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From: dan@sics.se (Dan Sahlin)
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Subject: Re: Why Were Area Codes Scattered Around in Assignment?
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Date: 6 Sep 90 16:08:34 GMT
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In <11535@accuvax.nwu.edu> bellutta@irst.it (Paolo Bellutta) writes:

>...are there other
>countries that use prefix-place correlation like in Italy?

Most contries in the world seem to have a prefix-place correlation, so
North America is rather an exception to the rule (although it is a
large one).  In Sweden (as in most contries in Europe) the length of
the area code is inversely proportional to the size of the city. So
Stockholm is 08, Uppsala is 018 and Trelleborg is 0410.


Dan Sahlin, SICS, Sweden
email: dan@sics.se