International Country Codes
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1 North America 
7 Russia, [*] Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, (Uzbekistan - 998) 
20 Egypt 
27 South Africa 
30 Greece 
31 Netherlands 
32 Belgium 
33 France 
34 Spain 
36 Hungary 
39 Italy 
40 Romania 
41 Switzerland, (Liecht.) 
42 DISCONTINUED [*] 
43 Austria 
44 United Kingdom 
45 Denmark 
46 Sweden 
47 Norway 
48 Poland 
49 Germany 
51 Peru 
52 Mexico 
53 Cuba 
54 Argentina 
55 Brazil 
56 Chile 
57 Colombia 
58 Venezuela 
60 Malaysia 
61 Australia 
62 Indonesia, East Timor 
63 Philippines 
64 New Zealand 
65 Singapore 
66 Thailand 
81 Japan 
82 Korea (South) 
84 Viet Nam 
86 (People's Rep.) China 
90 Turkey 
91 India 
92 Pakistan 
93 Afghanistan 
94 Sri Lanka 
95 Myanmar (Burma) 
98 Iran 

212 Morocco [*] 
213 Algeria [*] 
216 Tunisia [*] 
218 Libya [*] 
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 Rep. 
237 Cameroon 
238 Cape Verde 
239 So Tom & Princip 
240 Equatorial Guinea 
241 Gabon 
242 Congo 
243 Zaire 
244 Angola 
245 Guinea-Bissau 
246 Diego Garcia 
247 Ascension 
248 Seychelles 
249 Sudan 
250 Rwanda 
251 Ethiopia 
252 Somalia 
253 Djibouti 
254 Kenya 
255 Tanzania [*] 
256 Uganda 
257 Burundi 
258 Mozambique 
260 Zambia 
261 Madagascar 
262 Reunion Island 
263 Zimbabwe 
264 Namibia 
265 Malawi 
266 Lesotho 
267 Botswana 
268 Swaziland 
269 Mayotte, Comoros Is. 
290 Saint Helena 
291 Eritrea 
297 Aruba 
298 Froe Islands 
299 Greenland [*] 

350 Gibraltar 
351 Portugal 
352 Luxembourg 
353 Ireland 
354 Iceland 
355 Albania 
356 Malta 
357 Cyprus 
358 Finland 
359 Bulgaria 
370 Lithuania 
371 Latvia 
372 Estonia 
373 Moldova 
374 Armenia 
375 Belarus 
376 Andorra 
377 Monaco 
378 San Marino (use +39) [*] 
379 Vatican City (use +39) [*] 
380 Ukraine 
381 Yugoslavia 
385 Croatia 
386 Slovenia 
387 Bosnia - Herzegovina 
389 (FYR) Macedonia 

420 Czech Republic [*] 
421 Slovakia [*] 
423 Liecht. (use +41) [*] 
500 Falkland Islands 
501 Belize 
502 Guatemala 
503 El Salvador 
504 Honduras 
505 Nicaragua 
506 Costa Rica 
507 Panama 
508 St Pierre & Miqulon 
509 Haiti 

590 Guadeloupe 
591 Bolivia 
592 Guyana 
593 Ecuador 
594 Guiana (French) 
595 Paraguay 
596 Martinique 
597 Suriname 
598 Uruguay 
599 Netherlands Antilles 

670 DISCONTINUED [*] 
671 DISCONTINUED [*] 
672 Australian Ext. Terr. 
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 
684 American Samoa 
685 Western Samoa 
686 Kiribati 
687 New Caledonia 
688 Tuvalu 
689 French Polynesia 
690 Tokelau 
691 F.S. Micronesia 
692 Marshall Islands 

800 Int'l Freephone [*] 
850 DPR Korea (North) 
852 Hong Kong [*] 
853 Macau 
855 Cambodia 
856 Laos 
870 Inmarsat SNAC 
871 Inmarsat (Atl-East) 
872 Inmarsat (Pacific) 
873 Inmarsat (Indian O.) 
874 Inmarsat (Atl-West) 
880 Bangladesh 
881 Satellite services [*] 
886 Taiwan/"reserved" [*] 

