# Area code 649

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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](/source/area_code) of the '''[Turks and Caicos Islands](/source/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands)'''.  Area 649 was created in a split from the original [area code 809](/source/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](/source/North_American_Numbering_Plan) (which includes the [United States](/source/United_States), [Canada](/source/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](/source/List_of_NANP_area_codes)
*[North American Numbering Plan](/source/North_American_Numbering_Plan)
*[Area codes in the Caribbean](/source/Area_codes_in_the_Caribbean)
*[Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom](/source/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= [+1242](/source/area_code_242)
| S= [+1809](/source/area_code_809)/[+1829](/source/area_code_829)/[+1849](/source/area_code_849), [CC](/source/List_of_country_calling_codes) [+509](/source/%2B509) in [Haiti](/source/Haiti)
| E= [Atlantic Ocean](/source/Atlantic_Ocean)
| W= [Country Code](/source/List_of_country_calling_codes) [+53](/source/%2B53) in [Cuba](/source/Cuba)
| S1=Bahamas|S2=Dominican Republic}}

{{Area code list}}
{{North America topic|Telephone numbers in}}

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649
Category:Communications in the Turks and Caicos Islands

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