Telephone numbers in the Americas explained

All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with the exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada and the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa.

	America	Prefix	International access code	Trunk prefix	Comment
Anguilla	Caribbean	1-264	011	1
Antigua and Barbuda	Caribbean	1-268	011	1
Argentina	South	54	00	0
Aruba	Caribbean	297	00
Bahamas	Caribbean	1-242	011	1
Barbados	Caribbean	1-246	011	1
Belize	Central	501
Bermuda	North	1-441	011	1
Bolivia	South	591	00
Brazil	South	55	00 xx
British Virgin Islands	Caribbean	1-284	011	1
Canada	North	1	011	1	Several NANP codes; see Telephone numbers in Canada.
Caribbean Netherlands	Caribbean	599-3, 4, or 7	00
Cayman Islands	Caribbean	1-345	011	1
Chile	South	56	00
Colombia	South	57	00	0	Trunk followed by 1 or 3 digit carrier code
Costa Rica	Central	506	00
Cuba	Caribbean	53	00
Curaçao	Caribbean	599-9	00
Dominica	Caribbean	1-767	011	1
Dominican Republic	Caribbean	1-809, 829, 849	011	1
Ecuador	South	593	00
El Salvador	Central	503
Falkland Islands	South	500	00
French Guiana	South	594	00
Greenland	North	299	00
Grenada	Caribbean	1-473	011	1
Guadeloupe	Caribbean	590	00
Guatemala	Central	502	00
Guyana	South	592	00
Haiti	Caribbean	509	00
Honduras	Central	504	00
Jamaica	Caribbean	1-658, 876	011	1
Martinique	Caribbean	596	00
Mexico	North	52	00	01
Montserrat	Caribbean	1-664	011	1
Nicaragua	Central	505	00
Panama	Central	507	00
Paraguay	South	595	00	0
Peru	South	51	00	0
Puerto Rico	Caribbean	1-787, 939	011	1
Saint Barthélemy	Caribbean	590	00
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Caribbean	1-869	011	1
Saint Lucia	Caribbean	1-758	011	1
Collectivity of Saint Martin	Caribbean	590	00
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	North	508	00
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Caribbean	1-784	011	1
Sint Maarten	Caribbean	1-721	011	1
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	South	500	00
Suriname	South	597	00
Trinidad and Tobago	Caribbean	1-868	011	1
Turks and Caicos Islands	Caribbean	1-649	011	1
United States	North	1	011	1	Several NANP areas; see Telephone numbers in the United States.
United States Virgin Islands	Caribbean	1-340	011	1
Uruguay	South	598	00		No National Call Prefix needed since 29 August 2010 according to the new numbering plan. All geographical numbers have 8 digits.
Venezuela	South	58	00	0

See also

• Telephone numbering plan
• National conventions for writing telephone numbers
• List of country calling codes
• List of international call prefixes
• List of North American Numbering Plan area codes
• Area codes in the Caribbean