Pick 706 if the number should read as Columbus.
The Georgia Public Service Commission names Columbus among the major cities of 706, with Athens, Augusta, Rome and Dalton.
The area codes for Columbus, Georgia are 706 and 762.
Area codes in Columbus, Georgia
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Columbus, Georgia is in 706, split from 404 in 1992, and 762, laid over it in 2006. 706 covers the northern half of the state and a western piece around Columbus.
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Pick 706 for Columbus, Georgia, or 762 for the code laid over it.
Pick 762 if the number should look newer.
762 entered service on May 16, 2006, six weeks after ten digits became mandatory for local calls.
Pick 404 if the number is for Atlanta.
Metro Atlanta kept 404 when 706 was split from it on May 3, 1992.
People filed 240 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Columbus, Georgia area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 240 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 706 and 762. 706 was named most, on 153 of them (64%).
- 240unwanted-call complaints named a Columbus, Georgia code
- 706was named on the most of them, 153
- 64%of the Columbus, Georgia complaints named 706
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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No. Metro Atlanta has its own codes. Columbus has used 706 since 1992.
No. They are different cities. Columbus, Ohio, uses 614 and 380 and has its own page here.
A local call in Columbus, Georgia is dialed with ten digits, whichever of its codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 240 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Columbus, Georgia code: 706 (153) and 762 (87). A complaint is one person's report. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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The codes, the places and the years are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database, and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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