N4 Geographic Location

To specify the geographic place of the named party

Position: N4-01 · Element: 19 · Name: City Name · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 2 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Free-form text for city name

A combination of either N401 through N404, or N405 and N406 may be adequate to specify a location.

Position: N4-02 · Element: 156 · Name: State or Province Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 2 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code specifying the Standard State/Province as defined by appropriate government agency

E0207: Only one of N4-02 or N4-07 may be present

Position: N4-03 · Element: 116 · Name: Postal Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 3 · Max: 15 · Repeat: 1

Code specifying international postal zone code excluding punctuation and blanks (zip code for United States)

E0308: Only one of N4-03 or N4-08 may be present

N403 contains the postal code in an unstructured format. N408 contains the postal code in a structured format. When a postal code data field is used, the parties shall agree as to which data element (N403 or N408) shall be used in the transaction set.

Position: N4-04 · Element: 26 · Name: Country Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 2 · Max: 3 · Repeat: 1

Code identifying the country

Position: N4-05 · Element: 309 · Name: Location Qualifier · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 1 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code identifying type of location

Position: N4-06 · Element: 310 · Name: Location Identifier · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Code which identifies a specific location

C0605: If N4-06 is present, then N4-05 is required

Position: N4-07 · Element: 1715 · Name: Country Subdivision Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 1 · Max: 3 · Repeat: 1

Code identifying the country subdivision

C0704: If N4-07 is present, then N4-04 is required

Position: N4-08 · Element: 1702 · Name: Postal Code-Formatted · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 3 · Max: 20 · Repeat: 1

A postal code value including punctuation, blanks and other characters as defined by the postal authority