Telephone numbers in Africa explained

The following are country calling codes in Africa.

States and territories with country calling codes

Country name	Country Code	International Call Prefix	Main article
Central Africa
	+244	00	Telephone numbers in Angola
	+237	00	Telephone numbers in Cameroon
	+236	00	Telephone numbers in the Central African Republic
	+235	00	Telephone numbers in Chad
	+243	00	Telephone numbers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	+242	00	Telephone numbers in the Republic of the Congo
	+240	00	Telephone numbers in Equatorial Guinea
	+241	00	Telephone numbers in Gabon
	+239	00	Telephone numbers in São Tomé and Príncipe
East Africa
	+257	00	Telephone numbers in Burundi
	+269	00	Telephone numbers in the Comoros
	+254	000	Telephone numbers in Kenya
	+261	00	Telephone numbers in Madagascar
	+265	00	Telephone numbers in Malawi
	+230	00	Telephone numbers in Mauritius
(France)	+262	00	Telephone numbers in Mayotte
	+258	00	Telephone numbers in Mozambique
(France)	+262	00	Telephone numbers in Réunion
	+250	00	Telephone numbers in Rwanda
	+248	00	Telephone numbers in Seychelles
	+255	000	Telephone numbers in Tanzania
	+256	000	Telephone numbers in Uganda
Horn of Africa
	+253	00	Telephone numbers in Djibouti
	+291	011 & 00	Telephone numbers in Eritrea
	+251	00	Telephone numbers in Ethiopia
	+252	00	Telephone numbers in Somalia
North Africa
	+213	00	Telephone numbers in Algeria
	+20	00	Telephone numbers in Egypt
	+218	00	Telephone numbers in Libya
	+212	00	Telephone numbers in Morocco
	+211	00	Telephone numbers in South Sudan
	+249	00	Telephone numbers in Sudan
	+216	00	Telephone numbers in Tunisia
Southern Africa
	+267	00	Telephone numbers in Botswana
	+266	00	Telephone numbers in Lesotho
	+264	00	Telephone numbers in Namibia
	+27	00	Telephone numbers in South Africa
	+268	00	Telephone numbers in Swaziland
	+260	00	Telephone numbers in Zambia
	+263	00	Telephone numbers in Zimbabwe
West Africa
(United Kingdom)	+247	00	Telephone numbers in Ascension Island
	+229	00	Telephone numbers in Benin
	+226	00	Telephone numbers in Burkina Faso
	+238	00	Telephone numbers in Cape Verde
	+225	00	Telephone numbers in Côte d'Ivoire
	+220	00	Telephone numbers in the Gambia
	+233	00	Telephone numbers in Ghana
	+224	00	Telephone numbers in Guinea
	+245	00	Telephone numbers in Guinea-Bissau
	+231	00	Telephone numbers in Liberia
	+223	00	Telephone numbers in Mali
	+222	00	Telephone numbers in Mauritania
	+227	00	Telephone numbers in Niger
	+234	009	Telephone numbers in Nigeria
(United Kingdom)	+290	00	Telephone numbers in Saint Helena
	+221	00	Telephone numbers in Senegal
	+232	00	Telephone numbers in Sierra Leone
	+228	00	Telephone numbers in Togo
(United Kingdom)	+290	00	Telephone numbers in Tristan da Cunha

States and territories without a country calling code

Country name	Country Code	International Call Prefix	Main article
(Spain)	+34	00	Telephone numbers in the Canary Islands
(Spain)	+34	00	Telephone numbers in Ceuta
(Portugal)	+351	00	Telephone numbers in Madeira
(Spain)	+34	00	Telephone numbers in Melilla
Plazas de soberanía (Spain)	+34	00	Telephone numbers in Plazas de soberanía
	+212	00	Telephone numbers in Western Sahara
	+252	00	Telephone numbers in Somaliland
	+252	00	Telephone numbers in Puntland

See also

• Telephone numbering plan
• List of country calling codes
• List of international call prefixes

References

• Web site: List of ITU-T Recommendation E.164 assigned country codes . International Telecommunication Union . PDF . 2011-11-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120131025009/http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/opb/sp/T-SP-E.164D-11-2011-PDF-E.pdf . 2012-01-31 . live .