Postal addresses in Taiwan


Postal addresses in Taiwan use the East Asian addressing system. When written in Chinese, addresses start from the largest administrative unit and continue to the smallest, although in English the order is often reversed.

Format

Addresses start with a postal code, followed by administrative divisions in the following order:
  1. Municipality or county
  2. City district, urban township or rural township
  3. Urban village or rural village
  4. Neighborhood
Villages and neighborhoods are optional. Next is the street address, also in order from larger to smaller:
  1. Road or street
  2. Section, for longer roads
  3. Lane
  4. Alley
  5. Sub-Alley
  6. House number
  7. Floor or building
  8. Apartment 。
House numbers are generally in geographic order with odd and even numbers on opposite sides of the street. However, numbering resets when a new road section starts, so that No.295, Sec. 1 may be followed by No.1, Sec. 2. It is also not uncommon for new numbers to be inserted, resulting in No.5, No.5-1, No.7, etc.

Examples

The address of Chunghwa Post, which is located directly on a main street in Taipei, is written in Chinese as :
106409
臺北市大安區
金山南路2段55號
Reversing the order, the English address, also with 3+3 postal code:
No.55, Sec. 2, Jinshan S. Rd., Da-an District, Taipei City 106409, Taiwan