Hungary Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Hungary Address Format Guide

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

Hungary - Address Format

An address format in Hungary contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
City
Street name and House Number
Postal Code (4 digits)
Country – HUNGARY (in all caps)

John Smith
Szombathely
Légszeszgyár u. 11
9700
HUNGARY

Hungary Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Budapest
Felvidék u. 64
1202
HUNGARY

Example 2:

Hungary Post Office
Budapest
Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 16
1051
HUNGARY

Postal and Country Information for Hungary

Country/territory name	Hungary
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: HU ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: HUN ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 348
Administrative area count	20
Administration area names and abbreviations	Bács-Kiskun Baranya Békés Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Budapest Csongrád-Csanád Fejér Győr-Moson-Sopron Hajdú-Bihar Heves Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Komárom-Esztergom Nógrád Pest Somogy Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Tolna Vas Veszprém Zala	BK BA BE BZ BU CS FE GS HB HE JN KE NO PE SO SZ TO VA VE ZA
Term to describe postal codes	Irányítószám
Postal code format	9999
Population	9 869 569
Total land area	93 005km²

How to Validate Addresses for Hungary Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

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

Explore our Hungary address database.

Our location dataset for Hungary

Hungary ZIP Codes

Hungary uses an “Irányítószám” system, which is a four-digit numeric format, like 9999, with no letters or separators. This is similar to US ZIP codes, which are also numeric, but US ZIP codes are five digits long compared to Hungary’s four. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Hungary has 3,046 postal codes covering 226 regions and 3,178 towns.

Hungary ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Hungary 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.

Hungary Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Hungary’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.