Saudi Arabia Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Dec 8, 2025

Updated: December 8, 2025

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Saudi Arabia Address Format Guide

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

Saudi Arabia - Address Format

An address format in Saudi Arabia contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House Number (if exists) and Street Name
District Name
City Name and Postal Code (5 digits)
Country – SAUDI ARABIA (in all caps)

John Smith
Qiba Rd
Al Jumah
Madinah 42315
SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Al Washm St
An Namudhajiyah
Riyadh 12735
SAUDI ARABIA

Example 2:

Saudi Arabia Post Office
Prince Abdulmajeed Ibn Abdulaziz
Al Jumah
Madinah 42316
SAUDI ARABIA

Postal and Country Information for Saudi Arabia

Country/territory name	Saudi Arabia
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: SA ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: SAU ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 682
Administrative area count	13
Administration area names and abbreviations	Al Bahah Al Jawf Al Madinah Al Qassim Asir Eastern region Ha’il Jizan Makkah Najran Northern borders Riyadh Tabuk	11 12 3 5 14 4 6 9 2 10 8 1 7
Term to describe postal codes	Postal code
Postal code format	99999
Population	38 015 202
Total land area	1 924 530km²

How to Validate Addresses for Saudi Arabia Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

You can leverage GeoPostcodes data to validate addresses in Saudi Arabia using:

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

Explore our Saudi Arabia address database.

Our location dataset for Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia ZIP Codes

Saudi Arabia 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, and is the same as the US ZIP codes. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Saudi Arabia has 12,730 postal codes covering 131 regions and 2,542 towns.

Saudi Arabia ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Saudi Arabia 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.

Saudi Arabia Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Saudi Arabia’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.