Gambia Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Nov 27, 2025

Updated: November 27, 2025

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Gambia Address Format Guide

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

Gambia - Address Format

An address format in Gambia contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House number and Street Name
City Name
Country – GAMBIA (in all caps)

John Smith
59 Mamadi Maniyang Highway
Serrekunda
GAMBIA

Gambia Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
101 Atlantic Blvd
Bakau
Gambia

Example 2:

Serekunda Post Office
Kairaba Ave
Serrekunda
Gambia

Postal and Country Information for Gambia

Country/territory name	Gambia
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: GM ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: GMB ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 270
Administrative area count	8
Administration area names and abbreviations	Banjul Basse Brikama Kerewan Kuntaur Mansakonko	B U W N M L
Term to describe postal codes	-
Postal code format	-
Population	2 910 762
Total land area	11 262km²

How to Validate Addresses for Gambia Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Locality column to validate City names

Explore our Gambia address database.

Our location dataset for Gambia

Gambia ZIP Codes

Some countries do not use ZIP or postal codes, and Gambia is one of them. Instead of a national postal code system, locations are identified using cities, localities, and administrative divisions. The database reflects this structure by standardizing these place-based identifiers into a unified global schema, ensuring consistent validation and reliable cross-country comparisons even in the absence of ZIP codes.

Gambia ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Gambia 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.

Gambia Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Gambia’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.