Romania address format, validation, & examples
How to write a Romanian address
Dracula may skip over you since you’ve decided to learn about how to address a letter to Romania. From his tower in Transylvania, he’ll be able to see that you’re trying your best to mail him (and clients and family members) a bottle of Țuică to say “salut” (hello). Take a look at our Romanian address examples here and try our suite of address validation tools for addresses in Romania below. Just enter an address, and we'll format, standardize, and validate it faster than you can say “Bucharest.”
This guide will also help you understand how Romanian address validation and verification work, whether you’re sending mail or processing address data programmatically via an API.
Now, let's get into the basics of the Romanian address format. The Romanian format for shipping or mailing addresses should be written as follows:
- Addressee line - The recipient's full name, using appropriate titles for the region.
- Street name and building number - The street name, followed by the building number, goes on this line. No separating punctuation is needed between the two.
- City - Next, the city goes on its own line.
- COUNTRY - Write “ROU” in all caps on the last line.

Valid Romania address examples
Address validation and verification in Romania
Romanian address data can look correct on the surface and still contain missing, inconsistent, or unusable information. Address validation in Romania helps standardize those details into a more reliable format, while address verification compares the address against trusted data to confirm it represents a real location.
Accurate Romanian addresses can support cleaner customer records, smoother deliveries, better billing data, more reliable logistics, and fewer manual corrections across downstream systems.
A Romanian address verification API can automate this process. Instead of checking records individually, organizations can validate Romanian addresses as they’re entered, imported, or processed, helping catch questionable data earlier in the workflow.
Whether you're managing a customer-facing form or a database containing millions of records, Romanian address validation can help improve consistency and reduce operational problems caused by poor address data.
Smarty address validation tools for Romania
Smarty® offers businesses multiple ways to verify, standardize, and format Romanian addresses, tailored to their volume and technical needs.
For quick Romanian address lookups, the international single address verification tool lets you check one record at a time. If you're cleaning or reviewing a large dataset, the bulk address validation tool can process multiple addresses at once. Developers can also use the International Street Address API to build Romanian address verification directly into applications, websites, internal systems, and automated workflows.
Smarty supports address validation in Romania as part of its international coverage across 250+ countries and territories. That means organizations can use the same platform for Romanian address data and other global markets without creating a separate process for every country.
Postal information
Alba – AB
Arad – AR
Argeş – AG
Bacău – BC
Bihor – BH
Bistriţa-Năsăud – BN
Botoşani – BT
Braşov – BV
Brăila – BR
Buzău – BZ
Caraş-Severin – CS
Călăraşi – CL
Cluj – CJ
Constanţa – CT
Covasna – CV
Dâmboviţa – DB
Dolj – DJ
Galaţi – GL
Giurgiu – GR
Gorj – GJ
Harghita – HR
Hunedoara – HD
Ialomiţa – IL
Iaşi – IS
Ilfov – IF
Maramureş – MM
Mehedinţi – MH
Mureş – MS
Neamţ – NT
Olt – OT
Prahova – PH
Satu Mare – SM
Sălaj – SJ
Sibiu – SB
Suceava – SV
Teleorman – TR
Timiş – TM
Tulcea – TL
Vaslui – VS
Vâlcea – VL
Vrancea – VN
Posta Romana
Country information
Since you know so much about the Romanian address format, maybe you’re ready to hike the Carpathian Mountains. No? Oh. We get it… You need MORE information on Romanian address formatting before feeling comfortable with that. No worries. We’ve got you covered.
Population information
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