USA telephone area code map - New Jersey

Area codes 732 and 848 are telephone

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s in the

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(NANP) for parts of the

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History

In the original configuration of the first nationwide telephone numbering plan of 1947, all of New Jersey was a single numbering plan area (NPA), assigned the first of all area codes, 201. By 1956, it was split to create a second numbering plan area, 609. This division generally followed the dividing line between

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, proximate to

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, and

South Jersey South Jersey, also known as Southern New Jersey, comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located between Pennsylvania and the lower Delaware River to its west, the Atlantic Ocean to its east, Delaware to its south, ...

, proximate to

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and the

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. Despite the division into two numbering plan areas, all calls within the state of New Jersey were dialed without area codes until July 21, 1963. This configuration of two area code in New Jersey remained in place for c. 35 years, until 1991, when the 201 numbering plan area was further divided to create

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in its southern half. This made available more central office prefixes in the northern part, comprising the densely populated western suburbs of

, as well as in the area south of Newark, which fell into NPA 908. On June 1, 1997, services growth in numbering plan area 908 required splitting the area with a new area code 732 assigned to its southeastern half, along the Atlantic seaboard. Following a six-month grace period, the use of the 732 area code became mandatory on December 6 of that year. The area includes

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, and Union counties in Northern and Central New Jersey, and

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and northern

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counties on the New Jersey Shore. The assignment of area code 848 to the same numbering plan area in 2001 created an

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for this region, after the pool of 732-numbers began to exhaust rapidly.McKay, Martha
"New Jersey Assigned New Area Codes."
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'', April 18, 2001. Accessed August 11, 2001. "The new New Jersey area codes -- 551, 356, and 848 -- were announced this week and will be introduced next year

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in the regions currently served by 201, 973, and 732, respectively." With the introduction of the area code 848 overlay,

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became mandatory (on December 1, 2001). The 732/848 area, excluding the portion in Union County, generally defines the

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region while 609/640/

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and 908/ 201/551/ 862/973 generally mark Southern New Jersey and Northern New Jersey, respectively.

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