Area code 649

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. It became effective 1 June 1997 and mandatory on 31 May 1998. 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.

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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.^[1] It became effective 1 June 1997 and mandatory on 31 May 1998.^[2]

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.

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^ Drop "809" Code, Cruising World, January 1996, page 10
^ Reed's Nautical Almanac: Caribbean, Thomas Reed Publications, 1999, page 104

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Turks and Caicos Islands area codes: 649
	North: +1242
West: Country Code +53 in Cuba	Area code 649	East: Atlantic Ocean
	South: +1809/+1829/+1849, CC +509 in Haiti
Bahamas area codes: 242
Dominican Republic area codes: 809/829/849

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Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States
Dependencies and other territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

21°49′N 71°48′W / 21.817°N 71.800°W / 21.817; -71.800

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