You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments
14 points
*

The US is literally #1

Edit: plus Canada, I didn’t know we were country calling code buddies 🫶

permalink
report
reply
20 points

They needed to make it simple for Americans

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points

Awww :(

I was just pointing it out because we’re never #1 in anything that isn’t horrible these days

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

Don’t worry. I was only joking.
America is #1 at lots of things, like… erm… yeah. Lots of things.

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

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

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points
*

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.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Czechia is 420 😎

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

It’s the award for helping foster the growth of the technology. America is a Petrie dish for tech and they use their people as agar.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Map Enthusiasts

!map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

Create post

For the map enthused!

Rules:

  • post relevant content: interesting, informative, and/or pretty maps

  • be nice

Community stats

  • 1K

    Monthly active users

  • 357

    Posts

  • 4.2K

    Comments