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Yellow pages vs white pages8/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In Japan, the yellow pages are known as Town Page. In Spain, Chile, Peru, Argentina and other countries in Latin America, the yellow pages are known as "páginas amarillas". In Portugal and Brazil, the yellow pages are known as Páginas Amarelas. In Austria and Germany, the yellow pages are known as Gelbe Seiten, and in Sweden as Gula Sidorna, which in both cases means the yellow pages. In Belgium, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, and Romania, the yellow pages are known as the Golden Pages. They are edited by many different phone companies and directory publishers, mostly independent from each other. ![]() Telephone directories using the official internet address "yellowpages.xx" exist in 75 different countries. The term Yellow Pages is not a registered name within the United States and is freely used by many companies. In the United States, it refers to the category, while in some other countries it is a registered name and therefore a proper noun. Today, the expression yellow pages is used globally, in both English-speaking and non-English speaking countries. Donnelley created the first official Yellow Pages directory, inventing an industry. The name and concept of "yellow pages" came about in 1883, when a printer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, working on a regular telephone directory ran out of white paper and used yellow paper instead. ![]()
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