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In telecommunications, a country code, or international subscriber dialing (ISD) code, is a telephone number prefix used in international direct dialing (IDD) and for destination routing of telephone calls to a country other than the caller's.
Telephone numbers in Papua New Guinea consist of mostly seven and some eight digit numbers (fixed), or eight digit numbers (mobile). The international prefix for Papua New Guinea was changed from ‘05’ to ’00’ in 2010.
List of area codes Old format New format [1] Place/service +251 1 xxxxxx +251 11 1xxxxxx: Addis Ababa North +251 1 xxxxxx +251 11 2xxxxxx: Addis Ababa West
The full identifier starts with an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (2 letters) country code (except for Greece, which uses the ISO 639-1 language code EL for the Greek language, instead of its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code GR, and Northern Ireland, which uses the code XI when trading with the EU) and then has between 2 and 13 characters.
01 : Beirut and its Metropolitan area 02 : No longer in use (was previously used to call Syria) 030 : Mobile operators - MIC2 (touch) 031 : Mobile operators - MIC1 (alfa)
Prior to 1990, there was no direct international access. Numbers had 5 digits except for Bucharest, where numbers were 6 digits long. Area code started with 9 and were 2 digits long for Bucharest (90-xxx-xxx) and 3 digits long (9pp-xx-xxx) for the rest of the country.
Zimbabwe was allocated its own country code by the International Telecommunication Union, +263, in the late 1960s, when it was known as Rhodesia. [2]To call a Zimbabwean number from another country: dial: the international access code (i.e. 00 for most European countries, and 011 from North America), followed by the country code (263), followed by the area code, and then the required ...
Before 2010, area codes and subscriber telephone numbers had no fixed size, meaning that some subscriber numbers may be as short as two digits. As a result, dialing sequences are generally of a variable length, except for some non-geographic area codes for which subscriber numbers use a fixed-length format.