Area code 225

225 is the North American telephone area code for part of southern Louisiana, including the entire nine-parish Baton Rouge Metropolitan Area. The area code was Louisiana's third area code, and the first new area code in the state in forty-one years. Area code 225 split from area code 504 during 1998/99. The numbers 2-2-5 correspond on the alpha-numeric keyboard to the letters C-A-J; a nod to the area's Cajun heritage.

The area code has become part of the regional identity for the Baton Rouge metropolitan area, to the extent that there is a local news magazine named 225 magazine published by Louisiana Business Inc.[1]

The area code covers the parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. James, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana.

Cities in the 225 area code

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.225batonrouge.com/circulation

External links

Louisiana area codes: 225, 318, 337, 504, 985
North: 601/769
West: 318, 337 area code 225 East: 985
South: 985
Mississippi area codes: 228, 601, 662, 769

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