Kuwait Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Dec 8, 2025

Updated: December 8, 2025

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Kuwait Address Format Guide

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

Kuwait - Address Format

An address format in Kuwait contains the following elements:

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

John Smith
6661 Yousef Ben Hamoud Street
Salmiya 22077
KUWAIT

Kuwait Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Al Mubarakiya
Kuwait City 00965
KUWAIT

Example 2:

Kuwait Post Office
Ahmad Al Jaber St
Kuwait City 13009
KUWAIT

Postal and Country Information for Kuwait

Country/territory name	Kuwait
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: KW ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: KWT ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 414
Administrative area count	6
Administration area names and abbreviations	Al Ahmadi Al Asimah Al Farwaniyah Al Jahra Hawalli Mubarak Al-Kabeer	AH KU FA JA HA MU
Term to describe postal codes	Postal code
Postal code format	99999
Population	4 379 537
Total land area	17 261km²

How to Validate Addresses for Kuwait Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

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

Explore our Kuwait address database.

Our location dataset for Kuwait

Kuwait ZIP Codes

Kuwait uses a “Postal code” 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, Kuwait has 6,302 postal codes covering 6 regions and 157 towns.

Kuwait ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Kuwait 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.

Kuwait Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Kuwait’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.