this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025
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wow +4 is actually kind of rare
Looks like some former USSR countries in Eastern Europe, like Ukraine or Lithuania, use +3 country codes. Was this always the case or was it changed after the dissolution of the USSR?
From wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Lithuania:
During the Soviet occupation and for a period after it, the country used the Soviet numbering: +7 012 area code until 1993;[4] the legacy numbering was used for the national area codes until it was replaced in 2001–2003;[5] the domestic prefix "8" was replaced with "0" in 2024 (and fully deactivated in 2025[1]), despite being planned since 2001.[3][6] The delay was due to legacy emergency numbers 01, 02 and 03, which were kept active until 1 April 2022.[
Going through my phonebook and replacing 8's with zeroes was a mess.
I should make some random fun calls with +850 numbers next weekend
Czechia knows whats up.
Back in the Cold War somebody commented how apt it was that if you wanted to call Russia from the UK you have to dial 007
Still mad america stole half of +1. CANADA INVENTED IT, THEY SHOULD HAVE SOLE OWNERSHIP OF +1.
USA #1
(literally)
Well along with Canada andd a bunch of countries in the Caribbean
True. But that doesn't have as nice of a ring to it
+3something
near to +37something
and to +4something
The only thing, I can think of is that, that Czech Republic has a nice telephone code.
Russia: Both? Both. Add em up, that's us.