Poland Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Poland Address Format Guide

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

Poland - Address Format

An address format in Poland contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House number
Postal Code (5 {2-3} digits) and CITY NAMES (in all caps)
Country – POLAND (in all caps)

John Smith
20 Stycznia 1920 Roku 9/3
85-000 BYGGOSZCZ
POLAND

Poland Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Dokerów 12
80-812 GDAŃSK
POLAND

Example 2:

Poland Post Office
Aleja Juliusza Słowackiego 64
30-004 KRAKÓW
POLAND

Postal and Country Information for Poland

Country/territory name	Poland
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: PL ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: POL ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 616
Administrative area count	16
Administration area names and abbreviations	Greater Poland Kujawsko-Pomorskie Lesser Poland Voivodeship Lodz Voivodeship Lower Silesia Lublin Lubusz Mazovia Opole Voivodeship Podkarpackie Voivodeship Podlasie Pomerania Silesia Swietokrzyskie Warmia-Masuria Province West Pomerania	30 4 12 10 2 6 8 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 32
Term to describe postal codes	Kod pocztowy
Postal code format	99-999
Population	39 595 911
Total land area	312 709km²

How to Validate Addresses for Poland Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

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

Explore our Poland address database.

Our location dataset for Poland

Poland ZIP Codes

Poland uses a “Kod pocztowy” system, which is a five-digit numeric format like 99-999, with a hyphen separating the second and third digits. This means it uses only numbers. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Poland has 19,994 postal codes covering 2,873 regions and 51,134 towns. This format is similar to numeric US ZIP codes as both are numeric, but US ZIP codes are five digits long and typically do not have a hyphen in the middle.

Poland ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Poland 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.

Poland Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Poland’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.