Random Address Generator

The Random Address Generator makes fake street addresses for 41 countries. Choose a country from the dropdown (the United States is selected by default), enter how many you want from 1 to 15, and press Generate Address. Each result is a single line with a street address, a city, a state or region and a postal code, followed by the country name, on a card with a copy button. It is the general-purpose version of the site's country-specific address pages and the one to use when you need rows from several countries in a row.

Countries you can choose

Arabic (generic), Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam are all in the list, plus a few more. The dropdown is alphabetical.

What the addresses look like

Every address follows the same order regardless of country: street, city, region postcode, country. The individual pieces come from the Faker library's locale data, so the flavor changes with the country while the layout stays put. A few real examples from the tool:

• United States: 42650 Thompson Cove, West Valley City, Georgia 07950-6260, United States
• India: 7186 Jagmeet Lakes, Mesa, Uttar Pradesh 484 709, India
• Japan: 756 佐々木 Cove, 東 樹, 千葉県 892-0068, Japan
• Germany: 0701 Linden Heights, Nord Finjadorf, Niedersachsen 11919, Germany
• Australia: 4676 Benjamin Terrace, South Amyberg, Queensland 7709, Australia

What is localized: the region names (US states, Indian states and union territories, Japanese prefectures, German Bundesländer, Australian states), the postcode format (five digits plus an optional ZIP+4 for the US, three-plus-three for India, NNN-NNNN for Japan, four digits for Australia), and the name pools that street and city names are built from. What is not localized: the word order, which is always the American one with the house number first, and the street and city names themselves, which are invented from surnames and first names rather than taken from a gazetteer. A few locales in the library are incomplete and fall back to English pieces; the United Kingdom, for example, gets a UK-style postcode but American state names.

None of the addresses exist. The postcode is not checked against the city or region, so a validator that cross-references the two will reject most results. For that kind of testing, the country-specific pages are no better; this is a limitation of generated data in general.

Ways people use it

• Seeding test databases with an international spread of customers. Fifteen per country per click adds up quickly, and each card copies as a single line that pastes into a spreadsheet cell.
• Checking form fields for width and character support. Japanese and Chinese addresses will surface any font or encoding problem, and Baden-Württemberg tests umlaut handling.
• Placeholder text in mockups and demos where a real person's address must not appear.
• Fiction and worldbuilding that needs a plausible-sounding street in a real region without borrowing an actual one.

When to use a country page instead

The country pages use the same engine, so the output is the same. Use them when you always need one country and want the page to remember that, or when you need the format notes for that country's postal system. The France, Australia, Canada, Mexico and Chile pages are the most visited. Everything, including postcode tools, is listed under all address & postal code generators.