Sweden Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Sweden Address Format Guide

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

Sweden - Address Format

An address format in Sweden contains the following elements:

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

John Smith
Krukmakargatan 35
118 51 Stockholm
SWEDEN

Sweden Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Backavägen 2
417 30 Gothenburg
SWEDEN

Example 2:

PostNord Företagscenter
Kruthusgatan 19A
411 04 Gothenburg
SWEDEN

Postal and Country Information for Sweden

Country/territory name	Sweden
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: SE ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: SWE ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 752
Administrative area count	21
Administration area names and abbreviations	Blekinge Dalarna Gavleborg Gotland Halland Jamtland Jonkoping Kalmar Kronoberg Norrbotten Orebro Ostergotland Skane Sodermanland Stockholm Uppsala Varmland Vasterbotten Vasternorrland Vastmanland Vastra Gotaland	K W X I N Z F H G BD T E M D AB C S AC Y U O
Term to describe postal codes	Postnummer
Postal code format	999 99
Population	9 602 269
Total land area	450 113km²

How to Validate Addresses for Sweden Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

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

Explore our Sweden address database.

Our location dataset for Sweden

Sweden ZIP Codes

Sweden uses a “Postnummer” system. The postal code format is 999 99, which is a five-digit numeric format with a space separating the third and fourth digits. This means it uses only numbers. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Sweden has 16,066 postal codes covering 311 regions and 1,740 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 space in the middle.

Sweden ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Sweden 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.

Sweden Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Sweden’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.