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# MKPlacemark

A user-friendly description of a location on the map.

```
class MKPlacemark
```

## Overview

Placemark data includes information like the country or region, state, city, and street address associated with the specified coordinate. A placemark is a concrete annotation object and conforms to the [`MKAnnotation`](/documentation/MapKit/MKAnnotation) protocol. Because it’s an annotation, you can add a placemark directly to the map view’s list of annotations.

## Topics

### Creating a placemark object

[`-  initWithCoordinate:`](/documentation/MapKit/MKPlacemark/init(coordinate:))

Creates and returns a placemark object using the specified coordinate.

[`-  initWithCoordinate:postalAddress:`](/documentation/MapKit/MKPlacemark/init(coordinate:postalAddress:))

Creates and returns a placemark object with the specified coordinate and postal address from the user’s Contacts database.

[`-  initWithCoordinate:addressDictionary:`](/documentation/MapKit/MKPlacemark/init(coordinate:addressDictionary:))

Creates and returns a placemark object using the specified coordinate and Address Book dictionary.

### Accessing the placemark attributes

[`countryCode`](/documentation/MapKit/MKPlacemark/countryCode)

The abbreviated country or region name.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`NSCopying`](/documentation/Foundation/NSCopying)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`NSSecureCoding`](/documentation/Foundation/NSSecureCoding)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`MKAnnotation`](/documentation/MapKit/MKAnnotation)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`NSCoding`](/documentation/Foundation/NSCoding)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

### Inherits From

[`CLPlacemark`](/documentation/CoreLocation/CLPlacemark)

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