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address
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thumb|Illuminated address to see better at night An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used to give the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or apartment numbers and organization name. Some addresses also contain special codes, such as a postal code, to make identification easier and aid in the routing of mail.
An address is a standardized collection of information—typically including street names, house numbers, and postal codes—that identifies the specific location of a building, apartment, or piece of land. Addresses matter because they enable people to find physical locations and help postal services and delivery systems efficiently route mail and packages to the correct destinations.
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- Letter from HAH to HMW, 1937-08-06, envelope front.png
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- described at URL
- www.whosonfirst.org/docs/placetypes/#address
- Commons category
- Address (geography)
- equivalent class
- ontologies.semanticarts.com/gist/Address
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C25407
- Wikidata usage instructions
- Use as a qualifier for P6375 (street address)
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Current addressing schemes
- House numbering or naming
- {{anchor|cartesian}}Quadrants
- Street-naming conventions
- Postal codes
- Postal alternatives to physical addresses
- Address format
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Illuminated address to see better at night An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used to give the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or apartment numbers and organization name. Some addresses also contain special codes, such as a postal code, to make identification easier and aid in the routing of mail.
Addresses provide a means of physically locating a building. They are used in identifying buildings as the end points of a postal system and as parameters in statistics collection, especially in census-taking and the insurance industry. Address formats are different in different places, and unlike latitude and longitude coordinates, there is no simple mapping from an address to a location.