Glossary

Administrative divisions

Below you find a list of all administrative divisions used in the API and what they represent in each country.

String	SE	NO	FI	DK
adm1	Län (county)	Fylke (county)	Maakunta (county)	Region (region)
adm2	Kommun (municipality)	Kommune (municipality)	Kunta (municipality)	Kommune (municipality)
adm3	Församling (parish)	Sogn (parish)	N/A	Sogne (parish)
adm4	Distrikt (district)	N/A	Seutukunta (district)	N/A
adm5	Församling 2015 (parish 2015)	N/A	N/A	N/A

Address types

Below you find a list of all address type codes that can be used as a value in the address_type parameter.

Code	Description
NA	Location address - General
NB	Location address - City
NC	Location address - Rural
BA	PO Box address - General
BB	PO Box address - Main operator
BC	PO Box address - Other operator
BD	Large customer address - Organisation with their own postal code
BE	PO Box address - Package dispenser
AA	Administrative address - General
AB	Administrative address - Internal address
AC	Administrative address - Competition mail (tävlingspost)
AD	Administrative address - Reply mail (svarspost/frisvar/svarsförsändelser)
XX	Any other address that has not been classified

Response codes

General status codes

Code	Message
200	OK
300	Multiple suggestions
302	Single match
303	See additional response objects
400	Bad request
401	Unauthorized
403	Forbidden
404	Not found
501	Internal error

Validate address address status codes

Code	Message
11	Address is correct
12	Address is incorrect - address has been corrected
13	Address is incorrect - no suggestions could be found
14	Address is incorrect - alternative suggestions
15	Address is partly incorrect - address had minor errors that were corrected
16	Address is incorrect - Too many suggestions to display
131	Number of suggestions are too many to display
200	Street address is missing
201	Unknown format for the street address
202	Street address had misspellings, errors or was incorrect
203	Street address contains abbreviations
204	Street address had minor errors that were corrected
208	Street address is a post office box
209	Both street address and post office box address included in the same field
298	Street address is OK with strict check
299	Street address is OK
250	Missing street number
251	Invalid format for the street number
252	Incorrect street number
253	Street number not applicable on the given address
256	Postal box address was missing a postal box number
257	Postal box address had a postal box number we couldn't validate
258	Couldn't validate postal box address
259	Street number is OK
260	Missing letter in the street number
261	Unknown format for letter in street number
262	Incorrect letter in street number
263	Letter not applicable on the street number for the given address
269	Letter in the street number are OK
270	Secondary street number is missing
271	Unknown format for the secondary street number
272	Incorrect secondary street number
273	Secondary street number cannot be applied to the given address
279	Secondary street number is OK
280	Floor/entry missing
281	Unknown format for floor/entry
282	Incorrect floor/entry
283	Floor/entry inapplicable for given address
289	Floor/entry OK
300	Postal code is missing
301	Unknown format for the postal code
302	Postal code is incorrect
306	Postal code is incomplete
307	Customer specific postal code
308	Postal code includes country prefix
399	Postal code is OK
400	Locality is missing
401	Unknown format for locality
402	Incorrect locality
403	Locality had abbreviations
404	Locality had minor errors that were corrected
499	Locality is OK
503	Street address does not exist in the given postal code
504	Street address does not exist in the given locality
505	Street address does not exist in neither given locality nor postal code
512	Postal code does not exist in the given locality
513	Street address exists in the given postal code
514	Street address exists in the given locality
515	Street address exists in both given postal code and locality
522	Postal code exists in the given locality
613	Historical change