Find any 242- phone number in The Bahamas

The 242 area code is used to designate the Bahamas. It is part of the North American Numbering Plan, which assigns three-digit area codes to telephone systems across the continent. The numbering plan was first established to ease the burden of manual operators in the 1930s, and has since grown to encompass hundreds of area codes traveling across the US, Canada, and various Caribbean countries.

The 242 area code serves Nassau, Freeport, West End, and other Bahamian cities. As is standard in the US and Canada, numbers with this area code make up the core of theBahamian phone system. All Bahamian telephone numbers consist of eleven digits, with a two-digit area code that always begins with 242 followed by a seven-digit number that includes a four-digit exchange code. Cell phone numbers within the Bahamas have a digit in the first position rather than the area code.