Country calling codes

gandalf_der_12te, 2 months ago

now do IP addresses

survivalmachine, 2 months ago

xkcd.com/195/

clay_pidgin, 2 months ago

One could argue, and one could argue that I’m arguing exactly that right now, that a map is not strictly speaking a list.

ElderWendigo, 2 months ago

I could also agree that a map is just a multidimensional list. But this is map_enthusiasts NOT list_enthusiasts, so… Um… What was the point?

clay_pidgin, 2 months ago

I find that it’s often easiest to start typing and hope a point finds me along the way. Doesn’t always work!

Blaze, 2 months ago

Feel free to post your own maps

Deceptichum, 2 months ago

Its settled, Greenland is neither North American or European, its African.

deegeese, 2 months ago

Weird how they split up Europe into a patchwork.

I’m guessing it’s because France refused to share a prefix code with Britain.

allywilson, 2 months ago

It’s not a million miles away from the truth. The UK and France were the main advocates behind the ITU, so they got +33 and +44. Which is…fine…but I’ve not come across why NA got +1, etc. or even why those numbers were chosen at all.

KevonLooney, 2 months ago

NA has +1 because the US invented the telephone. Canada is America’s hat.

can, 2 months ago

Graham Bell also moved to Canada.

NotSteve_, 2 months ago

And now we have our most evil telecom, Bell

can, 2 months ago

You sure they’re not tied with Rogers?

NotSteve_, 2 months ago

To be honest, all three are tied for first place evil

can, 2 months ago

Oligopolies control Canada :/

frefi, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The US is literally #1

Edit: plus Canada, I didn’t know we were country calling code buddies 🫶

flamingo_pinyata, 2 months ago

The only other pair sharing the same number are Russia and Kazakhstan with 7

_MusicJunkie, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

All of the USSR was +7 IIRC. Most changed it after independence, notice how the Baltics, Belarus and whatnot have previously unassigned three-character numbers instead of two like most of Europe (except microstates). They only got their numbers in the 90s, and no shorter ones were available. +37 just became available since east Germany didn’t exist anymore.

Same with the former Yugoslavian countries, all of YU used +38, when they split up they had to split up +38 too.

Swarfega, 2 months ago

They needed to make it simple for Americans

frefi, 2 months ago

Awww :(

I was just pointing it out because we’re never #1 in anything that isn’t horrible these days

Swarfega, 2 months ago

Don’t worry. I was only joking.
America is #1 at lots of things, like… erm… yeah. Lots of things.