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Country Code: 246 International Call Prefix: 00 National Significant Numbers (NSN): seven digits The group of islands forming the British Indian Ocean Territory does not use area codes. This region includes the Chagos Archipelago, the main island of which is Diego Garcia.
For international access the NANP is assigned the country code 1, which is dialed as a prefix in the international E.164 telephone numbering plan. The trunk prefix for dialing long-distance calls, across numbering plan area (NPA) boundaries within Canada or to other NANP countries, is also 1.
Diego Garcia became a colony of the UK after the Napoleonic Wars as part of the Treaty of Paris (1814), and from 1814 to 1965 it was administered from Mauritius; [18] the main plantations were at East Point, the main settlement, Minni Minni, 4.5 km (2.8 mi) north of East Point, and Pointe Marianne, on the western rim, all on the lagoon side of ...
Diego Garcia: E F FLK Falkland Islands (Malvinas) FRO Faroe Islands: G GCA United Kingdom (Non-metropolitan) – Region 1 GCC United Kingdom – Region 3 GIB Gibraltar: GRL Greenland: GUF Guiana (French Department of) GUM Guam: H HKG Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) HMD Heard and McDonald Islands: HWA Hawaii (State of) HWL
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Telephone country codes, but also sometimes referred to as "country dial-in codes", or historically "international subscriber dialing" (ISD) codes in the U.K., are telephone number dialing prefixes for reaching subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
The new agreement between Britain and Mauritius brought an end to their decades-long dispute regarding sovereignty over the archipelago.
code ICAO code WMO code Processing capacity [2] Calgary International Airport: Calgary: Alberta: YYC CYYC 71877 Edmonton International Airport: Edmonton Metropolitan Region: Alberta: YEG CYEG 71123 Fredericton International Airport: Fredericton: New Brunswick: YFC CYFC 71700 55 (140) Gander International Airport: Gander: Newfoundland and ...
Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, abbreviated NSF Diego Garcia, [1] is a British Ministry of Defence facility leased to the United States Navy, located on the atoll Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, for an initial period of 99 years after the forced removal and expulsion of over 2,000 native inhabitants of the island.