Every compound in Togo now has a code

In Togo a delivery often ends with a phone call: “After the pharmacy, the third gate past the kiosk.” From 20 October 2026, every compound in the country, every cour, villa and house, has an N-Ways code: 2,768,053 of them, from Lomé to Dapaong and from Aného to Bassar.

What a code is

A code is the name of your quartier, village or canton and a short number, said in pairs like a phone number. Fréau-Jardin 10 58, beside Lomé’s Grand Marché, is said “Fréau-Jardin, ten, fifty-eight”. Other real codes: Souza-Nétimé 29 22 in Bè, Zongo 1 41 98 in Kara, Fiakomé 20 28 in Kpalimé, Gnagna 11 02 in Atakpamé, Sokodé 1 41 08. The number has four digits, five in the bigger places. The name in the code is never longer than 12 characters and two words: Adjahun Fiagbe is simply Fiagbe, and the full name still works when typed.

The code belongs to the whole compound and leads to its gate, not to the middle of a roof. A cour with several houses, a kitchen and rooms for rent has one code.

In Lomé, the official address comes first

Lomé’s streets have names and codes since 1997, like “Rue Mission Tové” or “165 AMT”, and the District Autonome du Grand Lomé is numbering the entrances of the whole agglomeration. Where the State gives an address, it stays the official address, written as the State writes it, and N-Ways shows it first: the street today, the DAGL’s entrance address as soon as it is released. The N-Ways code sits beside it, to say on the phone and to tell apart the households of a cour that share one gate.

One code, one place, in the whole country

Many names repeat: six places are called Lom-Nava, three Kamina and three Tokpo. So every place with the same name shares one national range of numbers, one block each. Tokpo 11 00 is in Danyi and Tokpo 24 17 in the Lacs, and neither needs its préfecture after it. Spellings fold together too: Djanta Copé and Djanta kopé, Lom-Nava and Lom Nava are one name.

On a plate, a parcel or a form it is written simply Fréau-Jardin 10 58. There is nothing else to remember.

How to get yours

Open N-Ways at home and tap Get my code. The app finds the compound you are in and shows its code.
Not at home? Find your compound on the map and tap it, or drop a pin on it.
Share it in one tap, on WhatsApp or by text. Paint it on the gate if you like.

Every code starts provisional and becomes confirmed when the people who live there agree in the app that it is right. A house too new to be on the map gets a code on the spot. Codes never change and are never given to another home.

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A code for any spot

Every spot in Togo also has a short spot code that works offline, a cell of about three metres: FRJ-54-4R for Fréau-Jardin 10 58. It serves a stall at Hédzranawoé market, a field in the Plateaux or a breakdown on the national road.

What a code is not

Not a land title. It proves neither ownership nor the right to occupy a plot, and replaces neither the titre foncier nor a surveyor’s plan.
Not a postcode. La Poste’s P.O. box and Lomé’s street codes stay what they are.
Not about people. A code describes a place. No names of residents are stored with it.

Open for developers

The model, the engine and the registry of every code are open on GitHub. Couriers, banks, shops and public services can decode codes in their own systems, offline if they need to. The research paper explains every rule, with the mathematics behind it.