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Boston, MA 02212
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Bank of America, MA 02212

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The 02212 ZIP Code is centered1 in Suffolk County at latitude 42.356 and longitude -71.056 (Panoramio Photos). It is a unique - single entity - type ZIP Code. Suffolk County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours) and observes daylight savings time.

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Nearby Cities, Towns & Census Designated Places

Boston, MA (< 0.1 mile)
Charlestown, MA (1.4 miles NNW)
Back Bay, MA (1.4 miles WSW)
Dorchester Heights, MA (1.4 miles SSE)
South Boston, MA (1.4 miles SSE)
East Cambridge, MA (1.4 miles WNW)
Jeffries Point, MA (1.4 miles ENE)
East Boston, MA (1.4 miles NNE)
City Point, MA (1.9 miles SE)
Roxbury Crossing, MA (2.4 miles SW)

Nearby Neighborhoods, Subdivisions & Other Small Populated Places

Downtown Crossing, MA (< 0.1 mile)
North End, MA (< 0.1 mile)
Beacon Hill, MA (< 0.1 mile)
Dock Square, MA (< 0.1 mile)
Bay Village, MA (< 0.1 mile)
 Admirals Hill, MA (2.4 miles N)
Avon Hill, MA (4.1 miles WNW)
Coolidge Hill, MA (4.3 miles WNW)
New Squantum, MA (4.5 miles SSE)
Huron Village, MA (4.5 miles WNW)

ZIP Codes - Key Concepts

  1. ZIP Codes are categories for grouping mailing addresses and are not exact geographic regions.
  2. The centroid of a ZIP Code may be in one County and the associated city/town in another.
  3. In rural areas, a single ZIP Code may be used for cities and towns in several different Counties.
  4. ZIP Code "areas" can overlap, be subsets of each other, or be artificial constructs with no geographic area.
  5. ZIP Codes are only loosely tied to cities.

1 Keeping the above key concepts in mind, what we informally refer to as the "center" of a ZIP Code is most often actually the centroid of a polygon.