Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks. Country codes are defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in ITU-T standards E.123 and E.164. The prefixes enable international direct dialing (IDD).
Country codes constitute the international telephone numbering plan. They are used only when dialing a telephone number in a country or world region other than the caller's. Country codes are dialed before the national telephone number, but require at least one additional prefix, the international call prefix which is an exit code from the national numbering plan to the international one. In most countries, this prefix is 00, an ITU recommendation; it is 011 in the countries of the North American Numbering Plan while a minority of countries use other prefixes.
Overview
The nine world zones are generally organized geographically, with exceptions for political and historical alignment.
Zone 1 uses an integrated numbering plan; four digits (1xxx) determine the area served in Canada, the United States and its territories, and much of the Caribbean.
Zone 2 uses two 2-digit codes (20, 27) and eight sets of 3-digit codes (21x–26x, 28x, 29x), mostly to serve Africa, but also Aruba, Faroe Islands, Greenland and British Indian Ocean Territory.
Zones 3 and 4 use sixteen 2-digit codes (30–34, 36, 39–41, 43–49) and four sets of 3-digit codes (35x, 37x, 38x, 42x) to serve Europe.
Zone 5 uses eight 2-digit codes (51–58) and two sets of 3-digit codes (50x, 59x) to serve South and Central America.
Zone 6 uses seven 2-digit codes (60–66) and three sets of 3-digit codes (67x–69x) to serve Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Zone 7 uses an integrated numbering plan; two digits (7x) determine the area served: Russia or Kazakhstan.
Zone 8 uses four 2-digit codes (81, 82, 84, 86) and four sets of 3-digit codes (80x, 85x, 87x, 88x) to serve East Asia, South Asia and special services. 83x and 89x are unallocated.
Zone 9 uses seven 2-digit codes (90–95, 98) and three sets of 3-digit codes (96x, 97x, 99x) to serve the Middle East, West Asia, Central Asia, parts of South Asia and Eastern Europe.
Ordered by world zone
World zones are organized principally, but only approximately, by geographic location. Exceptions exist for political and historical alignments.
Zone 1: North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
NANP members are assigned three-digit numbering plan area (NPA) codes under the common country prefix 1, shown in the format 1 (NPA).
1 North American Numbering Plan
1 – United States, including United States territories:
1 (340) – United States Virgin Islands
1 (670) – Northern Mariana Islands
1 (671) – Guam
1 (684) – American Samoa
1 (787, 939) – Puerto Rico
1 – Canada
Caribbean nations, Dutch and British Overseas Territories:
1 (242) – Bahamas
1 (246) – Barbados
1 (264) – Anguilla
1 (268) – Antigua and Barbuda
1 (284) – British Virgin Islands
1 (345) – Cayman Islands
1 (441) – Bermuda
1 (473) – Grenada
1 (649) – Turks and Caicos Islands
1 (658, 876) – Jamaica
1 (664) – Montserrat
1 (721) – Sint Maarten
1 (758) – Saint Lucia
1 (767) – Dominica
1 (784) – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1 (809, 829, 849) – Dominican Republic
1 (868) – Trinidad and Tobago
1 (869) – Saint Kitts and Nevis
Zone 2: Mostly Africa
(but also Aruba, Faroe Islands, Greenland and British Indian Ocean Territory)
20 – Egypt
210 – unassigned
211 – South Sudan
212 – Morocco (including Western Sahara)
213 – Algeria
214 – unassigned
215 – unassigned
216 – Tunisia
217 – unassigned
218 – Libya
219 – unassigned
220 – Gambia
221 – Senegal
222 – Mauritania
223 – Mali
224 – Guinea
225 – 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
244 – Angola
245 – Guinea-Bissau
246 – British Indian Ocean Territory
247 – Ascension Island
248 – Seychelles
249 – Sudan
250 – Rwanda
251 – Ethiopia
252 – Somalia (including Somaliland)
253 – Djibouti
254 – Kenya
255 – Tanzania
255 (24) – Zanzibar, in place of never-implemented 259
256 – Uganda
257 – Burundi
258 – Mozambique
259 – unassigned (was intended for People's Republic of Zanzibar but never implemented – see 255 Tanzania)
260 – Zambia
261 – Madagascar
262 – Réunion
262 (269,639) – Mayotte (formerly at 269 Comoros)
263 – Zimbabwe
264 – Namibia (formerly 27 (6x) as South West Africa)
265 – Malawi
266 – Lesotho
267 – Botswana
268 – Eswatini
269 – Comoros (formerly assigned to Mayotte, now at 262)
27 – South Africa
28x – unassigned (reserved for country code expansion)
290 – Saint Helena
290 (8) – Tristan da Cunha
291 – Eritrea
292 – unassigned
293 – unassigned
294 – unassigned
295 – unassigned (formerly assigned to San Marino, now at 378)
296 – unassigned
297 – Aruba
298 – Faroe Islands
299 – Greenland
Zones 3–4: Europe
Some of the larger countries were assigned two-digit codes to compensate for their usually longer domestic numbers. Small countries were assigned three-digit codes, which also has been the practice since the 1980s.
