Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!rpp386!vector!telecom-gateway From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Official Country Codes list per CCITT E.163 (+notes) Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 89 02:43:05 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 66, message 3 of 5 > World Numbering Zone 5: Mexico, Central and South America > + St. Pierre & Miquelon The existence of this zone as described is somewhat amusing. For those who don't know, St. Pierre & Miquelon consists of a couple of small islands off the south coast of Newfoundland. (This was all that the British would allow the French to keep of their North American colonies after defeating their army at Quebec in 1759.) The next nearest land in Zone 5 would be either Cuba or Haiti, several hundred times farther away than the nearest land in Zone 1. This of course merely shows that the zone boundaries are sometimes of the artificial kind made by politics or language rather than always physical. Actually, if you look at the assignment of Caribbean islands to Zones 1 and 5, this shows clearly in any case. Mark Brader, Toronto "The language should match the users, utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com not vice versa" -- Brian W. Kernighan