Area code 919

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Area codes of North Carolina.

Area code 919 is a telephone area code serving all or parts of 11 counties in the north-central area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It serves the primary cities of Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, and the surrounding suburban areas of the Research Triangle Metropolitan Region, as well as the outlying towns and nearby rural areas of Oxford to the north and Goldsboro to the southeast.

It was split off from area code 704 in the 1950s, and originally covered the entire eastern part of the state from Winston-Salem to Wilmington. In 1993, the western and southern portions of the area code were split off to form area code 910. In 1998, the northeastern portion was split off to form area code 252.

The area code permits 7 or 10 digit dialing for calls within the area code.

The area code is slated for an overlay with area code 984, however the overlay was deferred in October, 2001, when the supply of numbers was deemed sufficient for the near term.

Cultural references

• North Carolina native Petey Pablo paid respect to area code 919 on his debut album Diary Of A Sinner: 1st Entry.

• In the musical Rent, one of Alexi Darling's contact numbers left on Mark and Roger's answering machine has a 919 area code, even though she is an agent in New York City.

See also

• List of North Carolina area codes
• NANPA area code map of North Carolina
• List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 919 Area Code

References

North Carolina area codes: 252, 336/743, 704/980, 828, 910/472, 919/984

	North: 434
West: 336	919	East: 252
	South: 910
Virginia area codes: 276, 434, 540/826, 703/571, 757/948, 804/686