Area code 684 is a telephone

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in the

North American Numbering Plan The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean. This group is historically known as World Zone 1 and has the international calling ...

(NANP) for

American Samoa American Samoa ( sm, Amerika Sāmoa, ; also ' or ') is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the island country of Samoa. Its location is centered on . It is east of the Internation ...

. The numbering plan area comprises the seven islands of

Tutuila Tutuila is the main island of American Samoa (and its largest), and is part of the archipelago of Samoan Islands. It is the third largest island in the Samoan Islands chain of the Central Pacific. It is located roughly northeast of Brisbane, A ...

, Aunuʻu, Ofu,

Olosega Ofu and Olosega are parts of a volcanic doublet in the Manuʻa Islands, which is a part of American Samoa in the Samoan Islands. These twin islands, formed from shield volcanoes, have a combined length of 6 km and a combined area of . Together, ...

, Taʻū,

Swains Island Swains Island (; Tokelauan: ''Olohega'' ; Samoan: ''Olosega'' ) is a remote coral atoll in the Tokelau Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The island is the subject of an ongoing territorial dispute between Tokelau and the United States, whi ...

, and

Rose Atoll Rose Atoll, sometimes called Rose Island or Motu O Manu ("Bird Island") by people of the nearby Manu'a Islands, is an oceanic atoll within the U.S. territory of American Samoa. An uninhabited wildlife refuge, it is the southernmost point bel ...

History

Previous to joining the North American Numbering Plan, American Samoa used the

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country code ''684''. It became the only area south of the equator that is part of the NANP. The entry of American Samoa into the North American Numbering Plan was authorized by the

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(FCC) on December 24, 2002.NANPA Planning Letter No. 330 (2003-03-24) Area code 684 was assigned on January 24, 2003. The area code was installed on October 2, 2004, when a six-month permissive dialing period started, and central office code were available for order. When the area code was installed, American Samoa had one rater center, and ten central offices. All calls within the numbering plan area are local calls, dialed with seven digits, or with the prefix ''0'' and the area code. The long-distance access code is ''1''. As of 2020, additional central office prefixes were 248, 252, 254, 256, 272, 630, 731, 770, and 782.

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External links

List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 684 Area Code
684 Communications in American Samoa Telecommunications-related introductions in 2004 {{areacode-stub

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