Postal addresses in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

(Republic of China) 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 Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...

in the following order: # Municipality (市 shì) or county (縣 xiàn) # City district (區 qū), urban township (鎮 zhèn) or rural township (鄉 xiāng) # Urban village (里 lǐ) or rural village (村 cūn) # Neighborhood (鄰 lín) Villages and neighborhoods are optional. Next is the street address, also in order from larger to smaller: # Road (路 lù) or street (街 jiē) # Section (段 duàn), for longer roads # Lane (巷 xiàng) # Alley (弄 lòng) # House number (號 hào) # Floor (樓 lóu) or building (棟 dòng) # Apartment (之 zhi)。(之 can also be a nearby independent house.) 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 Chunghwa Post Co., Ltd. is the official postal service of Taiwan (officially the Republic of China). Chunghwa Post was a government agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications until 2003, when it was reorganized into a governm ...

, which is located directly on a main street in Taipei, is written in Chinese as (old 3+2 postal code: 10603): 106409 台北市大安區金山南路2段55號 Reversing the order, the English address,https://www.post.gov.tw/post/internet/U_english2/default.jsp (bottom left of the page) also with 3+3 postal code: No. 55, Sec. 2, Jinshan S. Rd., Daan Dist., Taipei City 106409

References

{{reflist Postal system of Taiwan