United Arab Emirates address format & examples

“As-salamu alaykum” (Peace be upon you). It’s time to learn how to address a letter that’s headed to the United Arab Emirates. Pick up some dates (the kind you eat) and get settled. It’s time to dig into United Arab Emirates address formats and examples. Writing a letter to your clients, friends, and family in the United Arab Emirates couldn’t be easier. All you have to do is look at address examples here and try our suite of address validation tools for United Arab Emirati address formats below. Just enter an address, and we'll format, standardize, and validate it faster than you can say “Henna.”

Transliterating Arabic addresses to English characters

Before we get started, here’s a note on transliteration: Address transliteration is the process of converting address characters in one alphabet (in this case Arabic characters) to another (English or Latin characters) while still preserving the intended tone and representation of the words. In other words, we’re using Latin characters to represent the phonetics of Arabic words. It’s important to understand that transliteration isn’t the same as translation. (That’s why translating tools don’t always get the message right). Transliteration is a mechanism that we use to bridge language barriers while maintaining mailability and accuracy to the phonics of those words, and this is one of the countries where Smarty offers transliteration services.

Now, let's get into the basics of the United Arab Emirates’s address format. United Arab Emirati address formatting for shipping or mailing addresses should be written as follows:

1. Addressee line - The recipient's full name, using appropriate titles.
2. Street name and building or house number - This line should include the street name and building number without any separating commas or punctuation.
3. Dependent locality - The dependent locality gets its own line. YAY.
4. City - The city also goes on a line all by itself.
5. Country - Write "ARE" in all caps on the last line. Ta-da! You’re done.

Pause your camel racing special as we’re going to provide you with even more exciting and detailed information on the United Arab Emirates’s address format.