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{{short description|Telephone area code of Anguilla}}
{{distinguish|text=[[telephone country code]] [[+264|264]] for [[Namibia]]}}
'''Area code 264''' is the telephone [[area code]] in the [[North American Numbering Plan]] (NANP) of [[Anguilla]]. The area code was created in a split of the original numbering plan area in the Caribbean ([[area code 809|809]]). 264 was chosen because it spells ANG -- the first three letters of the name of the nation -- on a telephone keypad.

In Anguilla, a local [[telephone number]] is dialed using the seven digits of the directory number. Calls from other NANP countries, including the United States, require dialing the long-distance trunk prefix (''1''), the area code and the seven-digit number.

Prior to the 1990s, subscribers in Anguilla dialed just three digits for a local call, and had the only four-digit national number in the 809 area code: 4972.{{cn|date=May 2018}}

==See also==
*[[List of North American Numbering Plan area codes]]
*[[Area codes in the Caribbean]]
*[[Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom]]

==External links==
*[http://www.nanpa.com North American Numbering Plan Administrator]

{{Area code box | State = Anguilla
| This = 264
  | N = Atlantic Ocean
  | S = Country code 590 in [[Saint Martin (France)|Saint Martin]], [[area code 721]] in [[Sint Maarten]]
  | W = [[area code 284|284]]
  | E = Atlantic Ocean
  | S1 = British Virgin Islands
}}

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[[Category:Area codes in the Caribbean|264]]
[[Category:Communications in Anguilla]]


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