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Azure Maps geocoding coverage

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The Search service supports geocoding, which means that your API request can have search terms, like an address or the name of a place, and returns the result as latitude and longitude coordinates. For example, [Get Search Address] receives queries that contain location information, and returns results as latitude and longitude coordinates.

However, the Search service doesn't have the same level of information and accuracy for all countries/regions. Use this article to determine what kind of locations you can reliably search for in each region.

The ability to geocode in a country/region is dependent upon the road data coverage and geocoding precision of the geocoding service. The following categorizations are used to specify the level of geocoding support in each country/region.

  • Address points - Address data can be resolved to latitude/longitude coordinates within the address parcel (property boundary). Address points are often referred to as being 'Rooftop' accurate, which is the highest level of accuracy available for addresses.
  • House numbers - Addresses are interpolated to a latitude/longitude coordinate on the street.
  • Street level - Addresses are resolved to the latitude/longitude coordinate of the street that contains the address. The house number may not be processed.
  • City level - City place names are supported.

Americas

Country/Region Address points House numbers Street level City level Points of interest
Anguilla ✓ ✓
Antigua & Barbuda ✓ ✓ ✓
Argentina ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Aruba ✓ ✓
Bahamas ✓ ✓ ✓
Barbados ✓ ✓ ✓
Belize ✓ ✓ ✓
Bermuda ✓ ✓ ✓
Bolivia ✓ ✓ ✓
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, & Saba ✓ ✓
Brazil ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
British Virgin Islands ✓ ✓
Canada ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Cayman Islands ✓ ✓ ✓
Chile ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Clipperton Island ✓ ✓
Colombia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Costa Rica ✓ ✓ ✓
Cuba ✓ ✓ ✓
Curaçao ✓ ✓
Dominica ✓ ✓ ✓
Dominican Republic ✓ ✓ ✓
Ecuador ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
El Salvador ✓ ✓ ✓
Falkland Islands ✓ ✓
French Guiana ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Greenland ✓ ✓
Grenada ✓ ✓ ✓
Guadeloupe ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Guatemala ✓ ✓ ✓
Guyana ✓ ✓ ✓
Haiti ✓ ✓ ✓
Honduras ✓ ✓ ✓
Jamaica ✓ ✓ ✓
Martinique ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Mexico ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Montserrat ✓ ✓
Nicaragua ✓ ✓ ✓
Panama ✓ ✓ ✓
Paraguay ✓ ✓ ✓
Peru ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Puerto Rico ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Saint Barthélemy ✓ ✓ ✓
Saint Kitts & Nevis ✓ ✓ ✓
Saint Lucia ✓ ✓
Saint Martin ✓ ✓ ✓
Saint Pierre & Miquelon ✓ ✓ ✓
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines ✓ ✓
Sint Maarten ✓ ✓ ✓
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands ✓ ✓
Suriname ✓ ✓ ✓
Trinidad & Tobago ✓ ✓ ✓
Turks & Caicos Islands ✓ ✓
U.S. Outlying Islands ✓ ✓
U.S. Virgin Islands ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
United States ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Uruguay ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Venezuela ✓ ✓ ✓

Asia Pacific

Country/Region Address points House numbers Street level City level Points of interest
American Samoa ✓ ✓ ✓
Australia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Bangladesh ✓ ✓
Bhutan ✓ ✓
Brunei ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Cambodia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
China ✓ ✓
Christmas Island ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Cocos (Keeling) Islands ✓ ✓ ✓
Comoros ✓ ✓
Cook Islands ✓ ✓
Fiji ✓ ✓ ✓
French Polynesia ✓ ✓ ✓
Guam ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Heard Island & McDonald Islands ✓ ✓
Hong Kong SAR ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
India ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Indonesia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Japan ✓ ✓
Kiribati ✓ ✓
Laos ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Macao SAR ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Malaysia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Maldives ✓ ✓
Myanmar ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Micronesia ✓ ✓
Mongolia ✓ ✓
Nauru ✓ ✓
Nepal ✓ ✓
New Caledonia ✓ ✓
New Zealand ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Niue ✓ ✓
Norfolk Island ✓ ✓ ✓
North Korea ✓ ✓
Northern Mariana Islands ✓ ✓ ✓
Pakistan ✓ ✓
Palau ✓ ✓
Papua New Guinea ✓ ✓
Philippines ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Pitcairn Islands ✓ ✓
Samoa ✓ ✓
Singapore ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Solomon Islands ✓ ✓
South Korea ✓ ✓
Sri Lanka ✓ ✓
Taiwan ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Thailand ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Timor-Leste ✓ ✓
Tokelau ✓ ✓
Tonga ✓ ✓
Turks & Caicos Islands ✓ ✓
Tuvalu ✓ ✓
Vanuatu ✓ ✓
Vietnam ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Wallis & Futuna ✓ ✓

