Editing Address (section)

{{Short description|Collection of information that describes the location of a building, apartment, or other structure}}
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[[File:Lit up address.webp|thumb|Illuminated address to see better at night]]
An '''address''' is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used to give the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using [[border|political boundaries]] and [[street name]]s as references, along with other identifiers such as [[house number|house]] or apartment numbers and organization name. Some addresses also contain special codes, such as a [[postal code]], to make identification easier and aid in the routing of [[mail]].

Addresses provide a means of physically locating a building.  They are used in identifying buildings as the end points of a [[Mail|postal system]] and as parameters in statistics collection, especially in [[census]]-taking and the [[insurance]] industry. Address formats are different in different places, and unlike latitude and longitude coordinates, there is no simple mapping from an address to a location.