China address generator

How addresses are written in China

Layout from Google’s address metadata (libaddressinput), the format data Chrome and Android use for address forms.

In Latin script, the order changes:

Required fields

Street address, city, province and postcode

Postcode

Examples: 266033, 317204, 100096, 100808
Pattern: \d{6}

Provinces

31 in the dataset

Capitals

Mail labels conventionally capitalise the province

Script

Simplified Chinese, with a Latin-script version for international use

Calling code

+86

Official lookup

Postcode finder

About the data for China

ADataset-matched. Each locality, region and postcode is taken from the same Google address metadata hierarchy (libaddressinput) record.

Localities

2,852 · Google address metadata hierarchy (libaddressinput)

Postcodes

Every postcode comes from the dataset record of its locality.

Names

zh_CN (country-specific list)

Streets

Synthetic names built from common local street words. They are not taken from real maps.

• Chinese addresses run from province to street in Chinese characters. District postcodes come from the example codes Google publishes for each district.

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