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ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
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Largest ZIP Codes in North Carolina by Land Area

What this measures. Land area of the Census tabulation area, in square miles. Water is excluded. Source: Census Gazetteer, data release 2026-10-12.

# ZIP City County Land area
1 28719 Cherokee Swain 399.52 sq mi
2 28906 Murphy Cherokee 333.36 sq mi
3 28645 Lenoir Caldwell 329.10 sq mi
4 28655 Morganton Burke 324.99 sq mi
5 27565 Oxford Granville 318.98 sq mi
6 27983 Windsor Bertie 317.63 sq mi
7 27925 Columbia Tyrrell 301.97 sq mi
8 28734 Franklin Macon 301.00 sq mi
9 28376 Raeford Hoke 278.69 sq mi
10 27953 Manns Harbor Dare 262.21 sq mi
11 28771 Robbinsville Graham 258.90 sq mi
12 28714 Burnsville Yancey 257.78 sq mi
13 28753 Marshall Madison 257.59 sq mi
14 28752 Marion McDowell 249.06 sq mi
15 28328 Clinton Sampson 245.79 sq mi
16 27320 Reidsville Rockingham 244.88 sq mi
17 27549 Louisburg Franklin 231.66 sq mi
18 27909 Elizabeth City Pasquotank 226.89 sq mi
19 27205 Asheboro Randolph 223.70 sq mi
20 27330 Sanford Lee 210.70 sq mi
21 28585 Trenton Jones 202.61 sq mi
22 27810 Belhaven Hyde 202.47 sq mi
23 28625 Statesville Iredell 199.38 sq mi
24 28472 Whiteville Columbus 197.86 sq mi
25 28358 Lumberton Robeson 196.61 sq mi
26 27028 Mocksville Davie 192.80 sq mi
27 27574 Roxboro Person 191.64 sq mi
28 27886 Tarboro Edgecombe 191.48 sq mi
29 28365 Mount Olive Duplin 191.36 sq mi
30 27850 Littleton Halifax 190.97 sq mi
31 28327 Carthage Moore 186.58 sq mi
32 28904 Hayesville Clay 186.45 sq mi
33 27537 Henderson Vance 185.65 sq mi
34 27892 Williamston Martin 184.98 sq mi
35 27306 Mount Gilead Montgomery 184.70 sq mi
36 27823 Enfield Halifax 183.69 sq mi
37 28139 Rutherfordton Rutherford 181.86 sq mi
38 28466 Wallace Duplin 179.07 sq mi
39 28170 Wadesboro Anson 177.93 sq mi
40 27889 Washington Beaufort 176.13 sq mi
41 27944 Hertford Perquimans 175.12 sq mi
42 27834 Greenville Pitt 174.29 sq mi
43 28451 Leland Brunswick 172.20 sq mi
44 28420 Ash Brunswick 171.09 sq mi
45 27312 Pittsboro Chatham 170.93 sq mi
46 27030 Mount Airy Surry 170.42 sq mi
47 27589 Warrenton Warren 169.47 sq mi
48 28785 Waynesville Haywood 168.36 sq mi
49 28681 Taylorsville Alexander 167.64 sq mi
50 27344 Siler City Chatham 166.27 sq mi

Showing the top 50 of 853 ZIP codes in North Carolina that have this figure and meet the threshold above. 28719 ranks 1st at 399.52 sq mi, against 166.27 sq mi in 50th place.

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zipcodes.pro. “Largest ZIP Codes in North Carolina by Land Area.” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/rankings/nc/largest-area

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