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96506

ZIP 96506 is military mail, not a town: FPO AP, the Armed Forces Pacific routing code, which covers the Pacific. FPO is the Fleet Post Office, which serves Navy and Marine Corps bases and ships. Mail to it carries a unit or ship number instead of a street, at domestic US postage.

Type
Military (APO/FPO/DPO)
Time zone
America/Adak
County
none
Metro area
none
Coordinates
51.8800, -176.6581

This ZIP code has no Census tabulation area of its own. Its point falls inside ZCTA 99546, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 96506 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 96506
  • 🔢 Type 96506 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gOSgG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 96,506 = 2 × 73 × 661. Its digits add up to 26, a total 2,038 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10111100011111010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 96505 (FPO AA, a military post office, 0 mi away) and 96507 (FPO AA, a military post office, 192 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 96506 becomes 60569 — and that is a real ZIP code: Aurora, IL, 3,974 miles away.
  • 👥 19 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (05669, 50669, 56069, 56096, 59066, 60569, …). The farthest-flung twin is 05669 in Roxbury, VT, 4,413 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 99% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 99%.
  • 🎯3,662 miles northwest of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 96506 and you would come out at 51.88°S, 3.34°E — 1,450 miles from Cape Town, South Africa, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 16h 43m of daylight. Shortest: 7h 46m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 96506

ZIPCityDistance
96505 FPO AA, AA 0.0 mi
99546 Adak, AK 1.7 mi
99547 Atka, AK 107.0 mi
99660 Saint Paul Island, AK 445.2 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 96506?

ZIP 96506 is military mail, not a town: FPO AP, the Armed Forces Pacific routing code, which covers the Pacific. FPO is the Fleet Post Office, which serves Navy and Marine Corps bases and ships. Mail to it carries a unit or ship number instead of a street, at domestic US postage.

What county is 96506 in?

96506 belongs to no county — military ZIP codes are mail routing codes, not places.

What ZIP codes are near 96506?

The closest are 96505 (0 mi), 99546 (1.7 mi), 99547 (107 mi) and 99660 (445.2 mi).

Is 96506 a PO Box ZIP code?

96506 is a military (apo/fpo/dpo) ZIP code. A USPS routing code for military mail, not a geographic area.

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