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Country: Samoa: Continent: Oceania: NSN length: 5, 6, 7: Format +685 XX XXX ... Minimum number length (excluding the country code): three digits Maximum number length ...
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.
The abbreviation is derived from Western Samoa, the country's former name until 1997. Currently for Samoa, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 11 districts. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is WS, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Samoa. The second part is two letters.
The ISO 3166 codes are used by the United Nations and for Internet top-level country code domains. Non-sovereign entities are in italics. On September 2, 2008, FIPS 10-4 was one of ten standards withdrawn by NIST as a Federal Information Processing Standard.
Western Samoa: 1984–1996: Now ... Used as the country code for Mixed NOCs at the Youth Olympics. [14] [15] OAR
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.
.ws is the Internet country code top-level domain for Samoa.It is administered by SamoaNIC, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Samoa.. The .ws domain is an abbreviation for "Western Samoa", which was the nation's official name in the 1970s when two-letter country codes were standardized.
Country codes are defined by the ITU-T section of the ITU in standards E.123 and E.164. Country codes constitute the international telephone numbering plan, and are dialed only when calling a telephone number in another country. They are dialed before the national telephone number.