area code 828

{{Short description|Area code for western North Carolina, United States}}

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Area code 828 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for most of the western third of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The numbering plan area (NPA) comprises the Blue Ridge Mountains and most of the Foothills. The largest city is Asheville.

Area code 828 was split from the 704 numbering plan area on March 22, 1998, to provide relief from numbering plan exhaustion brought about by the popularity of pagers and cell phones.{{Cite web

|url=https://www.nationalnanpa.com/pdf_previous/pl-nanp-105.pdf

|title=NANP-Split of 704 (North Carolina) Numbering Plan Area (NPA)

|publisher=NANPA

|date=1998-01-08

|access-date=2023-02-16

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