Handling address related information for different countries

Hi,
We are trying to understand the best way to display / query address related information (while designing internationalization for our application) - from users based on their locale - for example we would need to ask zip code - if the user is in US, in UK it would be postal code , there would be counties in UK but not in India etc . Is there some guideline / frame work for designing address related forms for international applications?
Thanks in Advance for your help !!

The problem is that you need different pieces of information for different countries, and they need to be in a different order. Some information is required for some countries, some information does not exist for some countries, and the content for certain pieces of information is different for some countries.
If you are not going to do any kind of verification of the information (zip code, for instance), and also not check whether the field is filled in at all, then it doesn't matter if you have separate fields.
There are 3 choices:
1. Implement correct addresses for every single country in the world
2. Implement correct addresses for a few select countries, and then state clearly that you only support those countries
3. Treat an address as a single piece of information
Good luck with #1.

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