An address expressed using postal conventions (as opposed to GPS or other location definition formats). This data type may be used to convey addresses for use in delivering mail as well as for visiting locations which might not be valid for mail delivery. There are a variety of postal address formats defined around the world.

Note: address is intended to describe postal addresses for administrative purposes, not to describe absolute geographical coordinates. Postal addresses are often used as proxies for physical locations (also see the Location resource).

Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.

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The purpose of this address.

Allows an appropriate address to be chosen from a list of many.

Applications can assume that an address is current unless it explicitly says that it is temporary or old.

Distinguishes between physical addresses (those you can visit) and mailing addresses (e.g. PO Boxes and care-of addresses). Most addresses are both.

The definition of Address states that "address is intended to describe postal addresses, not physical locations". However, many applications track whether an address has a dual purpose of being a location that can be visited as well as being a valid delivery destination, and Postal addresses are often used as proxies for physical locations (also see the Location resource).

Specifies the entire address as it should be displayed e.g. on a postal label. This may be provided instead of or as well as the specific parts.

A renderable, unencoded form.

Can provide both a text representation and parts. Applications updating an address SHALL ensure that when both text and parts are present, no content is included in the text that isn't found in a part.

This component contains the house number, apartment number, street name, street direction, P.O. Box number, delivery hints, and similar address information.

The name of the city, town, suburb, village or other community or delivery center.

Mongolia has a three leveled division of administrative areas. Including city would have caused ambiguity since the 'city' level is also refered to as district or municipal district while we use district as a primary secondary level.

Second level administative area, called soum, of which there are 329. The city element is also used for a municipal district within Ulaanbataar, called düüreg, of which there are 9.

Mongolia has a three leveled division of administrative areas. Including district would have caused ambiguity since the 'city' level is also refered to as district or municipal district.

Note: Many soum centers have different official names than that of the soum itself; however this official name is not always known by the locals.

First level administrative division, called aimag, of which there are 21. The capital city Ulaanbataar is a special case of a first level division.

The country of Mongolia is divided into 21 provinces and the capital Ulaanbaatar.

A postal code designating a region defined by the postal service.

Country - a nation as commonly understood or generally accepted.

ISO 3166 3 letter codes can be used in place of a human readable country name.

Time period when address was/is in use.

Allows addresses to be placed in historical context.