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Country calling codes (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The only other pair sharing the same number are Russia and Kazakhstan with 7

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

All of the USSR was +7 IIRC. Most changed it after independence, notice how the Baltics, Belarus and whatnot have previously unassigned three-character numbers instead of two like most of Europe (except microstates). They only got their numbers in the 90s, and no shorter ones were available. +37 just became available since east Germany didn't exist anymore.

Same with the former Yugoslavian countries, all of YU used +38, when they split up they had to split up +38 too.