Norway Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Nov 27, 2025

Updated: November 27, 2025

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Norway Address Format Guide

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

Norway - Address Format

An address format in Norway contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House number
Postal Code (4 digits) and City Name
Country – NORWAY (in all caps)

John Smith
Lurtindveien 1
8007 Bodø
NORWAY

Norway Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Karl Pettersens Gate 27
9009 Tromsø
NORWAY

Example 2:

Norway Post Office
Balchens Gate 7
0265 Oslo
NORWAY

Postal and Country Information for Norway

Country/territory name	Norway
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: NO ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: NOR ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 578
Administrative area count	17
Administration area names and abbreviations	Agder Akershus Buskerud Finnmark More og Romsdal Nordland Oppland Oslo Ostfold Rogaland Telemark Troms Trondelag Vestfold Vestland	42 32 33 56 15 18 34 3 31 11 40 55 50 39 46
Term to describe postal codes	Postnummer
Postal code format	9999
Population	5 432 832
Total land area	323 907km²

How to Validate Addresses for Norway Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

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

Explore our Norway address database.

Our location dataset for Norway

Norway ZIP Codes

Norway uses a “Postnummer” system, which is a four-digit numeric format, like 9999, with no letters or separators. This is similar to US ZIP codes, which are also numeric, but US ZIP codes are five digits long compared to Norway’s four. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Norway has 5,141 postal codes covering 374 regions and 1,839 towns.

Norway ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Norway 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.

Norway Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Norway’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.