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05 Dec 2008, 6:04 pm

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20611
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05 Dec 2008, 10:14 pm

I do know that when they handed out long distance area codes, they were allocated on the relative 'power' of each region;such that the most important got the easiest-to-dial area code... which is why NYC got 212, and NC got 919....;)



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06 Dec 2008, 2:27 am

we have odd codes like 81, 55 or 33+eight numbers for the big cities, and codes like 321 or 456+seven numbers for the others.


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