99
Population 10 513 550
Total land area 78 875km²

How to Validate Addresses for Czechia Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

  • Street column to validate Street names
  • Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
  • Region 4 column to validate City names

Our location dataset for Czechia

Czechia ZIP Codes

Czechia uses a “PSČ” system. The postal code format is 999 99, which is a five-digit numeric format with a space separating the third and fourth digits. This means it uses only numbers. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Czechia has 2,678 postal codes covering 6,869 regions and 14,880 towns. This format is similar to numeric US ZIP codes as both are numeric, but US ZIP codes are five digits long and typically do not have a space in the middle.

Czechia ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Czechia 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.

Czechia Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Czechia’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.

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