Area code 856
Telephone area code for southwestern New Jersey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Area code 856 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the southwestern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey. The numbering plan area (NPA) includes the Camden, Cherry Hill, and Vineland areas and a small part of Willingboro Township and the western part of Burlington County. 856 is essentially coextensive with the New Jersey side of the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
The area code was created in 1999 in a split of area code 609.[1]