Iran Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Dec 8, 2025

Updated: December 8, 2025

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Iran Address Format Guide

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

Iran - Address Format

An address format in Iran contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House Number and Street Name
City Name and State Name (if different from the City)
Postal Code (10 digits – optional)
Country – IRAN (in all caps)

John Smith
District 8
Shiraz
Fars Province
IRAN

Iran Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
15 Mirzaee Alley Street
Kerman
7561789764
IRAN

Example 2:

Iran Post Office
198 Mirdamad Blvd.
Tehran
IRAN

Postal and Country Information for Iran

Country/territory name	Iran
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: IR ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: IRN ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 364
Administrative area count	31
Administration area names and abbreviations	Alborz Ardebil Azarbayejan-e Gharbi Azarbayejan-e Sharghi Bushehr Chaharmahal and Bakhtiyari Esfahan Fars Gilan Golestan Hamedan Hormozgan Ilam Kerman Kermanshah Khorasan-e Jonubi Khorasan-e Razavi Khorasan-e Shomali Khuzestan Kohgiluyeh and Boyerahmad Kurdistan Lorestan Markazi Mazandaran Qazvin Qom Semnan Sistan and Baluchestan Tehran Yazd Zanjan	30 24 4 3 18 14 10 7 1 27 13 22 16 8 5 29 9 28 6 17 12 15 0 2 26 25 20 11 23 21 19
Term to describe postal codes	Postal code
Postal code format	9999999999
Population	90 368 572
Total land area	1 621 960km²

How to Validate Addresses for Iran Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

Postal Database if you only need to validate Cities, Provinces and Postal Codes (First 2 digits only) in Iran
Population Database if you would like to do urban/rural mapping or compute how many people live in Iran segmented by postal code, city or administrative divisions

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

Locality column to validate City names
Region 1 column to validate Province names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes

Explore our Iran address database.

Our location dataset for Iran

Iran ZIP Codes

Iran uses a “Postal code” system, which is a ten-digit numeric format like 9999999999, with no letters or separators. This means it uses only numbers, similar to US ZIP codes which are also numeric. However, US ZIP codes are five digits long compared to Iran’s ten-digit format. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Iran has 55 postal codes covering 31 regions and 398 towns. The local term for ‘postal code’ in Iran is Postal code.

Iran ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Iran 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.

Iran Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Iran’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.