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Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
The MK postcode area, also known as the Milton Keynes postcode area, [2] is a group of 26 postcode districts in England, within five post towns.These cover north Buckinghamshire (including Milton Keynes, Buckingham, Newport Pagnell and Olney), west and north Bedfordshire (including Bedford) and very small parts of Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
The postal code H0H 0H0 was chosen for this special seasonal use, [41] as it reads "Ho ho ho" if each zero is interpreted as the similar-looking letter O. The H0- prefix is an anomaly: the 0 indicates a rural delivery zone, but H is used to designate Montreal , the second-largest city in Canada.
01908 — Milton Keynes (originally Wolverton (WO8)) [1] [2] [7] 01909 — Worksop (WO9) 01910 – 01919; See 0191 — Tyne and Wear, Sunderland (tY1neside) and Durham – previously 091 The 091 area was formed in the 1980s by the amalgamation of the older 0632, 0385, 0894, and 0783 area codes [notes 22] 01920 — Ware (WA0) 01921 — unused
Mobile phone numbers are not uniquely different from land-line numbers, and thus follow the same rules for format and area code. Numbers may be ported between landline and mobile . The rarely used non-geographic area code 600 is an exception to this pattern (non-portable, and allows caller-pays-airtime satellite telephony ); some independent ...
The 647 area code does not carry the same strong geographic associations as it disproportionately contains nomadic services (such as mobile telephones and voice over IP); an incumbent Bell land line is hard-wired to a specific location in area 416, postal code M. Some have paid a premium for a true 416 number as the code gives the appearance of ...
Postcode areas shown with former postal counties. This is a list of postcode districts in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies. A group of postcode districts with the same alphabetical prefix is called a postcode area. All, or part, of one or more postcode districts are grouped into post towns. [1]
For the purposes of directing mail, the United Kingdom (although the populations listed just show figures for England, Wales and Northern Ireland), is divided by Royal Mail into postcode areas. The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode . [ 1 ]