Area code 229

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Telephone area code for southwest Georgia, United States

title: "Area code 229" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["area-codes-in-the-united-states", "area-codes-in-georgia-(u.s.-state)", "telecommunications-related-introductions-in-2000"] description: "Telephone area code for southwest Georgia, United States" topic_path: "engineering" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_code_229" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Telephone area code for southwest Georgia, United States ::

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Area code 229 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Georgia. The numbering plan area includes the cities of Albany, Valdosta, Adel, Leesburg, Bainbridge, Americus, Vienna, Fitzgerald, Ocilla, Cairo, Moultrie, Thomasville, McRae-Helena, and Tifton.

The area code was created on August 1, 2000 in a three-way split of area code 912,{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalnanpa.com/pdf/pl-nanp-202.pdf |title=912 NPA Split, Creating 229 and 478 NPAs (Georgia) |publisher=NANPA |date=1999-12-06 |access-date=2023-07-24 |url=https://www.nationalnanpa.com/pdf/pl-nanp-288.pdf |title=Supplemental Information NPA SPLIT 912/478/229 Georgia |publisher=NANPA |date=2001-07-13 |access-date=2023-07-24

Projections of October 2021 indicated that the area code is not expected to need relief until 2029.{{cite web |url=https://nationalnanpa.com/reports/October%202021%20NPA%20Exhaust%20Analysis.pdf|title= 2021-2 NRUF and NPA Exhaust Analysis |publisher=NANPA |website=nationalnanpa.com |date=October 2021 |access-date=2023-04-11

Service area

The service area comprises following Georgia counties:

In popular culture

229 spells ABY on the alphanumeric telephone keypad, which is an abbreviation of the city of Albany and the IATA airport code for Southwest Georgia Regional Airport{{cite web | url = http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf | title = 2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A | work = National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems | publisher = Federal Aviation Administration | date = 2010-10-04

References

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