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Can you name the major U.S. cities associated with these telephone area codes? Enter a major city in the box below Correctly named cities will show up in the table below Click any empty Area Code or Major City to answer for that location This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Booger Also try naming all the area codes You have 8 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today The Impossible Quiz 15324 Top Food Chains (US) 11155 States by Capital 9897 Best Actress Nominations (90s) 8087 1-100 4419 NFL Rushing TDs (2000s) 4293 And more...
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Area Code	Major City
202
206
210
212
213
214
215
216
303
305
312
313
314

Area Code	Major City
317
401
404
407
410
412
414
415
501
503
504
513
602

Area Code	Major City
612
615
617
619
702
704
713
801
808
813
816
901
907

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	Tchaikovsky08:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 08:52 GMT	3 points
	Maybe pre-cell phone I would've gotten more than 4, but there's no real reason to know area codes nowadays...

	Kicking222:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 09:05 GMT	1 point
	Without guessing, I knew four. And it just wasn't worth guessing.

	marpocky:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 09:19 GMT	1 point
	Through pure diligence I got 34, and the 5 I didn't get were cities that would have taken me a while to consider trying.

	ruffnerj:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 09:21 GMT	2 points
	I have cell phone contacts in 23 of these area codes, but I only got 18 right...

	sammyhain2364:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 09:33 GMT	2 points
	Flat out guessed to get the top five frequently most answered and knew 612. Wasn't able to get any of the rest.

	BentKangaroo:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 09:59 GMT	4 points
	The only one I knew besides my home town was 213, thanks to Warren G :)

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	HollywoodLeo:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 11:26 GMT	1 point
	I only actually knew a few, but I got a lot just by cutting and pasting big cities on all of them until they popped up. Ran out of time with 8 left.

	HollywoodLeo:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 11:27 GMT	4 points
	@chillicothe20, the city's name is not Tampa Bay. It's just Tampa. Tampa Bay is the name of the body of water it's next to.

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	davidr:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 14:04 GMT	10 points
	@Lachlan: It's not an "american centric" quiz. It's a quiz about America.

	davidr:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 14:07 GMT	3 points
	@Matthew: Search terms are for Google, not Sporcle. "First President of the USA" is a logical search term for George Washington but you wouldn't accept that in the Presidents quiz, right?

	davidr:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 15:02 GMT	5 points
	@Jessica E.B.: There are thirty-nine cities in this quiz. The Providence metro area is the thirty-sixth largest in the country.

	Booger:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 17:14 GMT	10 points
	There is no city called Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay is a body of water. The city is Tampa. Tampa Bay encompasses both sides of the bay. The other side of the bay, the St. Petersburg side, has a different area code.

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	brrap_brrap:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 21:10 GMT	3 points
	Only one I got was 619 - San Diego because of my days spent watching the WWE and Rey Mysterio in the early 2000's...sigh

	Mr. Freeze:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 21:52 GMT	6 points
	@Matthew - if you knew it was Tampa Bay and typed in Tampa--it would register as a correct answer. just because you couldn't cheat and copy paste tampa bay into all categories to get an answer shouldn't be a reason to change the quiz

	HollywoodLeo:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 21:59 GMT	4 points
	Hey now. Copying and pasting a city into every one until it pops up is not cheating. It's ingenuity.

	davidr:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 22:19 GMT	5 points
	@Cuthbert T.: Sure, big cities have more than one code. But the question is `Which city has area code 202?' and that question is still valid, even if that city has other codes, too.

	zalagreensbury:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 23:16 GMT	1 point
	The only one I got...no shocker was NYC...I fail.

	AntieAnnie:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 23:28 GMT	1 point
	Happy to have gotten 10. Guess I'm so old that I actually remember the codes from old jobs, friends, etc.

	Cuthbert_Twilley:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 00:32 GMT	-2 points
	@davidr: I agree, the question is valid. However, I think the spirit of the quiz would be better served were it to include the other area codes for the cities in the quiz. The vast majority of the city of Chicago has the area code 773, so I think the quiz as it stands is disingenuous. Same thing for LA and NYC.

	Cuthbert_Twilley:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 00:32 GMT	-1 points
	Oh, and 202 is the only area code for its city.

	wdcvhi:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 00:59 GMT	1 point
	Only got DC and NYC, not easy by any stretch.

	davidr:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 01:37 GMT	3 points
	@Cuthbert T.: I was just using 202 as an example, since I have no idea which of these codes are the only ones for their city. I suppose it would have been clearer if I'd written, `whether that city has other codes or not.'

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	Pat Lisner:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 01:55 GMT	6 points
	@Lachlan: I think Americans have a term for elitist bores like you. It sounds like pompous glass.

	Klingsta:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 02:29 GMT	-3 points
	Eminem & 8 Mile. Now everybody from the 313 put ya motha ****in' hands up and follow meee

	davidr:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 02:42 GMT	8 points
	@Lachlan: Actually, I'm English and have also lived in Greece.

	tcalleen:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 04:39 GMT	5 points
	@Lachlan: Actually, if you want to be accurate, it would be United States-centric. If you do some of the geography quizzes, you might notice that America is actually a continent, not a country - specifically two continents, both of which have more than the United States included!

	mschrist:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 05:45 GMT	6 points
	Got only 13, some using a trick to guessing these that I learned from a Douglas Coupland novel. The sum of the digits--zeros count as 10--equals the importance of the city circa 1950. New York is most important and has the lowest sum: 2+1+2=5. Chicago and L.A. are next at 6. D.C. is all the way down at 14, since zeros count as 10: 2+10+2=14.

	HollywoodLeo:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 05:48 GMT	2 points
	You gotta love the irony of Lachlan's whining. He's coming off as the elitist prick he's trying to portray American's as. Hilarious irony at its finest.

	Sputnik:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 08:02 GMT	1 point
	Wow, there were only two that I knew for sure...and one of them is the one that is guessed right the least...of course it helps that it is my area code. Its also tattooed on Darren McFadden's arm. At one point in time, 501 was the entire state of Arkansas though...now there's about 6 area codes for the state, but I'm still on the edge of the 501, baby! YAY! Arkansas in a quiz, thanks Sporkle!

	HollywoodLeo:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 08:18 GMT	2 points
	What part of Arkansas do you live in, Sputnik? We only have 3 area codes that I'm aware of. 501, 479, and 870.

	HollywoodLeo:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 08:26 GMT	1 point
	And Sporcle already has the city I live in in a quiz. http://www.sporcle.com/games/us_nationalparks.php

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	davidr:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 14:08 GMT	1 point
	@Leo: The codes quiz (linked from the top of this page) says Arkansas has three codes, yes.