This is a list of international dialing prefixes used in various countries for direct dialing ofinternational telephone calls . These prefixes are typically required only when dialling from alandline , while inGSM -compliant mobile phone (cell phone) systems, the symbol+ before the country code may be used irrespective of where the telephone is used at that moment; the network operator provides the access codes automatically.
Countries by international prefix [ edit ] 0 00 – the recommendedITU prefixAfrica: all countries except Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda Asia: all countries except certain countries inCentral ,East , andSoutheast Asia Europe: all countries except Abkhazia, Belarus, Russia and South Ossetia Middle East: all countries North America: all countriesnot usingNANP (Mexico, Greenland, St Pierre and Miquelon) South America: all countries except Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guyana and those usingNANP Oceania: all countries except Australia 000 001 Guyana Hong Kong (also002 –circuit switched connection for fax/data transmission) 0011 Australia (including Australian External Territories) 009 00x , wherex is a mandatory carrier selection code consisting of one or more digits010 011 – all countries and territories in theNorth American Numbering Plan :American Samoa Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Bermuda British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Guam Jamaica Micronesia Montserrat Northern Mariana Islands Palau Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sint Maarten Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands United States of America United States Virgin Islands 1xx 0 , wherexx is a mandatory carrier selection code8~10 [ notes 2] Abkhazia Belarus Kazakhstan Russia South Ossetia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Countries using carrier selection codes [ edit ] The following is a non-exhaustive list of countries that optionally allow for carrier selection in addition to using the standard prefix listed in the preceding section.
00xx , wherexx is a two-digit carrier selection code:Australia , alongside the standard prefix0011 for the default carrierHong Kong , alongside the standard prefixes001 (voice) and002 (fax/data) for the default carrier0xx , wherexx is a two-digit carrier selection code:Israel , alongside the standard prefix00 for the default carrierKazakhstan , alongside the standard prefix8~10 for the default carrierSingapore , alongside the standard prefix000 for the default carrierTurkmenistan , alongside the standard prefix8~10 for the default carrier10xx , wherexx is a two-digit carrier selection code:Georgia , alongside the standard prefix00 for the default carrier8~xx , wherexx is a two-digit carrier selection code:Russia , alongside the standard prefix8~10 for the default carrier8~26 – Arctel 8~27 – Synterra 8~28 – Comstar 8~56 – GoldenTelecom 8~57 – Transtelecom 8~58 – MTT 8~59 –Orange Business Services 99x , wherex is a carrier selection code:Finland , alongside the standard prefix00 for the default carrier, carrier selection code consisting of either a single digit (1 –4 ,6 –9 ) or three digits (511 –599 )[ 1] Historic international prefixes [ edit ] The following are international call prefixes that were used in various countries sometime in the past but are no longer used.
0 Bahrain (now 00) El Salvador (now 00) Falkland Islands (now 00) Malta (now 00) Myanmar (now 00) 00 Cambodia (now 001) Mongolia (now 001) Sint Maarten (now 011) Tanzania (now 000) 000 001 002 0030 Hong Kong (CTI, which now uses 1666) 005 007 009 Denmark, including Faeroe Islands and Greenland (now 00) Sweden (now 00) 010 05 Fiji (now 00) Papua New Guinea (now 00) 06 East Germany (now Germany 00) 07~ 09 Namibia (now 00) Netherlands (now 00) South Africa (now 00) 095 099 101 110 119 15 16 Ireland (now 00) Somalia (now 00) 19 Central African Republic (now 00) France (now 00) 800 8~10 – former Soviet UnionArmenia (now 00) Azerbaijan (now 00) Estonia (now 00) Georgia (now 00) Kyrgyzstan (now 00) Latvia (now 00) Lithuania (now 00) Moldova (now 00) Ukraine (now 00) Uzbekistan (now 00) 90 Burundi (now 00) Iceland (now 00) 95 forNANP and98 for the rest of the world99 Bosnia and Herzegovina (now 00) Croatia (now 00) India (now 00) Montenegro (now 00) North Macedonia (now 00) Serbia (now 00) Slovenia (now 00) ^a b c Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda each can be called from the other two using special short codes: 005 to call Kenya, 006 to call Uganda and 007 to call Tanzania. The shortcode is followed directly by a local number. ^ "~" means "wait for the next dial tone". Reference:Jan Goyvaerts; Steven Levithan (2009).Regular Expressions Cookbook 224 .ISBN 978-0-596-52068-7 Standards and recommendations
