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96516

ZIP 96516 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
Pacific/Midway
County
none
Metro area
none
Coordinates
28.2280, -177.3890
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Where 96516 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 96516
  • 🔢 Type 96516 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gISgG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 96,516 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 × 7 × 383. Its digits add up to 27, a total 1,806 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10111100100000100
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 96514 (FPO AA, a military post office, 0 mi away) and 96517 (FPO AA, a military post office, 2,956 mi away). Next door on paper, a road trip in real life.
  • 🔄 Backwards, 96516 becomes 61569 — and that is a real ZIP code: Trivoli, IL, 4,855 miles away.
  • 👥 14 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (15696, 16659, 16695, 56169, 56619, 61569, …). The farthest-flung twin is 16695 in Woodbury, PA, 5,424 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 96% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 99%.
  • 🎯4,440 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 96516 and you would come out at 28.23°S, 2.61°E — 984 miles from Windhoek, Namibia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 13h 56m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 21m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 96516

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96514 FPO AA, AA 0.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 96516?

ZIP 96516 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 96516 in?

96516 belongs to no county — military ZIP codes are mail routing codes, not places.

What ZIP codes are near 96516?

The closest are 96514 (0 mi).

Is 96516 a PO Box ZIP code?

96516 is a military (apo/fpo/dpo) ZIP code. A USPS routing code for military mail, not a geographic area.

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