Thai addressing is not much different from addressing in other countries. It starts from the smallest unit to the largest unit and may end with postal code. The general format will be as the following:

• House part
• Road part
• Sub-district part
• District part
• Province & Postal Code part
• Country (Thailand)

This part is the most vary that is has some different details & optionally contains with building, village.

House Number

The number is a house or room number which can be in the following formats:

<number>: e.g. 122, 123, 124
<village number>/<house number>: e.g. 15/201, 15/202, 15/203
<number> <Thai character>: e.g. 101 ก., 102 ก.

Building and floor

This is usually used with apartment, condominium, office building

Village Name

Many modern real estate development projects, each may has tens or hundreds of house, set the project name and become the village’s name. Although this name is not officially in the administrative division of Thailand you can used it to speicify your address in more details.

e.g. Sweet Moon village

Moo [หมู่, H̄mū̀]

Moo is a number used to indicate a small area officially specified in your house registration book issued by the government. The number is used to group houses in small area in the same village or on the same street.

e.g. Moo 5, Moo 3/10

Soi

Soi means alley. Most alley in Thailand is referenced by its main road’s name with running number. Alleys with odd number on one side of the road and even number on the other side. The more the alley is near to the center of a city the more it has smaller number. So the number decreases when you go inbound and increase when you go outbound.

e.g.: Soi Sukhumvit 85

e.g.: Soi Petchksem 30

When new alleys were built between the two old alleys, the ‘/’ (slash) with number was added to each name referenced to one of the old alley.

e.g.: If two new alley were added between Sukumvit 30 and Sukhumvit 32, remember even number on the same side, the new alley might be named as

Sukhumvit 30/1 and Sukhumvit 30/2

Road

Road means the main road.

e.g. Sukhumvit Rd

Sometime you can combine the Road and Soi parts together if they have the same name.

e.g. “Soi Sukhumvit 85, Sukhumvit Road” can become “Sukhumvit 85 Rd”.

e.g. “Soi Petchkasem 80, Petchkasem Road” can become “Petchkasem 80 Rd”

Sub district [ตำบล, Tumbol] is a sub division of district [อำเภอ, Ampur]

e.g. Tumbol Bang Sao Thong

District [อำเภอ, Ampur] is a sub-division of a province [จังหวัด, Changwat].

e.g. Ampur Mueang

Province [จังหวัด, Changwat] is the biggest division part in Thai addressing.

Province Name

Name of the province.

Postal Code (Zip Code):

Thailand postal code contains 5 digits. Each province, except Bangkok, has its own postal code in addressing. Bangkok is the special administrative region that each district has different postal code.

e.g. Bangkok 10110

Full Address Example

1001/50
Soi Phrachsonkro 11, Dindang Road
Dindaeng, Dindaeng
Bangkok 10400

(Note that in this example the Dindaeng district also has one of its sub-districts named as Dindaeng)

You can omit it if you are already in Thailand.