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96940

ZIP 96940 is Palau, Palau.

Type
No street area
Time zone
Pacific/Palau
County
none
Metro area
none
Coordinates
7.2257, 134.3622

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.

☼ Live from 96940 — Palau, PW

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Where 96940 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 96940
  • 🔢 Type 96940 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OhGgG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 96,940 = 2 × 2 × 5 × 37 × 131. Its digits add up to 28, a total 1,520 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10111101010101100
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 96932 (Hagatna, GU, 827 mi away) and 96941 (Pohnpei, FM, 1,175 mi away). Next door on paper, a road trip in real life.
  • 🔄 Backwards, 96940 becomes 04969 — and that is a real ZIP code: Plymouth, ME, 8,555 miles away.
  • 👥 16 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (04969, 09469, 09694, 46990, 49096, 49690, …). The farthest-flung twin is 04969 in Plymouth, ME, 8,555 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 99% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 99%.
  • 🎯7,755 miles northwest of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 96940 and you would come out at 7.23°S, 45.64°W — 173 miles from Imperatriz, Brazil, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 12h 33m of daylight. Shortest: 11h 42m.
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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 96940?

96940 is in Palau, Palau. Its published point location is 7.2257, 134.3622.

What county is 96940 in?

96940 belongs to no county — military ZIP codes are mail routing codes, not places.

What time zone is 96940 in?

96940 uses Pacific/Palau.

Is 96940 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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