Area Code 228 was created in 1997 for serving the Mississippi State of United States. The particular code was created as a result in split of area code 601. The Code 601 is one of the original area codes and served the State without any change until 1997. The original code was getting exhausted because of the ever increasing demands for telephone lines and the area was running out of available telephone numbers. To deal with the problem it was decided to split off area code 601.
The State of Mississippi is one of the East South Central States - one of the nine geographic divisions of United States of America. There are total four States making up the particular division:
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