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The 951 area code is a telephone numbering plan code that covers western Riverside County, California. It was created in 1998 as part of a geographic split to alleviate the overcrowding in the original 909 area code. This area code, as is true of all North American area codes, was structured using the NANP (North American Numbering Plan), a system in which each area code consists of a three-digit central office (or CO) code and a three-digit local number.

The purpose of the NANP is to provide a uniform and predictable structure to facilitate dialing of calls in the North American region, determined by the normalizing of telephone number lengths and the avoidance of patterns that might confuse callers. There are 86 active area codes across Canada, the United States and its territories as of 2021, with multiple codes floating in reserve in the case of any new geographic splits or area code exhaustions. This will help to meet the growing needs of the public for years to come.