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Pages in category "Lists of United States area codes" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. ... List of Washington (state) area codes;
American Samoa (the former country code for this possession and unorganized territory of the United States) October 2, 2004: 2004: inclusion in NANP; 685: not in use; available for geographic assignment 686: Virginia (the Richmond Metropolitan Area, including Petersburg and the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula) February 1, 2024: overlaid on ...
This includes all area codes that can also be found in the subcategories. This category lists the telephone area codes in the United States . Area codes in the North American Numbering Plan area may not contain 0 or 1 as the first digit.
The prefixes in the Americas start with one of 1,2,5. All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with the exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada and the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa.
The U.S. state of Washington has six telephone area codes. The state initially used a single area code until it was divided in 1957 with the creation of area code 509 to serve Eastern Washington. In 1995, 206 was split again to serve just the Puget Sound region after area code 360 was created for the remainder of Western Washington.
In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and assigned the original North American area codes. The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state ...
Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan have the area code prefix 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877, and 888. Additionally, area codes 822, 880 through 887, and 889 are reserved for toll-free use in the future. 811 is excluded because it is a special dialing code in the group NXX for various other purposes.