Netherlands Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Netherlands Address Format Guide

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

Netherlands - Address Format

An address format in Netherlands contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House number
Postcode (6 digits) and City Name
Country – NETHERLANDS (in all caps)

John Smith
Schoonoordstraat 48
3036 XJ Rotterdam
NETHERLANDS

Netherlands Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Johannes Jelgerhuishof 7
1065 TM Amsterdam
NETHERLANDS

Example 2:

Netherlands Post Office
Ganzenmarkt 2-6
3512 GD Utrecht
NETHERLANDS

Postal and Country Information for Netherlands

Country/territory name	Netherlands
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: NL ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: NLD ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 528
Administrative area count	15
Administration area names and abbreviations	Drenthe Flevoland Friesland Groningen Guelders Limburg North Brabant North Holland Overijssel South Holland Utrecht Zeeland Bonaire Saba Sint Eustatius	DR FL FR GR GE LI NB NH OV ZH UT ZE BQ1 BQ2 BQ3
Term to describe postal codes	Postcode
Postal code format	9999 AA
Population	17 703 274
Total land area	35 045km²

How to Validate Addresses for Netherlands Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Street column to validate Street names
Postcode column to validate Postcodes
Locality column to validate City names

Explore our Netherlands address database.

Our location dataset for Netherlands

Netherlands ZIP Codes

The Netherlands uses a “Postcode” system with a 9999 AA format, which is an alphanumeric system consisting of four digits followed by a space and two letters. This means it uses both numbers and letters, unlike numeric US ZIP codes which are five digits long and purely numeric. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, the Netherlands has 475,387 postal codes covering 357 regions and 2,490 towns.

Netherlands ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Netherlands 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.

Netherlands Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Netherlands’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.