What is what area code is 980?

Area code 980 is an overlay area code serving much of the same territory as area codes 704 and 828 in North Carolina. It was introduced to alleviate the exhaustion of numbers within those existing area codes. Therefore, it doesn't represent a specific geographic region in isolation, but rather shares its territory with the other two. You'll find 980 numbers used throughout a large portion of western North Carolina, including Charlotte and its surrounding suburbs.