Vatican City address format & examples
How to write a Vatican address
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Smarty is the premier provider of international address data tools. If you need Vatican City addresses validated or anywhere in the world, you can do so with Smarty. You can also write a letter to anywhere in the world and know it’s going to get there the first time. Here’s how Vatican City’s addresses should be formatted:
- Street and premise - The street name comes first, followed by the building or unit number.
- Postal code and city and administrative area—On the same line, list the postal code, followed by the city and then the governing area or province.
- Country - This can be shortened to VAT. Yay!
Valid Vatican City address examples
Residential address exampleArrowhead Dr 10560
22030 Va Stato Estero
VAT (opens in new tab)
Address example with unitsSuite 730
Arlington
S Clark St 1401
22202 Va Stato Estero
VAT (opens in new tab)
Commercial address exampleSuite 600
Alexandria
N Fairfax St 1199
22314 Va Stato Estero (opens in new tab)
Smarty address validation tools for Vatican City
Smarty® has a suite of address validation tools that can format, standardize, and validate Vatican City addresses, plus addresses in 250 other countries and territories worldwide. Validate your Vatican address with our tools.
Use the Single Address Verification Tool to verify and format 1 address at a time, the Bulk Address Validation Tool to verify and format a list addresses simultaneously, or use the International Street Address API to integrate address validation and formatting programmatically into your software systems and workflows.
Postal information
Vatican City's national postal system, "Vatican Postal Service," was established in 1929. The organization manages a substantial network, indicative of its role as a major postal service provider in the region.
Administrative area types and count
1 city-state
Administration area names and abbreviations
Vatican City
Term to describe postal codes
CAP
Postal code in language
codice di avviamento postale
Postal code format
120
Postal service provider and website
Vatican Postal Service
Country information
Do you still need additional information beyond formatting an address in Vatican City? Plenty of other location-based data, such as postal codes and ISO codes, is available for you to become the next expert on Vatican City addresses.
Country/territory name
Vatican City
ISO3
VAT
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
VA
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code
VAT
ISO 3166-1 numeric country code
336
Endonym
Vatican City
Total land area
- KM²
Capital
Vatican City
Other major cities
-
Population information
Total population
1000 (2023)
Urban / rural distribution
100% / 0%
Urban population
1000
Rural population
0
Official language
Italian, Latin
All languages spoken
Italian, Latin
Most commonly used postal language
Italian
Data from worldbank.org (opens in new tab)
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