# International Address Generates an address-like string to replace either: * For a Canadian postal address: * Street name * Postal code * For a United Kingdom (UK) mailing address: * City * County * District * Country * Postal code To replace a Canadian postal code: * The generator selects a real postal code that starts with the same three digits - has the same Forward Sortation Area (FSA) - as the original postal code, but that has a different Local Delivery Unit (LDU). * For a postal code whose FSA is not on the list that the generator uses, you can provide a fallback value to use. To replace a UK address components, the generator selects real values. ## Characteristics


Consistency	Yes, can be made self-consistent.
Linking	No, cannot be linked.
Differential privacy	Yes, if consistency is not enabled.
Data-free	Yes, if consistency is not enabled.
Allowed for primary keys	No
Allowed for unique columns	No
Uses format-preserving encryption (FPE)	No
Privacy ranking	1 if not consistent 4 if consistent
Generator ID (for the API)	`InternationalAddressGenerator`

## How to configure To configure the generator: 1. From the **Generator Type** dropdown list, select International Address. 2. From the **Country** dropdown list, select the country (Canada or United Kingdom). 3. From the **Address Component** dropdown list, select the address component that this column contains.\ \ For Canada, the available options are: * Street Name * Postal Code \ For the UK, the available options are: * Postal code * City * County * District * Country 4. For a Canadian postal code, in the **Fallback Value** field, type the FSA to use if the value in the data does not exist.\ \ For example, the FSA in the data might be new and not yet in the list that Structural uses, or the FSA might be invalid.\ \ By default, the fallback value is `NULL`, meaning that in the destination data, the postal code value is the string literal "NULL". 5. Toggle the **Consistency** setting to indicate whether to make the column self-consistent.\ \ By default, consistency is disabled. 6. When consistency is enabled, use the **Case-sensitive** toggle to indicate whether the consistency is case-sensitive.\ \ By default, consistency is case-sensitive. For example, the values `Anytown` and `ANYTOWN` are considered different values. `Anytown` might always be replaced with `London`, and `ANYTOWN` might be replaced with `Bristol`.\ \ To make the consistency case-insensitive, toggle **Case-sensitive** to the off position. When the consistency is case-insensitive, `Anytown` and `ANYTOWN` are considered the same value and have the same replacement. 7. If [Structural data encryption](/app/generation/generators-assign-config/generators-data-encryption-config.md) is enabled, then to use it for this column, in the advanced options section, toggle **Use data encryption process** to the on position. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.tonic.ai/app/generation/generators/generator-reference/international-address.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.