Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Peter J. Dotzauer" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: My List of World Wide Codes Message-ID: <8460@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 30 May 90 14:17:52 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Ohio State Univ IRCC Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 400, Message 2 of 6 In article <8353@accuvax.nwu.edu> "Michael A. Shiels" writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 392, Message 2 of 5 > 66- Thailand 670- Marianna Islands > 687- New Caledonia 688- Tuvalu, Saipan Saipan is a part of the Mariana Islands. Not only that, it comprises about 90 percent of its population. The rest is mainly on Tinian and Rota. Why does Saipan, a part of the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands, have an area code together with a relatively distant country of 9 South Pacific Atolls (Tuvalu), while the rest of the Marianas has another area code. > 689- French Polynesia 690- Tokelan ^^^^^^^ Should be Tokelau (a New Zealand territory). Peter Dotzauer, Analyt.Cart.& GIS, Dept.of Geogr., OSU, Columbus, OH 43210-1361 TEL +1 614 292 1357 FAX +1 614 292 6213 FIDO 1:226/330 CCnet mapvxa::pjd INTERNET pjd+@osu.edu or pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu [128.146.1.5] BITNET pjd@ohstvmb UUCP ...!osu-cis!hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu!pjd