International Address Formats

🇲🇰North Macedonia Address Format

North Macedonia addresses put the four-digit postal code before the city on the same line, and use Cyrillic street names that Western checkout forms often garble. Here is the correct structure, a real Skopje example, the postal code rules, and the mistakes that trigger failed deliveries.

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Correctly formatted

1000
Ana Petrovska
ul. Dimitrie Čupovski 5
1000 Skopje
NORTH MACEDONIA

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The North Macedonia address format, field by field

A North Macedonia label is recipient, optional company, the street name with the house number after it, then the four-digit postal code and city on one line, then the country. There is no region or province line.

1Recipient nameAna Petrovska personal or business recipient

2CompanyPrimer DOOEL optional, above the street line

3Street + house numberul. Dimitrie Čupovski 5 <code>ul.</code> (ulica) and the street name, then the house number

4Postal code + city1000 Skopje 4-digit code first, then the city, on one line

5CountryNORTH MACEDONIA required for inbound international shipments

Postal code rules

The postal code sets the sorting office and the delivering post office: the first digit is the postal centre, the last three the local office. It sits before the city, the reverse of the US 'city, state ZIP' order, which forms built for the US layout get wrong.

1000

Format: 4 digits, no spaces or letters. Written before the city on the same line: 1000 Skopje.

Validation regex: ^\d{4}$

Watch for: codes padded to five digits (US ZIP habit) or placed after the city. North Macedonia uses exactly four digits, code first.

What makes North Macedonia different

The country-specific rules that generic autocomplete and single-line address fields tend to get wrong.

Code before city

The postal code comes first

North Macedonia writes the four-digit code ahead of the city on one line: 1000 Skopje. A form that appends the code after the city, or expects a five-digit US ZIP, misplaces the field and stalls sorting at Pošta na Severna Makedonija.

Cyrillic vs Latin

Two scripts, one address

Macedonian is written in Cyrillic (ул. Димитрие Чуповски), but international labels are usually romanized (ul. Dimitrie Čupovski). Pick one script per label; a Cyrillic street dropped into a Latin-only carrier system can be garbled or transliterated inconsistently.

Number after street

House number follows the street

The house number comes after the street name: ul. Dimitrie Čupovski 5, not 5 Dimitrie Čupovski. Apartment or entrance details follow the house number, never before the street.

No province line

There is no region field

North Macedonia routes on the postal code and city, not on a region or municipality line. Adding a province field to your form creates an empty or invented value that carrier parsers ignore or misread.

Errors that cause failed deliveries to North Macedonia

Each of these passes a basic "is this field filled in" check but fails at the carrier, turning into a redelivery, a return, or an address correction fee.

✕Five-digit postal code. Padding the code to five digits (10000) breaks the four-digit format and fails validation against Macedonian postal data.

✕Code placed after the city. Skopje 1000 reverses the expected 1000 Skopje order and misaligns parsed fields.

✕House number before the street. 5 Dimitrie Čupovski instead of ul. Dimitrie Čupovski 5 is read as an unknown address.

✕Mixed Cyrillic and Latin. A Cyrillic street name on an otherwise romanized label can be dropped or garbled in transit.

✕Country line missing or wrong. Leaving off NORTH MACEDONIA, or writing only 'Macedonia', can misroute inbound parcels since the country was renamed in 2019.

Carrier notes for North Macedonia

How the major carriers handle North Macedonia addresses, and what your label needs to satisfy each one.

Pošta na Severna Makedonija

The national postal operator (formerly Makedonska Pošta) and last-mile partner for most inbound mail. Sorting is driven by the four-digit code, so validate it against the city first.

DHL & UPS

The main international express carriers for inbound cross-border ecommerce. They require a romanized address with the country line and surcharge address corrections on misrouted parcels.

FedEx & DPD

Cross-border road and express parcel networks serving North Macedonia from the EU and the Balkans. They expect the street-then-number order and a clean code-plus-city line.

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North Macedonia address format FAQ

How do you write a North Macedonia address?+

Recipient name, optional company, the street name (ulica, abbreviated ul.) followed by the house number, then the four-digit postal code and the city on one line, then NORTH MACEDONIA. There is no region or province line.

What is the postal code format for North Macedonia?+

Four digits with no spaces or letters, for example 1000 for central Skopje. The first digit is the sorting centre and the last three the local post office. It is written before the city and should never be padded to five digits.

Why do orders to North Macedonia get returned or delayed?+

Usually a five-digit or misplaced postal code, a street mixing Cyrillic and Latin script, or a house number written before the street. Because generic checkout fields let these through, validating the code against the city before the label prints prevents most returns.