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99599

ZIP 99599 is in Anchorage, Alaska, in Anchorage Municipality; area code 907; Alaska time. Anchorage has 25 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Anchorage
County
Anchorage
Metro area
Anchorage, AK
Coordinates
61.1872, -149.8804

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 99503, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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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 99599
  • 🔢 Type 99599 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GGSGG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ⇆99599 reads the same backwards. It is one of only 412 palindromic ZIP codes.
  • ➕ As a number, 99,599 = 137 × 727. Its digits add up to 41, a total 3 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 11000010100001111
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 99591 (Saint George Island, AK, 771 mi away) and 99602 (Holy Cross, AK, 334 mi away). Next door on paper, a road trip in real life.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 99% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 99%.
  • 🎯2,596 miles northwest of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 99599 and you would come out at 61.19°S, 30.12°E — 1,740 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 19h 22m of daylight. Shortest: 5h 28m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 99599

ZIPCityDistance
99513 Anchorage, AK 1.9 mi
99518 Anchorage, AK 1.9 mi
99517 Anchorage, AK 2.0 mi
99509 Anchorage, AK 2.2 mi
99514 Anchorage, AK 2.2 mi
99520 Anchorage, AK 2.2 mi
99521 Anchorage, AK 2.2 mi
99522 Anchorage, AK 2.2 mi
99523 Anchorage, AK 2.2 mi
99524 Anchorage, AK 2.2 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 99599?

99599 is in Anchorage, Alaska, in Anchorage Municipality, part of the Anchorage, AK metropolitan area. Its published point location is 61.1872, -149.8804.

What county is 99599 in?

99599 lies in Anchorage Municipality.

What area code is 99599?

Anchorage uses area code 907, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 99599 in?

99599 uses America/Anchorage.

What ZIP codes are near 99599?

The closest are 99513 (1.9 mi), 99518 (1.9 mi), 99517 (2 mi), 99509 (2.2 mi) and 99514 (2.2 mi).

Is 99599 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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