Area code 313

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Area code 313 is the telephone area code serving the city of Detroit, Michigan, and the city's innermost enclave cities (Hamtramck and Highland Park), including Dearborn, Redford and Grosse Pointe. Until December 1, 1993, it served the entire Metro Detroit region plus nearby Flint and the southern part of Michigan's "Thumb", but explosive demand for new phone numbers (caused principally by the spread of fax machines and cellular phones) caused northern suburbs, Flint and the southern Thumb to adopt the new area code 810.^{[citation needed]} Later, that area would be subdivided further, into 248, largely serving Oakland County, and 586, covering Macomb County. Meanwhile on December 13, 1997, the 313 area also required an additional breakup, creating the new 734 area out of Washtenaw, Monroe, and western Wayne counties.

[edit] In popular media

The area code has been used as a cultural identifier of inner-city Detroit. Rapper Eminem's debut album, Infinite, contains a track titled "313", and in Eminem's movie 8 Mile, "the 313" is used in the protagonist's final rap battle as a toponym to identify those culturally connected to run-down parts of Detroit.^[1] The group 3 1/3 mentioned in the movie is a reference to the area code.^[2].

On Snot's debut album Get Some, the sixth track is titled "313".

[edit] See also

• List of North American area codes

[edit] External links

• Map of Michigan area codes at North American Numbering Plan Administration's website
• List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 313 area code

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