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Place Schema

Add Place structured data to your Sanity documents to describe physical locations and venues for Google Maps and local search.

About Place Schema

Place schema describes physical locations and venues with address, geo, and related location details. It helps search engines understand location-based entities and can support local discovery when paired with accurate visible content, LocalBusiness data, and up-to-date external profiles.

Fields

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
namestringThe name of the place or venue.
address.addressLocalitystringThe city or locality where the place is located.
address.addressCountrystringThe country where the place is located (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code).

Plugin Registration

sanity.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from "sanity";
import { seoFields } from "sanity-plugin-seofields";
import { schemaOrgPlacePlugin } from "sanity-plugin-seofields/schema";

export default defineConfig({
  // ...your sanity config
  plugins: [
    seoFields(),
    schemaOrgPlacePlugin(),
  ],
});

Schema Usage

Add the schemaOrgPlace field to any document schema:

schemas/page.ts
import { defineField, defineType } from 'sanity'

export default defineType({
  name: 'page',
  title: 'Page',
  type: 'document',
  fields: [
    // ... your other fields
    defineField({
      name: 'schemaOrgPlace',
      title: 'Place Schema',
      type: 'schemaOrgPlace',
    }),
  ],
})

GROQ Query

GROQ query
*[_type == "yourDocumentType"][0]{
  ...,
  schemaOrgPlace
}

Next.js Component

app/page.tsx
import { PlaceSchema } from "sanity-plugin-seofields/schema/next";

export default function Page({ data }) {
  return (
    <>
      <PlaceSchema data={data.schemaOrgPlace} />
      {/* Your page content */}
    </>
  );
}

JSON-LD Output

Generated JSON-LD
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Place",
  "name": "Central Park",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "addressLocality": "New York",
    "addressCountry": "US"
  }
}

Last updated: May 27, 2026. Tested with: Sanity Studio v3, v4, and v5.

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