How an address is written in the United Arab Emirates
An address in the United Arab Emirates is written in this order: house number and street name, then emirate. The format table carries no postal code for the United Arab Emirates. Nothing beyond the written form can be checked here: no address register is installed for the United Arab Emirates.
The order the lines go in
The parts are named rather than filled in: Spaw does not know an address in the United Arab Emirates and will not invent one. This block is produced by the same function that rewrites a real address, so the line order, the capitals the United Arab Emirates asks for and any text its operator prints on every envelope are the checker's own behaviour rather than a second description of it.
Organisation 12 Street name Flat or unit Emirate
No recipient line: nothing in the response is about a person, so the name the envelope carries is not part of what is checked.
| field | called here | required | capitals |
|---|---|---|---|
| organization | Organisation | optional | — |
| addressLine1 | Street name | required | — |
| addressLine2 | Flat or unit | optional | — |
| administrativeArea | Emirate | required | — |
No house-number rule is carried for the United Arab Emirates, so the international default is used: the house number comes before the street name.
Can Spaw tell whether an address in the United Arab Emirates exists?
No. No address register is installed for the United Arab Emirates, so exists answers null: not evaluated, never no. An address can be perfectly formed and still not exist, and nothing here will pretend to know which.
Further reading: How to read an address-existence answer.
Check an address in the United Arab Emirates
The same lookup the API runs, with United Arab Emirates already selected.
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Response
Look up any address to see the full API response, straight from the live service. The country decides which format it is read against.
The postal code
The table carries no postal code pattern for the United Arab Emirates, so an address here is never marked down for lacking one and a value that is supplied is passed through unchecked. That is the honest answer: this page will not invent a format for a country that does not publish one.
No postcode directory is installed here for the United Arab Emirates, so a well-formed postal code is never confirmed to exist — only its shape is checked, and postcode_not_found is never answered for the United Arab Emirates.
What the United Arab Emirates calls an address that is not a front door
A PO box, a private mailbox and the other kinds of delivery point below are told apart by the words written on the address, never by a list of whose box is whose. The rows marked as the operator's own words are taken from the addressing guide of the postal operator in the United Arab Emirates; the others are international spellings, not the operator's own. All of them are what the checker reads, and because an entry is carried for the United Arab Emirates, an address here with none of them answers street.
| address_type | written as |
|---|---|
| private_mailbox Private mailbox at a mail-receiving agency | PMBinternational spellings the checker also reads |
| po_box Post-office box | PO BOX, P O BOX, POST BOXthe operator's own words |
| general_delivery Held at the counter for collection | POSTE RESTANTE, GENERAL DELIVERYinternational spellings the checker also reads |
A post-office box is the ordinary way to receive mail in the United Arab Emirates, so a box here carries no risk weight at all. Scoring it would penalise almost every address in the country for being addressed the way the country addresses things.
What can be checked for an address in the United Arab Emirates
Read from the datasets this server holds right now, not written into the page. For most countries the answer is the written form and the postcode shape and nothing beyond them — in particular not the row people assume is always there.
| check | for AE | what the answer means |
|---|---|---|
| Written form | yes | The address is split into the country's own parts and rewritten in the order above. A missing required part is named in one typed reason rather than a general failure. |
| postal code pattern | not used here | The United Arab Emirates has no postal code in the table, so nothing is checked and nothing is held against an address for lacking one. |
| postal code exists | no | No directory is installed for the United Arab Emirates, so a well-formed postal code is never confirmed or denied — only its shape is checked. |
| Kind of delivery point | yes | The operator's own box words are carried for the United Arab Emirates, so an address with no marker answers street rather than unknown. |
| Street exists | no | No register is installed for the United Arab Emirates, so a street is neither confirmed nor denied: match_level answers null. |
| Building exists | no | No address register is installed for the United Arab Emirates, so exists answers null: not evaluated, never no. Absence is not evidence here. |
| Companies at the address | no | No open company register is installed for the United Arab Emirates, so companies_registered answers null and no mail-drop conclusion is drawn from a count. |
| Known mailbox branch | no | No operator branch list covers the United Arab Emirates, so is_mail_drop is never set from one here. |
| Post actually arrives | no | Not from this page, and not from open data in any country: whether post is delivered, and the vacant, residential and agency flags that go with it, are the postal service's own licensed product. Those fields answer deliverability_checked: false rather than a guess. |
Null means not evaluated, never no.
Other countries
Sources
- Google's Address Data Service · address-formats 2026-09-05© Google LLC, CC BY 4.0 (Google Address Data Service); initial import via commerceguys/addressing (MIT)
- The postal operators' addressing guides · address-rules 2026-09-17
Data synced on 2026-09-17: the newest version among the datasets listed above.
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