Greece Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Greece Address Format Guide

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

Greece - Address Format

An address format in Greece contains the following elements:

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

John Smith
111 Kallikratida
185 46 Pireas
GREECE

Greece Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
14 Chalkokondili
106 77 Athina
GREECE

Example 2:

Greece Post Office
100 Aiolou
102 00 Athina
GREECE

Postal and Country Information for Greece

Country/territory name	Greece
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: GR ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: GRC ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 300
Administrative area count	14
Administration area names and abbreviations	Attica Central Greece Central Macedonia Crete East Macedonia and Thrace Epirus Ionian Islands North Aegean Peloponnese South Aegean Thessaly Western Greece West Macedonia Mount Athos	I H B M A D F K J L E G C 69
Term to describe postal codes	ΤΚ
Postal code format	999 99
Population	10 221 165
Total land area	131 933km²

How to Validate Addresses for Greece Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Street column to validate Street names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Region 3 column to validate City names

Explore our Greece address database.

Our location dataset for Greece

Greece ZIP Codes

Greece uses a “ΤΚ” 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, Greece has 1,008 postal codes covering 422 regions and 15,319 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.

Greece ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Greece 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.

Greece Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Greece’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.