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Whay are ther more country calling codes then countries ?

Some country codes have three digits (243 - Zaire) and some countries have only one (1 - U.S ) how come the numbers are higher then the amount of states  ( 193 including the Vatican ) ?

 


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Each part of the world are has a starting number ( for example 2 for Africa ) in some continents you have more the ten countries. Read more at this

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Posted 2006-11-29T21:52:55Z
 
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