351 (295) – Azores (landlines only, Angra do Heroísmo area)
351 (296) – Azores (landlines only, Ponta Delgada and São Miguel Island area)
352 – Luxembourg
353 – Ireland
354 – Iceland
355 – Albania
356 – Malta
357 – Cyprus (including Akrotiri and Dhekelia)
358 – Finland
358 (18) – Åland
359 – Bulgaria
36 – Hungary (formerly assigned to Turkey, now at 90)
37 – formerly assigned to East Germany until its reunification with West Germany, now part of 49 Germany
370 – Lithuania
371 – Latvia
372 – Estonia
373 – Moldova (formerly 7/042 as Moldavian SSR)
374 – Armenia (formerly 7/885 as Armenian SSR)
375 – Belarus
376 – Andorra (formerly 33 628)
377 – Monaco (formerly 33 93)
378 – San Marino (interchangeably with 39 0549; earlier was allocated 295 but never used)
379 – Vatican City (assigned but uses 39 06698).
38 – formerly assigned to Yugoslavia until its break-up in 1991
380 – Ukraine
381 – Serbia
382 – Montenegro
383 – Kosovo
384 – unassigned
385 – Croatia
386 – Slovenia
387 – Bosnia and Herzegovina
388 – unassigned(formerly assigned to the European Telephony Numbering Space)
389 – North Macedonia
39 – Italy
39 (0549) – San Marino (interchangeably with 378)
39 (06 698) – Vatican City (assigned 379 but not in use)
40 – Romania
41 – Switzerland
41 (91) – Campione d'Italia, an Italian enclave. 91 is actually the prefix for the Swiss canton Ticino in which the enclave resides. Its phone system is fully integrated into the Swiss system.
42 – formerly assigned to Czechoslovakia, later to its breakup successors (CZ, SK) until 1997
420 – Czech Republic
421 – Slovakia
422 – unassigned
423 – Liechtenstein (formerly at 41 (75))
424 – unassigned
425 – unassigned
426 – unassigned
427 – unassigned
428 – unassigned
429 – unassigned
43 – Austria
44 – United Kingdom
44 (1481) – Guernsey
44 (1534) – Jersey
44 (1624) – Isle of Man
45 – Denmark
46 – Sweden
47 – Norway
47 (79) – Svalbard
48 – Poland
49 – Germany
Zone 5: South and Central Americas
500 – Falkland Islands
500 – South Georgia and the South Sandwich 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 (including Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)
591 – Bolivia
592 – Guyana
593 – Ecuador
594 – French Guiana
595 – Paraguay
596 – Martinique (formerly assigned to Peru, now 51)
597 – Suriname
598 – Uruguay
599 – Former Netherlands Antilles, now grouped as follows:
599 3 – Sint Eustatius
599 4 – Saba
599 5 – unassigned (formerly assigned to Sint Maarten, now included in NANP as 1 (721))
599 7 – Bonaire
599 8 – unassigned (formerly assigned to Aruba, now at 297)
599 9 – Curaçao
Zone 6: Southeast Asia and Oceania
60 – Malaysia
61 – Australia (see also 672 below)
61 (8 9162) – Cocos Islands
61 (8 9164) – Christmas Island
62 – Indonesia
63 – Philippines
64 – New Zealand
64 – Pitcairn Islands
65 – Singapore
66 – Thailand
670 – East Timor (formerly 62/39 during the Indonesian occupation;formerlyassigned toNorthern Mariana Islands,now part ofNANP as 1 (670))
671 – unassigned (formerlyassigned toGuam, now part of NANP as 1 (671))
672 – Australian External Territories (see also 61 Australia above); formerly assigned to Portuguese Timor (see 670)
672 (1) – Australian Antarctic Territory
672 (3) – Norfolk Island
673 – Brunei
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
684 – unassigned (formerly assigned to American Samoa, now part of NANP as 1 (684))
685 – Samoa
686 – Kiribati
687 – New Caledonia
688 – Tuvalu
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 neighboring regions
Formerly assigned to the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991.
