I love how the division in Europe vaguely looks like the Protestant Reformation led to different prefix numbers (I know I know, Poland & co don’t match)
It’s interesting to me that Africa is 2. I’d assume that when these were implemented Africa would be a cultural afterthought and Europe would’ve gotten number 2.
Curious what the thought process was there.
It’s interesting to me that the US, Canada, Russia, and Kazakhstan get single digit codes, and the rest of the world get double or triple digits.
US is part of the NANP which means they have their own system for beyond +1, which is shared with Canada and half the Caribbean, and so they were given the whole of +1 rather than +10, +11, +12 etc. all resolving to the same thing, or +10 being for about 10 different countries while +11 was for one
Then the Soviet Union wanted a single digit too, which is why Russia and Kazakhstan share +7
now do IP addresses
Mongolia has a calling code that’s too hot to handle
One could argue, and one could argue that I’m arguing exactly that right now, that a map is not strictly speaking a list.
I could also agree that a map is just a multidimensional list. But this is map_enthusiasts NOT list_enthusiasts, so… Um… What was the point?
