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Area code 949
Telephone area code for southern Orange County, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Area code 949 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of California in southern Orange County. The area code was assigned on April 18, 1998, to a numbering plan area that resulted from a boundary change of area code 714 to exclude the southern cities of Orange County.
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