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09839

ZIP 09839 is military mail, not a town: APO AE, the Armed Forces Europe routing code, which covers Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Canada. APO is the Army and Air Force Post Office. Mail to it carries a unit or ship number instead of a street, at domestic US postage.

Type
Military (APO/FPO/DPO)
Time zone
Africa/Cairo
County
none
Metro area
none
Coordinates
30.0626, 31.2497
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Where 09839 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 09839
  • 🔢 Type 09839 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GEBGO — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ 09839 is a prime number. It cannot be divided by anything except 1 and itself. Its digits add up to 29, a total 1,296 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10011001101111
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 09838 (FPO AE, a military post office, 653 mi away) and 09840 (APO AE, a military post office, 696 mi away). Next door on paper, a road trip in real life.
  • 🔄 Backwards, 09839 becomes 93890, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 12 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (09893, 39098, 80939, 89039, 93908, 98039, …). The farthest-flung twin is 93908 in Salinas, CA, 7,505 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 93% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 99%.
  • 🎯6,634 miles northeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 09839 and you would come out at 30.06°S, 148.75°W — 867 miles from Papeete, French Polynesia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 05m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 12m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 09839

ZIPCityDistance
09835 FPO AE, AE 0.0 mi
09893 APO AE, AE 0.0 mi
09832 APO AE, AE 184.9 mi
09833 APO AE, AE 238.0 mi
09830 APO AE, AE 251.2 mi
09892 FPO AE, AE 307.2 mi
09810 APO AE, AE 340.8 mi
09836 FPO AE, AE 374.0 mi
09846 APO AE, AE 508.1 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 09839?

ZIP 09839 is military mail, not a town: APO AE, the Armed Forces Europe routing code, which covers Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Canada. APO is the Army and Air Force Post Office. Mail to it carries a unit or ship number instead of a street, at domestic US postage.

What county is 09839 in?

09839 belongs to no county — military ZIP codes are mail routing codes, not places.

What ZIP codes are near 09839?

The closest are 09835 (0 mi), 09893 (0 mi), 09832 (184.9 mi), 09833 (238 mi) and 09830 (251.2 mi).

Is 09839 a PO Box ZIP code?

09839 is a military (apo/fpo/dpo) ZIP code. A USPS routing code for military mail, not a geographic area.

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