Why Is +91 Country Code Of India?
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13 March 2024
Whenever a mobile number is dialed across India, +91 is automatically prefixed to the number no matter which state or city it is from
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While people know +91 is the country code of India, have you wondered the reason behind it?
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Notably, International Telecommunication Union or ITU is the UN agency that provides the codes to all the countries
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Every country in the world has a different country code that needs to be dialed before the local phone number
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CCITT, the predecessor of the ITU, initially developed the initial list of country codes by dividing the globe into 9 different zones
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South, Central, West Asia and Middle East fell in the 9th zone, therefore India got +91 as its country code
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All the countries under the 9th zone have their code starting from 9. The country code of Pakistan is +92, +93 for Afghanistan and so on
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The ITU considered factors such as population, economic importance, and other communication-related factors when assigning country codes
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The popular and populous countries that were part of the body overseeing the establishment of international codes, were given the shortest codes
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Only US and USSR were allocated single-digit codes, +1 and +7. Meanwhile, the smallest nations got 3-digit codes
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