Nepal Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Nov 27, 2025

Updated: November 27, 2025

Table of Contents

Nepal Address Format Guide

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

Nepal - Address Format

An address format in Nepal contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House Number and Street Name
City Name and Postal Code (5 digits)
Province (if different from the city)
Country – NEPAL (in all caps)

John Smith
03 Jhamsikhel Road
Lalitpur 44700
NEPAL

Nepal Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
16 Paknajol Marg
Kathmandu 44600
NEPAL

Example 2:

Nepal Post Office
15 Lagankhel Satdobato Rd
Lalitpur 44700
NEPAL

Postal and Country Information for Nepal

Country/territory name	Nepal
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: NP ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: NPL ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 524
Administrative area count	7
Administration area names and abbreviations	Bagmati Gandaki Karnali Koshi Lumbini Madhesh Sudurpashchim	P3 P4 P6 P1 P5 P2 P7
Term to describe postal codes	Postal code
Postal code format	99999
Population	31 626 595
Total land area	147 652km²

How to Validate Addresses for Nepal Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Locality column to validate City names
Region 3 column to validate Provinces
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes

Explore our Nepal address database.

Our location dataset for Nepal

Nepal ZIP Codes

Nepal uses a “Postal code” system, which is a five-digit numeric format, like 99999, with no letters or separators. This means it uses only numbers. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Nepal has 911 postal codes covering 565 regions and 904 towns. This format is similar to numeric US ZIP codes, which are also five digits and purely numeric.

Nepal ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Nepal 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.

Nepal Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Nepal’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.