Uruguay Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Nov 28, 2025

Updated: November 28, 2025

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Uruguay Address Format Guide

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

Uruguay - Address Format

An address format in Uruguay contains the following elements:

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

John Smith
Av. Millán 3780
11700 Montevideo
Departamento de Montevideo
URUGUAY

Uruguay Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Aparicio Saravia 580
37000 Melo
Departamento de Cerro Largo
URUGUAY

Example 2:

Uruguay Post Office
La Paz 1341
11800 Montevideo
Departamento de Montevideo
URUGUAY

Postal and Country Information for Uruguay

Country/territory name	Uruguay
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: UY ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: URY ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 858
Administrative area count	19
Administration area names and abbreviations	Artigas Canelones Cerro Largo Colonia Durazno Flores Florida Lavalleja Maldonado Montevideo Paysandu Rio Negro Rivera Rocha Salto San Jose Soriano Tacuarembo Treinta y Tres	AR CA CL CO DU FS FD LA MA MO PA RN RV RO SA SJ SO TA TT
Term to describe postal codes	Código postal
Postal code format	99999
Population	3 415 391
Total land area	178 164km²

How to Validate Addresses for Uruguay Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Street column to validate Street Names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Locality column to validate City Names
Region 1 column to validate Department Names

Explore our Uruguay address database.

Our location dataset for Uruguay

Uruguay ZIP Codes

Uruguay uses a “Código postal” system, which is a five-digit numeric format, like 99999, with no letters or separators. This system is purely numeric. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Uruguay has 121 postal codes covering 131 regions and 1,954 towns. This format is similar to US ZIP codes, which are also five digits and purely numeric.

Uruguay ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Uruguay 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.

Uruguay Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Uruguay’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.