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From 1958 to 1999, most of the British West Indies in the Caribbean Basin, Bermuda, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico shared area code 809. By the mid-1990s, with the proliferation of fax machines, mobile phones, computers, and pagers in the region, the pool of available central office codes was exhausting.
Area code 242 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for The Bahamas. Area code 242 translates to the letter sequence BHA on an alpha-numeric keypad. The numbering plan area (NPA) was created in a split of area code 809 , which was originally assigned to the Bahamas and many of the Caribbean islands.
English: A map of the Caribbean and the West Indies, showing the NANP area codes and international country codes for each territory. Based on maps Caribbean map blank.svg and Lesser Antilles location map.svg
For more information, see Area codes in the Caribbean. Pages in category "Area codes in the Caribbean" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Caribmap is a non-profit online library of historical and modern maps, including topographic maps, of the Caribbean islands. [1] Since its establishment in 1999, the site has accumulated approximately 1800 maps of the islands that have been printed since the beginning of the 16th century [2] The purpose of the site is to allow users, such as historians and scientists, to gain detailed ...
In 1936, AT&T installed the first telephone service extensions to Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and El Salvador in the Caribbean. [2]In 1958, Bermuda and the Caribbean Islands were designated as a large numbering plan area (NPA) with area code 809 as part of a comprehensive North American telephone numbering plan first defined in 1947 by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in cooperation with ...
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Aruba and Sint Maarten, also former parts of the Netherlands Antilles, discontinued using the code in 1986 and 2011 respectively. Aruba now uses country code 297, and Sint Maarten uses the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) country code 1 with area code 721. [3] The International call prefix is 00.