Pakistan Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Nov 28, 2025

Updated: November 28, 2025

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Pakistan Address Format Guide

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

Pakistan - Address Format

An address format in Pakistan contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House Number and Street Name
Town (only in rural areas)
City Name and Postal Code (5 digits)
Country – PAKISTAN (in all caps)

John Smith
14 Auto Bahn Rd
Hyderabad 17000
PAKISTAN

Pakistan Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Block G North
Nazimabad Town
Karachi 74700
PAKISTAN

Example 2:

Pakistan Post Office
Township Block 7 Sector B 1
Lahore 54770
PAKISTAN

Postal and Country Information for Pakistan

Country/territory name	Pakistan
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: PK ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: PAK ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 586
Administrative area count	7
Administration area names and abbreviations	Islamabad Balochistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Punjab Sindh Azad Kashmir Gilgit Baltistan	IS BA KP PB SD JK GB
Term to describe postal codes	Postal code
Postal code format	99999
Population	249 898 215
Total land area	875 398km²

How to Validate Addresses for Pakistan Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

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

Explore our Pakistan address database.

Our location dataset for Pakistan

Pakistan ZIP Codes

Pakistan 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, similar to US ZIP codes, which are also five digits and purely numeric. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Pakistan has 3,292 postal codes covering 393 regions and 2,406 towns.

Pakistan ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Pakistan 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.

Pakistan Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Pakistan’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.