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North American area code 213 is a California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 telephone
Telephone

The telephone is a telecommunications device that is used to transmitter and receive electronically or digitally encoded sound between two or more people conversing....
 area code which was one of the first three area codes created in California in October 1947. It originally contained all of Southern California
Southern California

Southern California, or So Cal, is defined as the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its population centers on the cities of Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, San Bernardino, California, and Riverside, California....
 and was generally associated with Los Angeles.

Over the years it has been subdivided a number of times and is now completely surrounded by the 323 area code
Area code 323

North American area code 323 is a state of California telephone area code which covers, roughly, the area of central Los Angeles, California . 323 also includes Hollywood, California....
, it contains only downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolis area....
 and its immediate environs.






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Area Code 213
North American area code 213 is a California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 telephone
Telephone

The telephone is a telecommunications device that is used to transmitter and receive electronically or digitally encoded sound between two or more people conversing....
 area code which was one of the first three area codes created in California in October 1947. It originally contained all of Southern California
Southern California

Southern California, or So Cal, is defined as the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its population centers on the cities of Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, San Bernardino, California, and Riverside, California....
 and was generally associated with Los Angeles.

Over the years it has been subdivided a number of times and is now completely surrounded by the 323 area code
Area code 323

North American area code 323 is a state of California telephone area code which covers, roughly, the area of central Los Angeles, California . 323 also includes Hollywood, California....
, it contains only downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolis area....
 and its immediate environs. The subdivisions to date have been:
  • area code 714
    Area code 714

    North American area codes 657 and 714 are California telephone area codes which encompass northern Orange County, California, a portion of Los Angeles County, California, and portions of Chino Hills, California in San Bernardino County, California....
     (a flash-cut
    Flash-cut

    A flash-cut is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period.Some telephone area codes were split immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive dialing period....
     sometime during 1951)
  • area code 805
    Area code 805

    Area code 805 is a California telephone area code. Area code 805 includes most or all of the California counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara County, California, and Ventura County, California, plus southernmost portions of Monterey County, and a small portion of Los Angeles County....
     (a flash-cut sometime during 1957)
  • area code 619
    Area code 619

    North American area code 619 is a California telephone area code which was split from area code 714 on November 5, 1982. This area code currently covers the southern half of the city of San Diego, California and its eastern and southern suburbs....
     (split from 714 on November 5 ,1982)
  • area code 818
    Area code 818

    Area code 747 and Area code 818 are California telephone North American Numbering Plan consisting largely of the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California....
     (January 7 ,1984)
  • area code 310
    Area code 310

    North American telephone area codes 310 and 424 are the California telephone area code which are roughly coterminous with the Los Angeles Westside and South Bay, Los Angeles areas of Los Angeles County, including offshore Santa Catalina Island, California, located 40 km south of the mainland portion of Los Angeles County, California....
     (November 2, 1991)
  • area code 909
    Area code 909

    North American Area code 909 is a California telephone area code which was split from area code 714 on November 14 ,1992. Western Riverside County was split off from 909 into area code 951 on July 17, 2004....
     (split from 714 on November 14 ,1992)
  • area code 562
    Area code 562

    Area code 562 is a California telephone area code that was split from area code 310 on January 25, 1997. It is the Telephone numbering plan for much of the Gateway Cities region of southeastern Los Angeles County, California, including Long Beach, California and surrounding cities such as Cerritos, California, Lakewood, California, Pico Riv...
     (split from 310 on January 25 ,1997)
  • area code 760
    Area code 760

    Image:Area_code_760.png|right|Map of California area codes in blue with 760 in redrect 65 82 92 100 Area code 916rect 220 242 245 256 Area code 909...
     (split from 619 on March 22 ,1997)
  • area code 626
    Area code 626

    Telephone numbering plan 626 covers most of the San Gabriel Valley and nearby areas in the northeastern portion of Los Angeles County, California, including Arcadia, California, Monrovia, California, El Monte, California, most of Pasadena, California and West Covina, California....
     (split from 818 on June 14 ,1997)
  • area code 949
    Area code 949

    Area code 949 is an area code in California that is contained mostly within the southern areas of Orange County, California. It also includes a small adjacent area of northwest San Diego County, California, specifically parts of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and San Onofre State Park....
     (split from 714 on April 18 ,1998)
  • area code 323
    Area code 323

