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Internationally, Russia participates in the numbering plans of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) provided by recommendations E.164 and E.123, using the telephone country code +7, which is shared with Kazakhstan, designating two area codes for routing calls to that country. +7 ITU country code was originally assigned to the Soviet ...
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Telephone country codes, originally termed International Codes by the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (C.C.I.T.T.) in 1960, [1] but also sometimes referred to as "country dial-in codes", or historically "international subscriber dialing" (ISD) codes in the U.K., are telephone ...
Kazakhstan has been sharing the country code +7 with Russia since its independence in 1991. In 2021, ITU reserved the code +997 [3] for Kazakhstan, and the country planned to activate it in January 2023. In early 2023, however, Kazakhstan applied for a change of code to 77. [4] In late 2023, Kazakhstan decided to keep the country code 7. [5]
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.
Area code dialing is optional in most geographical area codes, except Moscow (area codes 495, 498, 499); it is mandatory for non-geographical area codes. E.123 international and Microsoft formats are used for writing local phone numbers as well; international prefix and country code 7 are replaced with trunk code 8 (or 8~CC ) when dialing a ...
Country name Country Code International Call Prefix Main article Abkhazia +995 44, +7 840, +7 940 — Telephone numbers in Abkhazia Christmas Island +61 8 9164 — Telephone numbers in Christmas Island
When dialing a telephone number, the area code may have to be preceded by a trunk prefix or national access code for domestic calls, and for international calls by the international access code and country code. Area codes are often quoted by including the national access code. For example, a number in London may be listed as 020 7946 0321.
2023: returned to the pool of area codes available for future area code relief; 457: Louisiana (Shreveport–Bossier City, Monroe, Alexandria, Fisher, Tallulah, and most of northern Louisiana) September 25, 2025 [3] to be overlaid on 318; previously a fictitious area code assigned to identify Naked DSL/Dry Loop and dedicated data lines in ...