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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/04402

04402

ZIP 04402 is in Bangor, Maine, in Penobscot County; area code 207; Eastern time. Bangor has 2 ZIP codes; the other is 04401.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Penobscot
Metro area
Bangor, ME
Coordinates
44.8012, -68.7778

The Census map gives this ZIP code no delivery area of its own, which usually means it serves post office boxes, a single organization or a post office rather than streets of homes.

This ZIP code has no Census tabulation area of its own. Its point falls inside ZCTA 04401, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 04402 is

This ZIP code has no Census tabulation area, so there is no boundary to draw — the marker is its published point location.

★ Weird and wonderful facts about 04402
  • 🔢 Type 04402 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZOhhO — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 4,402 = 2 × 31 × 71. Its digits add up to 10, a total 513 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1000100110010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 04401 (Bangor, ME, 5 mi away) and 04406 (Abbot, ME, 50 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 04402 becomes 20440 — and that is a real ZIP code: Washington, DC, 588 miles away.
  • 👥 13 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02044, 04024, 04042, 04240, 04420, 20044, …). The farthest-flung twin is 42040 in Farmington, KY, 1,174 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 90% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 98%.
  • 🎯1,552 miles northeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 04402 and you would come out at 44.80°S, 111.22°E — 922 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 35m of daylight. Shortest: 8h 47m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments37This ZIP37
Employees1,017This ZIP1,017
Annual payroll$87,964,000This ZIP$87,964,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 04402

ZIPCityDistance
04412 Brewer, ME 2.4 mi
04401 Bangor, ME 4.8 mi
04473 Orono, ME 5.9 mi
04474 Orrington, ME 7.8 mi
04489 Stillwater, ME 8.7 mi
04469 Orono, ME 8.9 mi
04429 Holden, ME 9.6 mi
04444 Hampden, ME 9.8 mi
04450 Kenduskeag, ME 10.8 mi
04428 Eddington, ME 11.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 04402?

04402 is in Bangor, Maine, in Penobscot County, part of the Bangor, ME metropolitan area. Its published point location is 44.8012, -68.7778.

What county is 04402 in?

04402 lies in Penobscot County.

What area code is 04402?

Bangor uses area code 207, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 04402 in?

04402 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 04402?

The closest are 04412 (2.4 mi), 04401 (4.8 mi), 04473 (5.9 mi), 04474 (7.8 mi) and 04489 (8.7 mi).

Is 04402 a PO Box ZIP code?

Possibly. The Census map gives this ZIP code no delivery area of its own, which usually means it serves post office boxes, a single organization or a post office rather than streets of homes.

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