    North American area code 323 is a state of California telephone area code which covers, roughly, the area of central Los Angeles, California . 323 also includes Hollywood, California....
     (June 13 ,1998)
  • area code 661
    Area code 661

    California area code 661 covers the majority of California's Kern County, California, as well as part of Los Angeles County, California and Tulare County, California....
     (split from 805 on February 13 ,1999)
  • area code 858
    Area code 858

    North American area code 858 is located in San Diego County, California and covers the inner northern suburbs of San Diego, California and the northern half of the city proper, including the areas of Del Mar, California, Poway, California, La Jolla, San Diego, California, Pacific Beach, San Diego, California, Clairemont, San Diego, California...
     (split from 619 on June 12 ,1999)
  • area code 951
    Area code 951

    North American area code 951 is a California telephone area code which covers western Riverside County and was split off from the area code 909 in 2004....
     (split from 909 on July 17 ,2004)
  • area code 424 (overlay of 310 created on August 26 ,2006)
  • area code 657 (overlay of 714 created on September 20 ,2007)


This area code includes East Compton
East Compton, California

East Compton, also known as East Rancho Dominguez, is a unincorporated community and census-designated place located in southern Los Angeles County, California....
, part of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, and Willowbrook
Willowbrook, California

Willowbrook is a census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, California. The population was 34,138 at the 2000 census. The community is located within the unincorporated part of South Los Angeles....
.

Trivia

  • In 1947 when area codes were first assigned, all the telephones were rotary phones that used pulse dialing. New York City received the only 5 pulse area code (212
    Area code 212

    Area code 212 is a telephone area code in New York City.New York City was originally given area code 212 when area codes were assigned in 1947, because it is the fastest area code that could be dialed with a rotary dial given the North American Numbering Plan....
    ), and the Chicago and Los Angeles areas got the only 6 pulse area codes (312
    Area code 312

    Area code 312 encompasses the Chicago Loop and surrounding areas in Chicago, Illinois, Illinois. It is roughly bounded by North Avenue on the north, Western Avenue on the west, Lake Michigan on the east, and 31st Street on the south....
     and 213 respectively).


  • By area, it is one of the smallest area codes in North America.


  • American rap group 213 is named after the area code, from when it was the area code of Long Beach
    Long Beach, California

    Long Beach is a large city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific Ocean coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about south of downtown Los Angeles....
    .


  • Singer Whitney Houston
    Whitney Houston

    Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
     mentions the area code in her song "It's Not Right But It's Okay
    It's Not Right but It's Okay

    "It's Not Right but It's Okay" is a 1999 R&B/dance song by United States singer Whitney Houston, from her fourth studio album My Love Is Your Love....
    ", "You said it was one of your friends down on 54th street, boy / So why did 213 show up on your caller ID."


  • Rapper Dr. Dre
    Dr. Dre

    Andre Romelle Young , primarily known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records, also having produced albums for and overseeing the careers of many rappers signed to tho...
     mentions the area code in his song "Still D.R.E.
    Still D.R.E.

    "Still D.R.E." is a song by Dr. Dre, released as the lead single from his multi-platinum second album 2001 . This song features Snoop Dogg on the intro, chorus and outro....
    ", "Still got love for the streets reppin' 213."


  • In their 2006 song "That's that" R.Kelly and Snoop Dogg
    Snoop Dogg

    Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg , is a Grammy Award-nominated American rapper, record producer, and actor....
     are inviting all girls to call them "Girl if you ever in the 312 /// And if you're ever in the 213"


  • The Electric Six
    Electric Six

    Electric Six is a six-piece metro Detroit, Michigan-based band that plays what has been described as a brand of rock music infused with elements of "garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal." The band met recognition in 2003 with the single "Danger! High Voltage", and subsequently recorded five full-length albums: Fire , Se?or Smoke,...
     references the Area Code in their song "I'm The Bomb", "I know you think I'm just another sucker perpetrator Livin' in the two-one-three."


See also

  • List of California area codes
    List of California area codes

    This is a list of area codes in California and when they were created:*Area code 209 - Stockton, California, Modesto, California, Merced, California; the northern San Joaquin Valley and the central Sierra Nevada range....
  • List of NANP area codes
  • North American Numbering Plan
    North American Numbering Plan

    The North American Numbering Plan is an integrated telephone numbering plan of 24 countries and territories: the United States and its Insular area, Canada, Bermuda, and 16 of the Caribbean countries....


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