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Area code 876 was created on 1 May 1997 for Jamaica. [1] In 2019, the numbering plan area received a second area code, 658, in formation of an overlay to relieve central office code exhaustion. The telephone country code for reaching telephone numbers in the country is 1 .
The NANP Administrator (NANPA) has allocated the area codes 876 and 658 for use in the country, which is a single numbering plan area (NPA) with an overlay numbering plan. The national telephone number format is NPA-NXX-XXXX, where N is one of the digits 2 through 9, and X is any digit. For international dialing to Jamaica, the country code is 1.
An area code of three digits dialed after the country code determines the area served in the United States and its territories, Canada, and much of the Caribbean. Zone 2 uses two 2-digit codes (20, 27) and eight sets of 3-digit codes (21x–26x, 28x, 29x), mostly to serve Africa , but also Aruba , Faroe Islands , Greenland and British Indian ...
In various island nations, premium exchanges such as +1-876-HOT-, +1-876-WET- or +1-876-SEX- (where 876 is Jamaica) became a means to circumvent consumer-protection laws governing area code 900 or similar U.S.-domestic premium numbers.
Country: Jamaica: County: Surrey: Population (2009) • Total. 1,067: Time zone: EST: Area code(s) +1-876: Gordon Town is a settlement in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica ...
The NANP area codes (black) and country codes (red) of the Caribbean islands. Territory Area code ... Jamaica: 876, 658 [2] 1996, 2018 Montserrat: 664: 1996 Puerto Rico:
The prefixes in the Americas start with one of 1,2,5. All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with the exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada and the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa.
+1-658 (Overlay of 876; active in November 2018) View of Ocho Rios, taken from Shaw Park Gardens – 2010 Ocho Rios Chapel, Jamaica (1850) [ 1 ] Ocho Rios (Spanish for "Eight Rivers") is a town in the parish of Saint Ann on the north coast of Jamaica , and is more widely referred to as Ochi by locals.