7 (1–5, 8, 9) – Russia
7 (840, 940) – Abkhazia (formerly 995 (44))
7 (850, 929) – South Ossetia (formerly 995 (34))
7 (6, 7) – Kazakhstan (reserved 997 but abandoned in November 2023)
Zone 8: East Asia, South Asia, and special services
800 – Universal International Freephone Service
801 – unassigned
802 – unassigned
803 – unassigned
804 – unassigned
805 – unassigned
806 – unassigned
807 – unassigned
808 – Universal International Shared Cost Numbers
809 – unassigned
81 – Japan
82 – South Korea
83x – unassigned (reserved for country code expansion)
84 – Vietnam
850 – North Korea
851 – unassigned
852 – Hong Kong
853 – Macau
854 – unassigned
855 – Cambodia
856 – Laos
857 – unassigned (formerly assigned to ANAC satellite service)
858 – unassigned (formerly assigned to ANAC satellite service)
859 – unassigned
86 – China
870 – Global Mobile Satellite System (Inmarsat)
871 – unassigned (formerly assigned to Inmarsat Atlantic East, discontinued in 2008)
872 – unassigned (formerly assigned to Inmarsat Pacific, discontinued in 2008)
873 – unassigned (formerly assigned to Inmarsat Indian, discontinued in 2008)
874 – unassigned (formerly assigned to Inmarsat Atlantic West, discontinued in 2008)
875 – unassigned (reserved for future maritime mobile service)
876 – unassigned (reserved for future maritime mobile service)
877 – unassigned (reserved for future maritime mobile service)
878 – unassigned (formerly used for Universal Personal Telecommunications Service, discontinued in 2022)
879 – unassigned (reserved for national non-commercial purposes)
880 – Bangladesh
881 – Global Mobile Satellite System
882 – International Networks
883 – International Networks
884 – unassigned
885 – unassigned
886 – Taiwan
887 – unassigned
888 – unassigned (formerly assigned to OCHA for Telecommunications for Disaster Relief service)
889 – unassigned
89x – unassigned (reserved for country code expansion)
Zone 9: West, Central, and South Asia, and part of Eastern Europe
90 – Turkey
90 (392) – Northern Cyprus
91 – India
91 (191) – Jammu
91 (194) – Kashmir
92 – Pakistan
92 (581) – Gilgit Baltistan
92 (582) – Azad Kashmir
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 – unassigned (formerly assigned to South Yemen until its unification with North Yemen, now part of 967 Yemen)
970 – Palestine (interchangeably with 972)
971 – United Arab Emirates
972 – Israel (also Palestine, interchangeably with 970)
973 – Bahrain
974 – Qatar
975 – Bhutan
976 – Mongolia
977 – Nepal
978 – unassigned (formerly assigned to Dubai, now part of 971 United Arab Emirates)
979 – Universal International Premium Rate Service (UIPRS);(formerly assigned to Abu Dhabi, now part of 971 United Arab Emirates)
98 – Iran
990 – unassigned
991 – unassigned (formerly used for International Telecommunications Public Correspondence Service)
992 – Tajikistan
993 – Turkmenistan
994 – Azerbaijan
995 – Georgia
995 (34) – formerly South Ossetia (now 7 (850, 929))
995 (44) – formerly Abkhazia(now 7 (840, 940))
996 – Kyrgyzstan
997 – Kazakhstan (reserved but abandoned in November 2023; uses 7 (6xx, 7xx))
998 – Uzbekistan
999 – unassigned (reserved for future global service)
Alphabetical order
Summary
This table lists in its first column the initial digits of the country code shared by each country in each row, which is arranged in columns for the last digit. When three-digit codes share a common leading pair, the two-digit code is unassigned, being ambiguous (denoted by "ambig."). Unassigned codes are denoted by a dash (—). Countries are identified by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes; codes for non-geographic services are denoted by two asterisks (**).
Locations with no country code
In Antarctica, telecommunication services are provided by the parent country of each base:
Other places with no country codes in use, although a code may be reserved:
See also
List of mobile telephone prefixes by country
National conventions for writing telephone numbers
References
External links
"List of ITU-T Recommendation E.164 Dialling Procedures as of 15 December 2011" (PDF). ITU. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 October 2022.
International Telecommunication Union (15 December 2016). "Complement to Recommendation ITU-T E.164 (11/2010) – List of Recommendation ITU-T E.164 Assigned Country Codes (Position on 15 December 2016)" (PDF). ITU Operational Bulletin (1114). Geneva: Annex. ISSN 1564-5223. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
"Telephone and Internet Country Codes in 10 Languages". LincMad.
"World Telephone Numbering Guide". World Telephone Number Guide. Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2006.
"Phone calling codes of all countries with ISO3 and flags + phone codes of cities by countries".