Italy Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Italy Address Format Guide

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

Italy - Address Format

An address format in Italy contains the following elements:

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

John Smith
Via dei Tessitori di Seta 65
80144 Napoli NA
ITALY

Italy Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Via Savona 3
56123 Pisa PI
ITALY

Example 2:

Italy Post Office
Via Amintore Fanfani 15
52036 Pieve Santo Stefano AR
ITALY

Postal and Country Information for Italy

Country/territory name	Italy
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: IT ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: ITA ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 380
Administrative area count	20
Administration area names and abbreviations	Abruzzo Apulia Basilicata Calabria Campania Emilia-Romagna Lazio Liguria Lombardy Molise Piedmont The Marches Tuscany Umbria Veneto Aosta Valley Friuli-Venezia Giulia Sardinia Sicily Trentino-South Tyrol	65 75 77 78 72 45 62 42 25 67 21 57 52 55 34 23 36 88 82 32
Term to describe postal codes	CAP
Postal code format	99999
Population	58 474 485
Total land area	301 396km²

How to Validate Addresses for Italy Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Street column to validate Street names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Region 3 column to validate City names
ISO2 column to validate Province codes

Explore our Italy address database.

Our location dataset for Italy

Italy ZIP Codes

Italy uses a “CAP” system, which is a five-digit numeric format, like 99999, with no letters or separators. This format is similar to US ZIP codes, which are also five digits and purely numeric. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Italy has 4,698 postal codes covering 8,022 regions and 36,198 towns.

Italy ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Italy 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.

Italy Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Italy’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.