Pick 701 for Fargo or Grand Forks.
Fargo and Grand Forks use the same code as every other town in North Dakota.
North Dakota has one area code: 701.
Area codes in North Dakota
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701 is the only area code in North Dakota, and it covers the whole state, from Fargo and Grand Forks to Bismarck, Minot and Williston.
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North Dakota has one area code.
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701
701 is the only area code in North Dakota.
North Dakota has used 701 alone since 1947.
Pick 701, the one code North Dakota has.
Pick 701 for Bismarck, Minot or Williston.
There is no second code in the state, so a number for any of these towns begins with 701.
People filed 58 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from North Dakota area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 58 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with the North Dakota code.
- 58unwanted-call complaints named a North Dakota code
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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People ask these questions about North Dakota area codes.
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Yes. Fargo uses 701, like Bismarck, Grand Forks, Minot and Williston.
No. Both are on 701, the single code of the state.
North Dakota has one area code, 701, in service since 1947, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026.
North Dakota has one area code, 701, in service since 1947. North Dakota has used 701 alone since 1947.
A local call in North Dakota is dialed with seven digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 58 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a North Dakota code. The only one named was 701 (58). 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.
Yes. You type the area code you want when you create a number, and you do not need to live in North Dakota. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
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The codes, the places and the years are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database (its report of October 23, 2026), and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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