**European Economic Area (EEA) developers**

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This page shows you requests and responses to retrieve an address for a place ID.

## Required parameters

- `place_id` --- The place ID of the place for which you wish to obtain the human-readable address. The place ID is a unique identifier that can be used with other Google APIs. For example, you can use the `placeID` returned by the [Roads API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/roads/snap.md.txt) to get the address for a snapped point. For more information about place IDs, see the [place ID overview](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-id.md.txt)..
- `key` --- Your application's API key. This key identifies your application for purposes of quota management. Learn how to [get a key](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/guides-v3/get-api-key.md.txt).

The optional parameters are the same as those for
[reverse geocoding](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/requests-reverse-geocoding).

The following query contains the place ID of a place in Brooklyn:

    https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?place_id=ChIJd8BlQ2BZwokRAFUEcm_qrcA
    &key=YOUR_API_KEY

The above query returns the following result:

    {
       "results" : [
          {
             "address_components" : [
                {
                   "long_name" : "277",
                   "short_name" : "277",
                   "types" : [ "street_number" ]
                },
                {
                   "long_name" : "Bedford Avenue",
                   "short_name" : "Bedford Ave",
                   "types" : [ "route" ]
                },
                {
                   "long_name" : "Williamsburg",
                   "short_name" : "Williamsburg",
                   "types" : [ "neighborhood", "political" ]
                },
                {
                   "long_name" : "Brooklyn",
                   "short_name" : "Brooklyn",
                   "types" : [ "political", "sublocality", "sublocality_level_1" ]
                },
                {
                   "long_name" : "Kings County",
                   "short_name" : "Kings County",
                   "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
                },
                {
                   "long_name" : "New York",
                   "short_name" : "NY",
                   "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
                },
                {
                   "long_name" : "United States",
                   "short_name" : "US",
                   "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
                },
                {
                   "long_name" : "11211",
                   "short_name" : "11211",
                   "types" : [ "postal_code" ]
                }
             ],
             "formatted_address" : "277 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA",
             "geometry" : {
                "location" : {
                   "lat" : 40.7142205,
                   "lng" : -73.9612903
                },
                "location_type" : "ROOFTOP",
                "viewport" : {
                   "northeast" : {
                      "lat" : 40.71556948029149,
                      "lng" : -73.95994131970849
                   },
                   "southwest" : {
                      "lat" : 40.7128715197085,
                      "lng" : -73.9626392802915
                   }
                }
             },
             "place_id" : "ChIJd8BlQ2BZwokRAFUEcm_qrcA",
             "types" : [ "street_address" ]
          }
       ],
       "status" : "OK"
    }

For a description of the fields in the response, see
[Geocoding responses](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/requests-geocoding#responses).