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(919 and 984) North Carolina is currently using nine area codes. North Carolina utilizes three area code overlay plans, often called an overlay complex. North Carolina originally had one area code, 704, when the numbering system was established in 1947. By 1954 North Carolina experienced sufficient growth in population and telephone use to need an additional area code. To meet this increase in demand area code 704 was split in 1954 to form area code 919.
North American area codes 240 and 301 are telephone area codes for the western half of Maryland. They serve Maryland's portion of the Greater Washington, D.C. , metro area, portions of southern Maryland, and the more rural areas in the western portion of the state.o free up available numbers, the suburban use of 202 was ended in 1990. Despite the presence of the Baltimore-Washington area, 301 remained the exclusive area code for Maryland for 44 years, making Maryland one of the largest states with a single area code.