Egypt Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Egypt Address Format Guide

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

Egypt - Address Format

An address format in Egypt contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House number and Street name
Centers
Governorates
Postal Code (7 Digits)
Country – EGYPT (in all caps)

John Smith
16 Kret
Al Manshiyya
Alexandria
5361024
EGYPT

Egypt Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
16 El-Bahr
El Mansoura
Dakahlia
7661873
EGYPT

Example 2:

Egypt Post Office
Qasouret Ash Shawam
Rod El Farag
Cairo
4341121
Egypt

Postal and Country Information for Egypt

Country/territory name	Egypt
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: EG ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: EGY ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 818
Administrative area count	27
Administration area names and abbreviations	Alexandria Al Sharqia Aswan Asyut Beheira Beni Suef Cairo Dakahlia Damietta Faiyum Gharbia Giza Ismailia Kafr el-Sheikh Luxor Matrouh Minya Monufia New Valley North Sinai Port Said Qalyubia Qena Red Sea Sohag South Sinai Suez	ALX SHR ASN AST BH BNS C DK DT FYM GH GZ IS KFS LX MT MN MNF WAD SIN PTS KB KN BA SHG JS SUZ
Term to describe postal codes	الرمز البريدى
Postal code format	9999999
Population	116 234 607
Total land area	1 000 940km²

How to Validate Addresses for Egypt Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Region 2 column to validate Center names
Region 1 column to validate Governorates
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes

Explore our Egypt address database.

Our location dataset for Egypt

Explore our comprehensive collection of Egypt ZIP code and administrative data products, designed to meet all your mapping and location intelligence needs.

Egypt ZIP Codes

Egypt uses an “الرمز البريدى” (postal code) system, which is a seven-digit numeric format like 9999999, with no letters or separators. This means it uses only numbers, unlike US ZIP codes which are also numeric. However, US ZIP codes are five digits long compared to Egypt’s seven-digit format. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Egypt has 533,859 postal codes covering 426 regions and 8,533 towns.

Egypt ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Egypt 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.

Egypt Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Egypt’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.