Its settled, Greenland is neither North American or European, its African.
Weird how they split up Europe into a patchwork.
I’m guessing it’s because France refused to share a prefix code with Britain.
Or more likely, they had a mutual agreement until Britain wanted its own thing, so they exit the deal. Seems like something the English would do. We could have called it Brexit or something
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.
It’s interesting to me that Africa is 2. I’d assume that when these were implemented Africa would be a cultural afterthought and Europe would’ve gotten number 2.
Curious what the thought process was there.
Even more curious is Groenland being +2 too
It's interesting to me that the US, Canada, Russia, and Kazakhstan get single digit codes, and the rest of the world get double or triple digits.
US is part of the NANP which means they have their own system for beyond +1, which is shared with Canada and half the Caribbean, and so they were given the whole of +1 rather than +10, +11, +12 etc. all resolving to the same thing, or +10 being for about 10 different countries while +11 was for one
Then the Soviet Union wanted a single digit too, which is why Russia and Kazakhstan share +7
The US is literally #1
Edit: plus Canada, I didn't know we were country calling code buddies 🫶
The only other pair sharing the same number are Russia and Kazakhstan with 7
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.
It's the award for helping foster the growth of the technology. America is a Petrie dish for tech and they use their people as agar.
Czechia is 420 😎
now do IP addresses
One could argue, and one could argue that I'm arguing exactly that right now, that a map is not strictly speaking a list.
Feel free to post your own maps
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?
I find that it's often easiest to start typing and hope a point finds me along the way. Doesn't always work!
I love how the division in Europe vaguely looks like the Protestant Reformation led to different prefix numbers (I know I know, Poland & co don't match)
What are those, calling codes for ants?
If you have a better version, feel free to provide it, I would update the link
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The various reverse lookup services all seem to be strongest in different areas, but generally I start with tineye and Yandex and only try the others if I don't find what I need.
Mongolia has a calling code that's too hot to handle
