Postal-place testing - limited source coverage

South Africa Address Generator

South African test records using source postal places and four-digit postal codes. Postal-prefix groups replace an unsupported province selector because this export lacks province names.

GeoNames postal-place sample with a synthetic street. Limited source coverage; not delivery-verified.

South Africa Address Format

The South African layout puts the street line above the locality or post-office name and places the four-digit postcode on its own line. Leading zeroes matter. A postcode can relate to a street-delivery or postal-box context; the source used here does not establish which applies to the invented street.

250 Test Street
Atteridgeville
0008
SOUTH AFRICA

Synthetic format example, not a delivery address. The street or box line is generated test data.

UPU South Africa addressing reference. This reference documents postal layouts, not the validity of generated addresses.

South Africa Source Coverage

Retained source rows: 3,920
Locality labels by area: 1,145
Covered source groups: 95

The GeoNames postal export does not supply province relationships for these records. The two-digit filter is derived only from the postal string and is not an official province boundary. It is excluded from the formatted postal block. The tool is not the South African Post Office street-address directory.

Included postal prefix groups

Postal prefix 00: 96 source rows
Postal prefix 01: 122 source rows
Postal prefix 02: 55 source rows
Postal prefix 03: 83 source rows
Postal prefix 04: 101 source rows
Postal prefix 05: 33 source rows
Postal prefix 06: 58 source rows
Postal prefix 07: 118 source rows
Postal prefix 08: 85 source rows
Postal prefix 09: 81 source rows
Postal prefix 10: 81 source rows
Postal prefix 11: 24 source rows
Postal prefix 12: 56 source rows
Postal prefix 13: 55 source rows
Postal prefix 14: 103 source rows
Postal prefix 15: 70 source rows
Postal prefix 16: 52 source rows
Postal prefix 17: 82 source rows
Postal prefix 18: 69 source rows
Postal prefix 19: 60 source rows
Postal prefix 20: 93 source rows
Postal prefix 21: 103 source rows
Postal prefix 22: 28 source rows
Postal prefix 23: 37 source rows
Postal prefix 24: 21 source rows
Postal prefix 25: 50 source rows
Postal prefix 26: 18 source rows
Postal prefix 27: 51 source rows
Postal prefix 28: 41 source rows
Postal prefix 29: 17 source rows
Postal prefix 30: 17 source rows
Postal prefix 31: 24 source rows
Postal prefix 32: 97 source rows
Postal prefix 33: 38 source rows
Postal prefix 35: 1 source rows
Postal prefix 36: 52 source rows
Postal prefix 37: 12 source rows
Postal prefix 38: 37 source rows
Postal prefix 39: 46 source rows
Postal prefix 40: 99 source rows
Postal prefix 41: 62 source rows
Postal prefix 42: 39 source rows
Postal prefix 43: 37 source rows
Postal prefix 44: 29 source rows
Postal prefix 46: 13 source rows
Postal prefix 47: 31 source rows
Postal prefix 48: 15 source rows
Postal prefix 49: 16 source rows
Postal prefix 50: 56 source rows
Postal prefix 51: 50 source rows
Postal prefix 52: 44 source rows
Postal prefix 53: 21 source rows
Postal prefix 54: 24 source rows
Postal prefix 55: 1 source rows
Postal prefix 56: 21 source rows
Postal prefix 57: 12 source rows
Postal prefix 58: 14 source rows
Postal prefix 59: 5 source rows
Postal prefix 60: 45 source rows
Postal prefix 61: 36 source rows
Postal prefix 62: 38 source rows
Postal prefix 63: 21 source rows
Postal prefix 64: 14 source rows
Postal prefix 65: 36 source rows
Postal prefix 66: 37 source rows
Postal prefix 67: 9 source rows
Postal prefix 68: 31 source rows
Postal prefix 69: 10 source rows
Postal prefix 70: 6 source rows
Postal prefix 71: 31 source rows
Postal prefix 72: 19 source rows
Postal prefix 73: 39 source rows
Postal prefix 74: 61 source rows
Postal prefix 75: 37 source rows
Postal prefix 76: 34 source rows
Postal prefix 77: 71 source rows
Postal prefix 78: 22 source rows
Postal prefix 79: 43 source rows
Postal prefix 80: 24 source rows
Postal prefix 81: 21 source rows
Postal prefix 82: 27 source rows
Postal prefix 83: 23 source rows
Postal prefix 84: 22 source rows
Postal prefix 85: 31 source rows
Postal prefix 86: 27 source rows
Postal prefix 87: 16 source rows
Postal prefix 88: 23 source rows
Postal prefix 89: 6 source rows
Postal prefix 93: 38 source rows
Postal prefix 94: 45 source rows
Postal prefix 95: 12 source rows
Postal prefix 96: 12 source rows
Postal prefix 97: 49 source rows
Postal prefix 98: 24 source rows
Postal prefix 99: 24 source rows

Counts describe this imported subset, not a national completeness percentage. A locality label may occur in more than one source group. Exact duplicates are removed; unsupported or inconsistent records are omitted, not repaired with guessed geography.

South Africa Form-Testing Cases

South African fixtures are useful for four-character postal fields, leading-zero preservation and systems that need to keep source postal labels separate from province choices. They do not verify a particular street's delivery code. Do not infer a province or mailbox assignment merely from the synthetic address.

Generated records are for development, QA and demonstrations. They must not be used for mail delivery, identity checks, account verification or proof of residence. A synthetic result can coincidentally resemble an existing address; it is not guaranteed to be nonexistent.

Data and Attribution

Geographic data: GeoNames ZA postal export, reused under CC BY 4.0. Downloaded 2026-09-05. The source provides no guarantee of accuracy, timeliness or completeness.

Postal-place relationships are retained from individual source rows, without mixing localities and codes independently. Coordinates, population figures and unrelated gazetteer fields are not included in the browser data.

Cleaning rules and source limitations

South Africa Address FAQ

Why is a postal prefix shown instead of a province?

Province names are missing from this source. The generator exposes a truthful grouping of postal codes rather than guessing provincial geography or printing an internal code as a province abbreviation.

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