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International Country Calling Codes and Dialing Prefixes

A
			National Code ***
	Afghanistan	93		00
	Albania	355		00
	Algeria	213		00
	American Samoa	1	684	011
	Andorra	376		00
	Angola	244		00
	Anguilla	1	264 (ANG)	011
	Antigua and Barbuda	1	268 (ANT)	011
	Argentina	54		00
	Armenia	374		00
	Aruba	297		00
	Australia	61		0011
	Austria	43		00
	Azerbaijan	994		810
B
	Bahamas	1	242 (BAH)	011
	Bahrain	973		00
	Bangladesh	880		00
	Barbados	1	246	011
	Belarus	375		810
	Belgium	32		00
	Belize	501		00
	Benin	229		00
	Bermuda	1	441	011
	Bhutan	975		00
	Bolivia	591		0010
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	387		00
	Botswana	267		00
	Brazil	55		0014
	Brunei Darussalam	673		00
	Bulgaria	359		00
	Burkina Faso	226		00
	Burundi	257		00
C
	Cambodia	855		00
	Cameroon	237		00
	Canada	1		011
	Cape Verde	238		00
	Cayman Islands	1	345	011
	Central African Republic	236		00
	Chad	235		15
	Chile	56		00
	China	86		00
	Christmas Island	61	8	0011
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	61	8	0011
	Colombia	57		005
	Comoros	269		00
	Congo (Brazzaville)	242		00
	Congo (Kinshasa)	243		00
	Cook Islands	682		00
	Costa Rica	506		00
	Côte D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	225		00
	Croatia (Hrvatska)	385		00
	Cuba	53		119
	Cyprus	357		00
	Czech Republic	420		00
D
	Denmark	45		00
	Djibouti	253		00
	Dominica	1	767 (ROS)	011
	Dominican Republic	1	809, 829, 849	011

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Tips for International Calls

 

Best Tips for International Calls

Overseas calls can get very fast, very expensive when you talk with your loved ones for a while using the service of your good old phone company.

There are some ways to get it cheaper:


Internet telephony
The cheapest way to make an international call is by Internet telephony, a method to make voice calls over the Internet (VoIP) with a software application like "Skype", "FaceTime" or "WhatsApp" installed on a computer or mobile phone, it makes calls to other users within the service free of charge worldwide.

Even if the called party is not in the service it might be cheaper to call its landline (more affordable) or even its mobile (maybe not so cheap) by VoIP. If you want to call a mobile phone or landline through Skype, it requires Skype Credit or a subscription.

Advantage: cheap or even free of charge, two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously are possible, that means with cameras (webcams) connected to the computer system you can also see your dialog partner(s) and vice versa. Disadvantage: the line might be of poor quality and might be disconnected anytime, though you can try to reconnect any time and even get lucky and get a connection with better quality.


International prepaid calling cards
Some telecom companies offer international prepaid calling cards for various foreign countries; the card is used to make phone calls at a rate other than the one charged by your local phone company (it make always sense to compare the fees).


Dial around
Dial around also known in some countries as call-by-call is a method to bypass your primary phone carrier and use the service of an independent phone company with lower fees for long distance and international calls.

It means when you make a call you dial first a given number by the cheaper service followed by the usual numbers. It looks like 0123-1-xxx-xxxxxxx, where 0123 stands for the dial-up the service of the independent phone company, - 1- stands for the long distance or international calling code and the rest "xxx-xxx" represents the area code and the subscriber number.
 

International Calls made easy

* The Dialing Country Code is the prefix number you have to dial to connect your call to the specific country you want to call.


** The International Call Prefix (also called an international access code or an International Direct Dialing code - IDD) is a telephone dialing code used to dial out of a country when making an international call.
In given phone numbers the IDD is often abbreviated by just "+" like in +0123 456 789, to signify that the caller should use the appropriate prefix for the country from where he is calling.

*** National Code (like an Area Code) is the local number within the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) related to island nations and US dependencies in the Caribbean and the South Pacific.

International Calls made easy.

In principle, it's straightforward like you call from your landline or mobile at home. The only difference is, you have to dial some prefix numbers and leave out the leading zero (if any) in the area code or the mobile phone number.

It looks like:
Access code (IDD) + country calling code + area code (if any) + subscriber's phone number

example US/Canada: 011 + country code + area code + subscriber's phone number
example Europe: 00 + country code + area code + subscriber's phone number


Let's say you want to telephone from country A (the country where you are) to country B (the other country where you want to call to).

I. the first number you have to dial will be the International Dialing Prefix (IDD) of country A to indicate it is an international call (out of the country), in the majority of cases this will be "00", in Canada and the US "011", however, please check the IDD list above.

II. then you dial the Dialing Country Code alias Country Calling Code, the number which is designated to country B (see list above)

III a (for landlines)
then you dial the phone number of the called party, (the person or company you want to call), this number is made up of: the area code (NOW without the leading zero!) for a city or region within the foreign country and the unique number (subscribers number) of the called party, the number of your uncle Tom.
If you don't know the area (city) code, try a search engine like Google by searching for "area (or dialing) code for city/town name," use this number without! the leading zero.

III b (for cell phones)
then you dial the phone number of the mobile phone you want to call (without the leading zero).