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Ethiopia address generator

Random Ethiopia addresses with real city and province names, laid out the way Ethiopia writes them. No open dataset links postcodes to places. Postcodes are left out unless you turn on pattern-valid placeholders.

  • B Places verified
  • 256 cities
  • 14 provinces
  • Postcode: not linked
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100 Birch Street Adwa Ethiopia

  • City and province: GeoNames; postcode: not linked to places
  • Street name, number: synthetic

Synthetic test data: not a verified or deliverable address.

Street
100 Birch Street
City
Adwa
Province
Tigray Kilil
Postcode
Not linked to placesNo open dataset links postcodes to places here. Turn on placeholder postcodes to add a pattern-valid one.
Country
Ethiopia (ET)
Coordinates
14.163, 38.899 Approximate centre of the locality, not the building
BLocality and region are dataset-backed; postcodes are not linked to placesSeed page-ETHow coverage levels work

How addresses are written in Ethiopia

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

[Recipient name] [Organisation] [Street address] [Postcode] [City]
Required fields
Street address and city
Postcode
Examples: 1000
Pattern: \d{4}
Provinces
14 in the dataset
Script
Latin
Calling code
+251
Map of the 256 localities in Ethiopia used by the generator
Each dot is a city the generator can use.

About the data for Ethiopia

BPlaces verified. Places and regions are dataset-backed, but no open dataset links postcodes to places, so postcodes are left out unless you ask for placeholders.

Localities
256 · GeoNames populated places (cities500)
Postcodes
No open dataset links postcodes to places. Postcodes are left out unless you turn on pattern-valid placeholders.
Names
Ethiopian and Eritrean (regional approximation)
Streets
Synthetic names built from common local street words. They are not taken from real maps.

Sources, licences and method

Sample Ethiopia addresses

Eight addresses generated with a fixed seed. The city, province are real; street names and numbers are not.

Formatted addressPostcode
9 Haile Road Flat 11 Dembech’a—
183 Tesfaye Kebede Crescent Shendi—
42 Forest Road Nazrēt—
243 Ash Avenue Unit 3 Kele—
138 Ayele Drive Butajīra—
18 Sunset Avenue Asaita—
116 Bridge Road Unit 2 Bishoftu—
210 Poplar Road Hadero—

Provinces of Ethiopia

Pick one in the generator above to keep every address inside it.

ProvinceLocalities
Ādīs Ābeba Āstedader1
Āfar Kilil10
Āmara Kilil59
Bīnshangul Gumuz Kilil4
Central Ethiopia Regional State13
Dirē Dawa Āstedader1
Gambēla Hizboch Kilil1
Hārerī Hizb Kilil1
Oromīya Kilil79
Sidama Region6
South Ethiopia Regional State31
South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region7
Sumalē Kilil22
Tigray Kilil19

Neighbouring countries