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Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. 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.
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted. See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes.
The ISO 3166-1 code for the United Kingdom is GB (for Great Britain). UK is an exceptionally reserved ISO 3166-1 code. However, the creation of the .uk TLD predates the ISO 3166-1 list of ccTLDs and is the primary TLD for the United Kingdom. [69] Nominet UK: Yes: Yes: Yes 24 July 1985.us United States of America: United States
Calls to Saint Pierre and Miquelon require only '0', country code and the subscriber's six-digit number, e.g.: From France: 0 508 xx xx xx; Outside France: +508 xx xx xx; Calls to and from the territoires d'outre mer, however, require full international dialing, hence the international access code and country code must be used:
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 ...
Code taken from Great Britain (from official name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) [16] Previous ISO country name: United Kingdom.uk is the primary ccTLD of the United Kingdom instead of .gb [17] (see code UK, which is exceptionally reserved) GD: Grenada: 1974.gd: GE: Georgia: 1992.ge: GE previously represented Gilbert and ...
It defines three sets of country codes: [1] ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are used most prominently for the Internet's country code top-level domains (with a few exceptions). ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the alpha-2 ...
This is a list of international dialing prefixes used in various countries for direct dialing of international telephone calls.These prefixes are typically required only when dialling from a landline, while in GSM-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 ...