Country Calling Codes
Posted by Anandhan Subbiah on Mar 18, 2008 in Technical Articles • No commentsCountry calling codes, also known as country codes, refer to the two or three digit codes at the beginning of a telephone number that is used for telephone calls outside of a country’s (or area’s) numbering plan area codes.
Zone 1 – North American Numbering Plan Area
+1 United States of America (details)
Including U.S. territories:
+1-340 U.S. Virgin Islands
+1-670 Northern Mariana Islands
+1-671 Guam
+1-684 American Samoa
+1-787 and +1-939 Puerto Rico
+1 Canada (details)
+1-441 Bermuda
Many, but not all, Caribbean nations, with area codes:
+1-264 Anguilla
+1-268 Antigua and Barbuda
+1-242 Bahamas
+1-246 Barbados
+1-284 British Virgin Islands
+1-345 Cayman Islands
+1-767 Dominica
+1-809 and +1-829 Dominican Republic
+1-473 Grenada
+1-876 Jamaica
+1-664 Montserrat
+1-869 Saint Kitts and Nevis
+1-758 Saint Lucia
+1-784 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
+1-868 Trinidad and Tobago
+1-649 Turks and Caicos Islands
Zone 2 – Mostly Africa, some Atlantic islands
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 – Cóte d’lvoire (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
243 – Democratic Republic of the Congo (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 – unassigned, was intended for Zanzibar but never implemented – see 255 Tanzania
260 – Zambia
261 – Madagascar
262 – Réunion
263 – Zimbabwe
264 – Namibia
265 – Malawi
266 – Lesotho
267 – Botswana
268 – Swaziland
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
30 – Greece
31 – The Netherlands
32 – Belgium
33 – France
34 – Spain (See also Spain telephone numbering plan)
350 – Gibraltar
351 – Portugal
352 – Luxembourg
353 – Republic of Ireland
354 – Iceland
355 – Albania
356 – Malta
357 – Cyprus; for the TRNC (Northern Cyprus), the country code is 90 392 – see Numbering plan of Cyprus
358 – Finland
359 – Bulgaria
36 – Hungary
37 – discontinued (was assigned to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) until Apri 1992; this area is now covered by Germany’s country code 49)
370 – Lithuania
371 – Latvia
372 – Estonia
373 – Moldova
373 533 – Transnistria (unrecognized)
374 – Armenia
374 97 – Nagorno-Karabakh (unrecognized)
375 – Belarus
376 – Andorra
377 – Monaco
378 – San Marino
379 – assigned to Vatican City but uses 39 with Italy.
38 – discontinued (was assigned to Yugoslavia before break-up)
380 – Ukraine
381 – Serbia and Montenegro
382 – Montenegro but 381 will be also used until February 2007
383 – unassigned
384 – unassigned
385 – Croatia
386 – Slovenia
387 – Bosnia and Herzegovina
388 – shared code for groups of nations
388 3 – European Telephony Numbering Space – Europe-wide services
389 – Republic of Macedonia
39 – Italy and Vatican City
Zone 4 – Europe
40 – Romania
41 – Switzerland – see also Swiss telephone numbering plan
42 – previously Czechoslovakia
420 – Czech Republic
421 – Slovakia
422 – unassigned
423 – Liechtenstein
424 – unassigned
425 – unassigned
426 – unassigned
427 – unassigned
428 – unassigned
429 – unassigned
43 – Austria – see also Area codes in Austria
44 – United Kingdom – see also UK telephone numbering plan
45 – Denmark
46 – Sweden
47 – Norway – see also Norway telephone numbering plan
48 – Poland
49 – Germany
Zone 5 – Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean
500 – Falkland Islands
501 – Belize
502 – Guatemala
503 – El Salvador
504 – Honduras
505 – Nicaragua
506 – Costa Rica
507 – Panama
508 – Saint-Pierre and Miquelon – Located outside this zone, near Newfoundland, Canada
509-Haiti
51 – Peru
52 – Mexico
53 – Cuba
54 – Argentina – see also Argentine telephone numbering plan
55 – Brazil – see also Brazilian telephone numbering plan
56 – Chile
57 – Colombia – see also Colombian telephone numbering plan
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 including external territories of Christmas Island and Cocos Islands – see also Australian telephone numbering plan
62 – Indonesia
63 – Philippines
64 – New Zealand
65 – Singapore
66 – Thailand
670 – East Timor – used to be Northern Mariana Islands which is now included in NANPA as code +1-670 (See Zone 1, above)
671 – used to be Guam – Now included in NANPA as code +1-671 (See Zone 1, above)
672 – Australian external territories other than Christmas, Cocos Islands, such as Australian Antarctic Territory, 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 – used to be American Samoa – Now included in NANPA as code +1-684 (See Zone 1, above)
685 – 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 (SAR of the People’s Republic of China) – see Hong Kong telephone numbering plan
853 – Macau (SAR of the People’s Republic of China) -see Macau telephone numbering plan
854 – unassigned
855 – Cambodia
856 – Laos
857 – unassigned
858 – unassigned
859 – unassigned
86 – People’s Republic of China (mainland only) – see China telephone numbering plan
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 non-commercial purposes
880 – Bangladesh – SubCodes
881 – Global Mobile Satellite System
882 – International Networks
883 – unassigned
884 – unassigned
885 – unassigned
886 – Taiwan, Republic of China – listed by ITU as “Taiwan, China”
887 – unassigned
888 – reserved for future, unknown type of global service
889 – unassigned
89x – unassigned
Zone 9 – West, South and Central Asia, Middle East
90-Turkey
90 392 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (unrecognized)
91 – India
92 – Pakistan
93 – Afghanistan
94 – Sri Lanka
95 – Myanmar
960 – Maldives
961 – Lebanon
962 – Jordan
963 – Syria
964 – Iraq
965 – Kuwait
966 – Saudi Arabia
967 – Yemen
968 – Oman
969 – used to be People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen – now unified under 967 Yemen (formerly the Yemen Arab Republic)
970 – Palestinian Authority – This code is not officially assigned as of 1 Jan 2006, listed by ITU as ‘reserved’.
971 – United Arab Emirates
972 – Israel
973 – Bahrain
974 – Qatar
975 – Bhutan
976 – Mongolia
977 – Nepal
978 – unassigned – originally assigned to Dubai, now covered under 971
979 – International Premium Rate Service – originally assigned to Abu Dhabi, now covered under 971
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 – reserved for potential disaster relief service
Zone 0 – unassigned
Locations with no country code
Western Sahara (Moroccan-controlled locations use 212)
Antarctica–McMurdo Base, Amundsen-Scott Base, others (Dialing is dependent on parent country of each base.)
Pitcairn Island (no connections to local switching; only satellite phones are dialable)
Tristan da Cunha (reported as +290, but no direct dial connections to any local switching)
Kerguelen Archipelago
