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  2. List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The postal abbreviation is the same as the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for each of the fifty states. These codes do not overlap with the 13 Canadian subnational postal abbreviations . The code for Nebraska changed from NB to NE in November 1969 to avoid a conflict with New Brunswick. [3]

  3. Federal Information Processing Standard state code - Wikipedia

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    The FIPS state alpha code for each U.S. states and the District of Columbia are identical to the postal abbreviations by the United States Postal Service. From September 3, 1987, the same was true of the alpha code for each of the outlying areas, with the exception of U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (UM) as the USPS routes mail for these islands ...

  4. List of ZIP Code prefixes - Wikipedia

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    500 IA Des Moines A-F: 501 IA Des Moines G-M: 502 IA Des Moines N-Z: 503 IA* Des Moines Main 1: 504 IA Mason City: 505 IA Fort Dodge: 506 IA Waterloo Vicinity: 507 IA* Waterloo Main: 508 IA Creston: 509 IA Des Moines Main 2: 510 IA† Sioux City Vicinity: 511 IA*† Sioux City Main: 512 IA† Sheldon: 513 IA† Spencer: 514 IA Carroll: 515 IA ...

  5. List of states and territories of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Iowa: IA Des Moines: Dec 28, 1846: 3,190,369. 56,273 145,746 4 ... postal abbreviation Established Population Total area Number of Reps. mi 2 km 2

  6. ZIP Code - Wikipedia

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    A 1974 postage stamp encouraging people to use the ZIP Code on letters and parcels. A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan [1]) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly [2] ( zipping along) when senders use the ...

  7. ISO 3166-2:US - Wikipedia

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    ISO 3166-2:US. ISO 3166-2:US is the entry for the United States in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1 .

  8. Des Moines, Iowa - Wikipedia

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    www .dmgov .org. Des Moines ( / dəˈmɔɪn / ⓘ də-MOYN) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is the county seat of Polk County with parts extending into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines, which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857. [6] It is located on, and named ...

  9. U.S. postal abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations#Postal codes To a section : This is a redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject. For redirects to embedded anchors on a page, use {{ R to anchor }} instead .