Telephone numbers in the Americas

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The prefixes in the Americas start with one of 1,2,5

All countries in the Americas use telephone country 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 otherwise is mostly used by countries in Africa.

AmericaPrefix International access code Trunk prefixComment
Anguilla Caribbean 1-264 0111
Antigua and Barbuda Caribbean 1-268 0111
Argentina South 54 000
Aruba Caribbean 297 00
Bahamas Caribbean 1-242 0111
Barbados Caribbean 1-246 0111
Belize Central 501
Bermuda North 1-441 0111
Bolivia South 591 00
Brazil South 55 00 xx0
British Virgin Islands Caribbean 1-284 0111
Canada North10111Several NANP codes; see Telephone numbers in Canada.
Caribbean Netherlands Caribbean 599-3, 4, or 7 00
Cayman Islands Caribbean 1-345 0111
Chile South 56 1xx01xx
Colombia South 57 009, 007, 005, 00456, 0044409, 07, 05, 0456, 0444
Costa Rica Central 506 00
Cuba Caribbean 53 000
Curaçao Caribbean 599-9 00
Dominica Caribbean 1-767 0111
Dominican Republic Caribbean 1-809, 829, 849 0111
Ecuador South 593 000
El Salvador Central 503
Falkland Islands South 500 00
French Guiana South 594 00
Greenland North 299 00
Grenada Caribbean 1-473 0111
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 0111
Martinique Caribbean 596 00
Mexico North 52 0001
Montserrat Caribbean 1-664 0111
Nicaragua Central 505 00
Panama Central 507 00
Paraguay South 595 000
Peru South 51 000
Puerto Rico Caribbean 1-787, 939 0111
Saint Barthélemy Caribbean 590 00
Saint Kitts and Nevis Caribbean 1-869 0111
Saint Lucia Caribbean 1-758 0111
Collectivity of Saint Martin Caribbean 590 00
Saint Pierre and Miquelon North 508 000
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Caribbean 1-784 0111
Sint Maarten Caribbean 1-721 0111
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South 500 00
Suriname South 597 000
Trinidad and Tobago Caribbean 1-868 0111
Turks and Caicos Islands Caribbean 1-649 0111
United States North10111Several NANP areas; see Telephone numbers in the United States.
United States Virgin Islands Caribbean 1-340 0111
Uruguay South 598 00No National Call Prefix needed since 29 August 2010 according to the new numbering plan.
All geographical numbers have 8 digits.
Venezuela South 58 000

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