960 Maldives 
961 Lebanon 
962 Jordan 
963 Syria 
964 Iraq 
965 Kuwait 
966 Saudi Arabia 
967 Yemen 
968 Oman 
970 Palestine [*] 
971 United Arab Emirates 
972 Israel 
973 Bahrain 
974 Qatar 
975 Bhutan 
976 Mongolia 
977 Nepal 
992 Tajikistan (use +7) [*] 
993 Turkmenistan 
994 Azerbaijan 
995 Rep. of Georgia 
996 Kyrgyz Republic 
997 ? Kazakhstan ? (+7) [*] 
998 Uzbekistan [*] 

Special notes:
Country code +970 has been officially announced for the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza. Implementation is expected in 1999. 

Country code +42 (Czech Republic and Slovakia) has divided into +420 for the Czech Republic and +421 for Slovakia, effective 02/28/1997. There was no permissive dialing (parallel running) for this change -- all calls must now be dialed with the new country code. 

Liechtenstein has been assigned country code +423; implementation is planned for 1999. Until the change takes effect, Liechtenstein will continue to use Switzerland's country code +41, city code 75. 

Country code 881 is used for satellite services, with the next digit indicating the specific service. +881-6 is Iridium. 

Country code 800 is Universal International Freephone Numbers (UIFN). These numbers are toll-free from any country that participates in the UIFN scheme and from which the number's owner elects to receive calls. The numbers are not the same as 1-800 numbers in North America or 0800 or 1800 or similar numbers in other countries. 

Use of country codes +670 and +671 has been discontinued, as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; includes Saipan and Tinian) and Guam have joined the North American Numbering Plan (country code 1). As of July 1, 1998, you must use +1 670 for CNMI and +1 671 for Guam. (The new North American area codes match the previous international country codes.) 

New country codes have been assigned for several European micro-states in the +37X range, and for several Asian former Soviet republics in the +99X range. No formal announcement of Kazakhstan's new country code has been made; the listing for +997 is purely speculation. Some of the new country codes have already gone into service, but others are pending. Available sources indicate that +376 Andorra and +377 Monaco have gone into effect, but +378 San Marino and +379 Vatican City are still pending, with no activation date specified. +993 Turkmenistan, +994 Azerbaijan, +995 Georgia, and +996 Kyrgyz Republic are active, but +992 Tajikistan is still pending. +998 Uzbekistan has been reported active. Again, +997 for Kazakhstan is only speculation on a possible future change. 

Country code +21 is officially a unified numbering scheme for Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Each country has reserved two or three of the +21X codes. However, only the codes shown are actually in use. 

Country code +259 is officially assigned to Zanzibar. However, Zanzibar is a part of Tanzania -- Tanzania is the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar -- and is numbered under Tanzania's country code +255. There is no reason for Zanzibar to have requested a separate country code, nor is there any reason that the ITU (then the CCITT) should have granted this improper request. I have therefore omitted this code from the table, since it has never been used and will never be used for any purpose. 

The Republic of China (Taiwan) is officially recognized by the ITU as a part of the People's Republic of China. The country code +886 is designated merely as "reserved," without reference to location. However, most calls to Taiwan originating outside of the People's Republic of China are routed using country code +886, as shown in the table above. Hong Kong was politically united with the PRC on July 1, 1997; all indications are that China has no plans to change the numbering for Hong Kong in the foreseeable future. 

Kalaallit Nunaat, also known as Greenland or Grnland, has country code +299. Although the +2 zone is primarily for Africa, ITU policy allows countries or territories in regions with no codes available (such as the +5 zone where Greenland is located) to use spare codes from other regions. 

Abbreviations: FYR Macedonia = Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; F.S. Micronesia = Federated States of Micronesia. 

Additional information about international country codes and other numbering issues is available from the World Telephone Numbering Guide (link updated 8/16/99), maintained by Dave Leibold. In particular, several countries (Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Australia, France, and others) have recently undertaken or are planning to undertake significant changes in their national numbering plans. 

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