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
