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Coordinates: 47°37′9.37″N 122°20′28.38″W. Numbering plan areas of Washington, with 206 highlighted in red. Area code 206 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Washington. The numbering plan area (NPA) includes Seattle and most of its innermost suburbs.
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.
this was the first part of North America to have its code changed three times: from 213 to 714 1951: to 619 in 1982, and to 760 in 1997. was to have originally split off the portion of 760 serving San Diego County to a new 442 area code in late 2008/early 2009; that plan was cancelled. 2009: overlaid by 442. 761.
List of Washington area codes. List of Washington area codes may refer to: List of Washington (state) area codes. List of Washington, D.C., area codes.
The new area code 564 is intended to eventually overlay other western Washington NPAs (206, 253, and 425) when demand requires numbering relief action. [5] Area codes 360 and 334 (Alabama), which began service on the same day, were the first two area codes in the North American Numbering Plan with a middle digit other than 0 or 1.
The area code was created in 1997 in a three-way split of area code 206. History [ edit ] When the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) created the first nationwide telephone numbering plan in 1947, the state of Washington was a single numbering plan area and received the area code 206 .
As of July 2023, California has 38 active area codes. Area code. Service area. Notes. 209. Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Turlock; the northern San Joaquin Valley and the central Sierra Nevada range. Split from 415 on October 26, 1957; split off 559 on November 14, 1998; overlaid with 350 on November 28, 2022. 213.
This makes the fastest-dialing area code 212 (5 total clicks), followed by 312 and 213 (6 clicks). The area code 605 is much slower than these at 21 clicks. Many large US cities generally had fast-dialing area codes with the middle digit 1. Touch-tone dialing, introduced later, eliminated the wait.