Country Calling Codes

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah on Mar 18, 2008 in Technical ArticlesNo comments

Country 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

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