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{{Short description|Telephone area code of the Turks and Caicos Islands}}
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'''Area code 649''' is the local telephone [[area code]] of the '''[[Turks and Caicos Islands]]'''.  Area 649 was created in a split from the original [[area code 809]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yJv58Lx1rhIC&dq=%22area+code%22+%22Turks+and+Caicos+Islands%22+%22649%22&pg=RA5-PA10 Drop "809" Code], ''Cruising World'', January 1996, page 10</ref> It became effective 1 June 1997 and mandatory on 31 May 1998.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2pYfAQAAIAAJ&q=%22May+1998%22 ''Reed's Nautical Almanac: Caribbean''], Thomas Reed Publications, 1999, page 104</ref>

Calls within the Turks and Caicos Islands are dialled with seven digits.  Calls to the Turks and Caicos Islands from within the [[North American Numbering Plan]] (which includes the [[United States]], [[Canada]] and a number of Caribbean islands) are dialed like any other long-distance call: 1 649 xxx xxxx.

From the 1980s to 1997, the islands had just 946, then later also 941, as exchange prefixes.

==See also==

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

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nanpa.com North American Numbering Plan Administrator]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828013945/http://www.areacodedownload.com/649/index.html List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 649 Area Code]

{{Area code box|State=Turks and Caicos Islands
| This= Area code 649 
| N= [[area code 242|+1242]]
| S= [[area code 809|+1809]]/[[area code 829|+1829]]/[[area code 849|+1849]], [[List of country calling codes#Zone 5|CC]] [[+509]] in [[Haiti]]
| E= [[Atlantic Ocean]]
| W= [[List of country calling codes#Zone 5|Country Code]] [[+53]] in [[Cuba]]
| S1=Bahamas|S2=Dominican Republic}}

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[[Category:Area codes in the Caribbean|649]]
[[Category:Communications in the Turks and Caicos Islands]]


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