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119

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English

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Etymology

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Variant of 911, which see.

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119

  1. The telephone number for law enforcement in Jamaica, Mozambique, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
  2. The telephone number for ambulance services in Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea and on Taiwan.
    119 handles fires and medical emergencies in Japan and Korea but the police have a separate number, 110.
  3. The telephone number for firefighting assistance in China, Bolivia, Japan, and South Korea.
  4. The telephone number for antiterrorist services in Afghanistan.
  5. (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) The telephone number for COVID-19 emergencies in the United Kingdom's Home Counties.

Coordinate terms

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  • (Australia) 000
  • (Mongolia) 105
  • (China, Iran) 110
  • (New Zealand) 111
  • (European Union) 112
  • (North America) 911
  • (UK, Ireland) 999

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Chinese

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Etymology

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119 (緊急電話冧巴) / 119 (紧急电话冧巴) on the Cantonese Wikipedia.Wikipedia zh-yue

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119

  1. (People's Republic of China, Republic of China) 119: in mainland China (People's Republic of China) and Taiwan (Republic of China) the emergency telephone number for firefighting