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, which had served the southern half of Georgia for forty-six years. Savannah and the eastern portion retained area code 912, while Macon and the northern portion were assigned to area code 478. A one-year permissive dialing period was in effect until August 1, 2001 for ten-digit dialing into the numbering plan area, but several local routes remained available with seven-digit dialing.
Projections of October 2021 indicated that the area code is not expected to need relief until 2029.
Service area The service area comprises the following Georgia counties:
Baker Ben Hill Berrien Brooks Calhoun Clay Colquitt Cook Crisp Decatur Dodge (part with area code 478) Dooly County, Georgia (part with area code 478) Dougherty Early Echols (part with area code 912) Grady Irwin Lanier Lee Lowndes Marion Miller Mitchell Pulaski (part with area code 478) Quitman Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Sumter Telfair (part with area code 912) Terrell Thomas Tift Turner Webster Wilcox Worth
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 in the numbering plan area.
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