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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.
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 ...
Since 1998, the leading 0 of landline numbers has to be included also when calling from abroad, in contrast with the practice in many other countries. The country code for calling Italy from abroad is 39. [3] For calling foreign destinations from Italy, the international call prefix is 00, as is standard in most European countries.
Mobile phones use geographic area codes (two digits): after that, all numbers assigned to mobile service have nine digits, starting with 6, 7, 8 or 9 (example: 55 15 99999–9999). 90 is not possible, because collect calls start with this number.
With an area of 2,586 square kilometers (998 sq mi), Luxembourg is Europe's seventh-smallest country. [15] In 2024, it had a population of 672,050, which makes it one of the least-populated countries in Europe, [16] albeit with the highest population growth rate; [17] foreigners account for nearly half the population. [18]
When dialling within the country, all area codes are preceded by the national trunk prefix 0, which has been included in all listings in this article. 0 was traditionally the number dialled for the operator for long-distance calls before subscriber trunk dialling (STD) was introduced, and so was retained as a prefix for direct-dialled calls.
Moldova is the among least visited countries in Europe, and tourism consequently plays a relatively minor role in the country's overall economy. [138] Despite the impact of Russia's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine , Moldova saw more foreign visitors in the first quarter of 2022 than pre- pandemic , going from 31,000 non-resident tourists in ...
The United Nations uses a combination of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes, along with codes that pre-date the creation of ISO 3166, for international vehicle registration codes, which are codes used to identify the issuing country of a vehicle registration plate; some of these codes are currently indeterminately reserved in ISO 3166-1.