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Country codes are agreed via the ITU, an agency of the UN. Country codes beginning with +9 are in southern, central, and western Asia, and India is the largest country in that region, so it got +91.

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Telephone country codes were assigned in geographic blocks. The +9 block is for western Asia. Because of its size and prominence, India was assigned +91.

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