Country calling code - Definition and Overview

This is a list of country calling codes, also known as international direct dialing (IDD) codes, which are needed to access international telephone services. The numbers are assigned by the International Telecommunication Union in standard E.164.

The numbers are a prefix code so that no number has an initial segment that is an existing shorter number. This code is used to dial into the country specified; each country also has an international call prefix used to dial out of the country.

Interaction with national area codes

Some countries (for example, Germany and the United Kingdom) require the caller to omit the leading "0" of the national area code when used internationally. This is because the leading zero is an indicator that a national prefix follows, rather than simply a local number. This is similar to the use of a trunk code in countries such as the United States, which uses a leading "1" to indicate that a national area code follows, except that the trunk code has been absorbed into the area code, for presentational reasons. For international dialing, the national prefix is always used, and so the trunk code is not needed. For example, to call the subscriber in Germany with the national telephone number 089 123456, somebody outside of Germany would have to dial +49 89 123456, where the + stands for the international call prefix. However, this does not apply to all countries (e.g. Italy).

At a glance

In depth

Zone 1 – North American Numbering Plan Area

(nanpa.com (http://www.nanpa.com/))

• United States of America
  • Including U.S. territories in the Pacific Islands:
    • Guam (671)
    • Northern Mariana Islands (670)
    • American Samoa (684) (effective October 2, 2004)
• Canada
• Many, but not all, Caribbean nations, with area codes:
  • Anguilla (264)
  • Antigua and Barbuda (268)
  • Bahamas (242)
  • Barbados (246)
  • Bermuda (441)
  • British Virgin Islands (284)
  • Cayman Islands (345)
  • Dominica (767)
  • Dominican Republic (809); (829) to be added as an overlay effective January 31, 2005
  • Grenada (473)
  • Jamaica (876)
  • Montserrat (664)
  • Puerto Rico (787)/(939)
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis (869)
  • Saint Lucia (758)
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (784)
  • Trinidad and Tobago (868)
  • Turks and Caicos Islands (649)
  • U.S. Virgin Islands (340)

Zone 2 – Mostly Africa

• 20 – Egypt
• 210 – unassigned
• 211 – unassigned
• 212 – Morocco
• 213 – Algeria
• 214 – unassigned
• 215 – unassigned
• 216 – Tunisia
• 217 – unassigned
• 218 – Libya
• 219 – unassigned
• 220 – The Gambia
• 221 – Senegal

• 222 – Mauritania
• 223 – Mali
• 224 – Guinea
• 225 – Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
• 226 – Burkina Faso
• 227 – Niger
• 228 – Togo
• 229 – Benin
• 230 – Mauritius
• 231 – Liberia
• 232 – Sierra Leone
• 233 – Ghana
• 234 – Nigeria
• 235 – Chad
• 236 – Central African Republic
• 237 – Cameroon
• 238 – Cape Verde
• 239 – São Tomé and Príncipe
• 240 – Equatorial Guinea
• 241 – Gabon
• 242 – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)
• 243 – Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire)
• 244 – Angola
• 245 – Guinea-Bissau
• 246 – Diego Garcia
• 247 – Ascension Island
• 248 – Seychelles
• 249 – Sudan
• 250 – Rwanda
• 251 – Ethiopia
• 252 – Somalia
• 253 – Djibouti
• 254 – Kenya
• 255 – Tanzania
• 256 – Uganda
• 257 – Burundi
• 258 – Mozambique
• 259 – Zanzibar - never implemented - see 255 Tanzania
• 260 – Zambia
• 261 – Madagascar
• 262 – Réunion
• 263 – Zimbabwe
• 264 – Namibia
• 265 – Malawi
• 266 – Lesotho
• 267 – Botswana
• 268 – Swaziland
• 269 – Comoros and Mayotte
• 27 – South Africa
• 28x – unassigned
• 290 – Saint Helena
• 291 – Eritrea
• 292 – unassigned
• 293 – unassigned
• 294 – unassigned
• 295 – discontinued (was assigned to San Marino, see +378)
• 296 – unassigned
• 297 – Aruba
• 298 – Faroe Islands
• 299 – Greenland

Zone 3 – Europe

• 3 – unassigned (proposed in 1996 as the European Union country code)
• 30 – Greece
• 31 – Netherlands
• 32 – Belgium
• 33 – France
• 34 – Spain
• 350 – Gibraltar
• 351 – Portugal
• 352 – Luxembourg
• 353 – Republic of Ireland
• 354 – Iceland
• 355 – Albania
• 356 – Malta
• 357 – Cyprus Turkish-occupied area accessed via Turkey's country code 90
• 358 – Finland
• 359 – Bulgaria
• 36 – Hungary
• 37 – discontinued (was assigned to the GDR, area now covered by Germany's country code 49)
• 370 – Lithuania
• 371 – Latvia
• 372 – Estonia
• 373 – Moldova
• 374 – Armenia
• 375 – Belarus
• 376 – Andorra
• 377 – Monaco
• 378 – San Marino
• 379 – Vatican City
• 38 – discontinued (was assigned to Yugoslavia before break-up)
• 380 – Ukraine
• 381 – Serbia and Montenegro
• 382 – unassigned
• 383 – unassigned
• 384 – unassigned
• 385 – Croatia
• 386 – Slovenia
• 387 – Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 388 – European Telephony Numbering Space - Europe-wide services
• 389 – Republic of Macedonia
• 39 – Italy

