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Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Telephone country codes, but also sometimes referred to as "country dial-in codes", or historically "international subscriber dialing" (ISD) codes in the U.K., are telephone number dialing prefixes for reaching subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
Calling codes in Europe. Telephone numbers in Europe are managed by the national telecommunications authorities of each country. Most country codes start with 3 and 4, but some countries that by the Copenhagen criteria are considered part of Europe have country codes starting on numbers most common outside of Europe (e.g. Faroe Islands of Denmark have a code starting on number 2, which is most ...
Area codes in Germany (German: Vorwahl) have two to five digits. In addition, the prefix digit 0 must be dialed when calling from within Germany, and must be omitted when calling from abroad. When calling via fixed networks within the same area, the area code is not required.
Most words of Arabic origin came into French via another Romance language. Many of the words that entered Italian came via Sicilian, as Sicily was under Muslim rule for more than two centuries. A few words, most of them slang terms, came via the North African Arabic dialects of former French colonies. Medieval Latin also contributed some words.
The French telephone numbering plan is used in Metropolitan France, French overseas departments and some overseas collectivities. Since 1996, Metropolitan France uses a ten-digit closed numbering plan, where the first two digits denote a geographic area, mobile or non-geographic number. 01 Île-de-France; 02 Northwest France; 03 Northeast France
A telephone number in Belgium is a sequence of nine or ten digits dialed on a telephone to make a call on the Belgian telephone network. Belgium is under a full number dialing plan, meaning that the full national number must be dialed for all calls, while it retains the trunk code, '0', for all national dialling.
Getty Images You might think your high school French will be of use in understanding St. Louis slang, but don't count on it. The city has been through a lot since French fur trader Madame Chouteau ...
Other departments, collectivities, and overseas territories: Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana. Note 1 : The departmental code is defined by the third and fourth "AB" digits in the dialing encoding pattern E Z AB PQ MCDU. These areas don't necessarily correspond to the departmental limits; each zone can contain multiple departments.