Europe

Country/Region Address points House numbers Street level City level Points of interest
Albania ✓ ✓ ✓
Andorra ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Armenia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Austria ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Azerbaijan ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Belarus ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Belgium ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Bosnia & Herzegovina ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Bulgaria ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Croatia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Cyprus ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Czech Republic ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Denmark ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Estonia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Faroe Islands ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Finland ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
France ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Georgia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Germany ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Gibraltar ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Greece ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Guernsey ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Hungary ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Iceland ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ireland ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Isle of Man ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Italy ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Jan Mayen ✓ ✓
Jersey ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Kazakhstan ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Kosovo ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Kyrgyzstan ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Latvia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Liechtenstein ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Lithuania ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Luxembourg ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Malta ✓ ✓ ✓
Moldova ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Monaco ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Montenegro ✓ ✓ ✓
Netherlands ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
North Macedonia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Norway ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Poland ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Portugal ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Romania ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Russia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
San Marino ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Serbia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Slovakia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Slovenia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Spain ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Svalbard ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Sweden ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Switzerland ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Tajikistan ✓ ✓ ✓
Türkiye ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Turkmenistan ✓ ✓
Ukraine ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
United Kingdom ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Uzbekistan ✓ ✓
Vatican City ✓ ✓ ✓

Middle East & Africa

Country/Region Address points House numbers Street level City level Points of interest
Afghanistan ✓ ✓
Algeria ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Angola ✓ ✓ ✓
Bahrain ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Benin ✓ ✓ ✓
Botswana ✓ ✓ ✓
Bouvet Island ✓ ✓
Burkina Faso ✓ ✓ ✓
Burundi ✓ ✓ ✓
Cameroon ✓ ✓ ✓
Cape Verde ✓ ✓ ✓
Central African Republic ✓ ✓ ✓
Chad ✓ ✓
Congo ✓ ✓
Congo (DRC) ✓ ✓ ✓
Côte d'Ivoire ✓ ✓ ✓
Djibouti ✓ ✓ ✓
Egypt ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Equatorial Guinea ✓ ✓
Eritrea ✓ ✓
Ethiopia ✓ ✓ ✓
French Southern Territories ✓ ✓
Gabon ✓ ✓ ✓
Gambia ✓ ✓ ✓
Ghana ✓ ✓ ✓
Guinea ✓ ✓ ✓
Guinea-Bissau ✓ ✓ ✓
Iran ✓ ✓
Iraq ✓ ✓ ✓
Israel ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Jordan ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Kenya ✓ ✓ ✓
Kuwait ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Lebanon ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Lesotho ✓ ✓ ✓
Liberia ✓ ✓
Libya ✓ ✓
Madagascar ✓ ✓ ✓
Malawi ✓ ✓ ✓
Mali ✓ ✓
Mauritania ✓ ✓
Mauritius ✓ ✓ ✓
Mayotte ✓ ✓ ✓
Morocco ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Mozambique ✓ ✓ ✓
Namibia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Niger ✓ ✓
Nigeria ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Oman ✓ ✓ ✓
Qatar ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Réunion ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Rwanda ✓ ✓ ✓
Saint Helena ✓ ✓
São Tomé & Príncipe ✓ ✓ ✓
Saudi Arabia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Senegal ✓ ✓ ✓
Seychelles ✓ ✓ ✓
Sierra Leone ✓ ✓ ✓
Somalia ✓ ✓
South Africa ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
South Sudan ✓ ✓
Sudan ✓ ✓
Syria ✓ ✓
Tanzania ✓ ✓ ✓
Togo ✓ ✓ ✓
Tunisia ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Uganda ✓ ✓ ✓
United Arab Emirates ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Yemen ✓ ✓
Zambia ✓ ✓ ✓
Zimbabwe ✓ ✓ ✓

Next steps

Learn more about Azure Maps geocoding:

Azure Maps Search service