Zone 4 – Europe

• 40 – Romania
• 41 – Switzerland
• 42 – used to be Czechoslovakia
• 420 – Czech Republic
• 421 – Slovakia
• 422 – unassigned
• 423 – Liechtenstein
• 424 – unassigned
• 425 – unassigned
• 426 – unassigned
• 427 – unassigned
• 428 – unassigned
• 429 – unassigned
• 43 – Austria
• 44 – United Kingdom
• 45 – Denmark
• 46 – Sweden
• 47 – Norway
• 48 – Poland
• 49 – Germany

Zone 5 – Mexico, Central and South America, West Indies

• 500 – Falkland Islands
• 501 – Belize
• 502 – Guatemala
• 503 – El Salvador
• 504 – Honduras
• 505 – Nicaragua
• 506 – Costa Rica
• 507 – Panama
• 508 – Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
• 509 – Haiti
• 51 – Peru
• 52 – Mexico
• 53 – Cuba
• 54 – Argentina
• 55 – Brazil
• 56 – Chile
• 57 – Colombia
• 58 – Venezuela
• 590 – Guadeloupe
• 591 – Bolivia
• 592 – Guyana
• 593 – Ecuador
• 594 – French Guiana
• 595 – Paraguay
• 596 – Martinique
• 597 – Suriname
• 598 – Uruguay
• 599 – Netherlands Antilles

Zone 6 – South Pacific and Oceania

• 60 – Malaysia
• 61 – Australia and Christmas, Cocos Islands
• 62 – Indonesia
• 63 – Philippines
• 64 – New Zealand
• 65 – Singapore
• 66 – Thailand
• 670 – East Timor - used to be Northern Mariana Islands which are now code 1 670
• 671 – used to be Guam - now code 1 671
• 672 – Australian External Territories: Antarctica, Norfolk Island
• 673 – Brunei Darussalam
• 674 – Nauru
• 675 – Papua New Guinea
• 676 – Tonga
• 677 – Solomon Islands
• 678 – Vanuatu
• 679 – Fiji
• 680 – Palau
• 681 – Wallis and Futuna
• 682 – Cook Islands
• 683 – Niue Island
• 684 – American Samoa– changed to code 1 684 on 2 October 2004; now in transition period
• 685 – Western Samoa
• 686 – Kiribati, Gilbert Islands
• 687 – New Caledonia
• 688 – Tuvalu, Ellice Islands
• 689 – French Polynesia
• 690 – Tokelau
• 691 – Federated States of Micronesia
• 692 – Marshall Islands
• 693 – unassigned
• 694 – unassigned
• 695 – unassigned
• 696 – unassigned
• 697 – unassigned
• 698 – unassigned
• 699 – unassigned

Zone 7 – Russia and its vicinity (former Soviet Union)

• 7 – Russia, Kazakhstan.

Zone 8 – East Asia and Special Services

• 800 – International Freephone (UIFN)
• 801 – unassigned
• 802 – unassigned
• 803 – unassigned
• 804 – unassigned
• 805 – unassigned
• 806 – unassigned
• 807 – unassigned
• 808 – reserved for Shared Cost Services
• 809 – unassigned
• 81 – Japan
• 82 – South Korea
• 83x – unassigned
• 84 – Vietnam
• 850 – North Korea
• 851 – unassigned
• 852 – Hong Kong
• 853 – Macao
• 854 – unassigned
• 855 – Cambodia
• 856 – Laos
• 857 – unassigned
• 858 – unassigned
• 859 – unassigned
• 86 – Mainland China
• 870 – Inmarsat "SNAC" service
• 871 – Inmarsat (Atlantic East)
• 872 – Inmarsat (Pacific)
• 873 – Inmarsat (Indian)
• 874 – Inmarsat (Atlantic West)
• 875 – reserved for Maritime Mobile service
• 876 – reserved for Maritime Mobile service
• 877 – reserved for Maritime Mobile service
• 878 – Universal Personal Telecommunications services
• 879 – reserved for national mobile/maritime uses
• 880 – Bangladesh
• 881 – Mobile Satellite System
• 882 – International Networks
• 883 – unassigned
• 884 – unassigned
• 885 – unassigned
• 886 – Taiwan Code not officially assigned, listed by ITU as 'reserved'.
• 887 – unassigned
• 888 – unassigned
• 889 – unassigned
• 89x – unassigned

Zone 9 – West and South Asia, Middle East

• 90 – Turkey
• 91 – India
• 92 – Pakistan
• 93 – Afghanistan
• 94 – Sri Lanka
• 95 – Burma (Myanmar)
• 960 – Maldives
• 961 – Lebanon
• 962 – Jordan
• 963 – Syria
• 964 – Iraq
• 965 – Kuwait
• 966 – Saudi Arabia
• 967 – Yemen
• 968 – Oman
• 969 – used to be Yemen Democratic Republic - now unified under 967 Yemen
• 970 – reserved for the Palestinian Authority
• 971 – United Arab Emirates
• 972 – Israel
• 973 – Bahrain
• 974 – Qatar
• 975 – Bhutan
• 976 – Mongolia
• 977 – Nepal
• 978 – unassigned
• 979 – International Premium Rate Service
• 98 – Iran
• 990 – unassigned
• 991 – International Telecommunications Public Correspondence Service trial (ITPCS)
• 992 – Tajikistan
• 993 – Turkmenistan
• 994 – Azerbaijan
• 995 – Georgia
• 996 – Kyrgyzstan
• 997 – unassigned
• 998 – Uzbekistan
• 999 – unassigned

Zero (0) is unassigned.

See also

• E.164
• Area_code
• Country codes
• Telephone number

External links

• List of ITU-T Recommendation E.164 Assigned Country Codes (Position on 1 May 2002) (http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/ob-lists/icc/e164_763.html)
• Many details about the numbering systems of individual countries can be found at the World Telephone Numbering Guide (http://www.wtng.info/)