Phone Book of Latin America.com +5 by Phone Book of the World.com (original) (raw)

Secrets behind Latin American phonecodes: The International numbering plan
got in place in I964.
Initially Mexico and some Central American Countries
were part of the "World Telecom Zone"
North America +1

8 larger countries have a two digit code,
(+51), (+52), (+53), (+54), (+55), (+56), (+57), (+58)

Brazil has the double digit, (+55).
Lobbying efforts were made
to help Brazil get this prime code.
Only 4 countries in the world have
a double digit country code.

smaller countries have a three digit code:
the 9 smaller countries of South America start with

+59-
(+590), (+5911), (+592), (+593), (+594), (+595), (+596), (+597), (+598) and (+599)
the 8 smaller countries of Central America start with +50-
(+501), (+502), (+503), (+504), (+505), (+506), (+507), (+509)

Mexico once had the country code

(+1)
in fact it is only in 1972
that British Hoduras (now Belize) (+501), Costa Rica (+506), El Salvador (+503),
Honduras (+504), Nicaragua (+505) and Panama (+507)
became part of the Latin American Phonesystem

it is only in 1976 that the French Departements Guadeloupe

(+590) and Martinique(+596)
got their country codes

** in 1984 Saint Pierre et Miquelon,
two French islands situated in the high North
above Nova Scotia, Canada
were remooved from the North American phone system

(+1)
and got the Central American country code (+508)
all the Caribbean Islands situated a few thousand miles lower
remaining in the North American system

*also the British Falklands (in Spanish Malvinas)

(+500)
located next to Argentina, South America
received a central American code,
it would have been more logic to give them a Southern (+59-) code
the explanation is that there were no more codes left ...

for future changes
it will be difficult to react,
all 5 codes beeing presently occupied ...

Phonebook of Latin America.com includes
Phone information
on all Countries of Latin America.
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all over Latin America.
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This site also gives you
Country Codes and Area Codes,
and Information on Directory Assistance
throughout Latin America.