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The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for World Zone 1, which comprises twenty-five distinct regions in twenty countries primarily in North America, including the Caribbean. Some North American countries, most notably Mexico, do not participate in the NANP.
A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints. Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, reachable by a system of destination code routing. Telephone numbering plans are defined in each of administrative regions of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and they are also present in private telephone networks. For public number systems, geographic location plays a role in the sequence of numbers assigned to each telephone subscriber.
Telephone numbers in China are organized according to the Chinese Telephone Code Plan. The numerical formats of landlines and mobile phones are different: landlines have area-codes, whereas mobile phones do not. In major cities, landline-numbers consist of a two-digit area code followed by an eight-digit inner-number. In other places, landline-numbers consist of a three-digit area code followed by a seven- or eight-digit inner-number. The numbers of mobile phones consist of eleven digits.
Telephone numbers in Hong Kong are mostly eight-digit. Fixed land line numbers start with 2 or 3, mobile (cellular) phone numbers with 5, 6, 7 or 9, pager numbers with 7 and forwarding service with 8. Since the end of 1989, there have been no area codes within Hong Kong.
Telephone numbers in Macau are eight-digit numbers. Fixed land line numbers starts with 2, and Mobile (cellular) phone numbers starts with 6. Calls from Macau to mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Portugal are treated as international calls.
Telephone numbers in Europe are managed by the national telecommunications authorities of each country. The country calling codes start primarily with 3 and 4, however, some countries that by the Copenhagen criteria are considered part of Europe have country codes from the Asia range, starting with 9.
Telephone numbers in United Arab Emirates [UAE] follow a closed telephone numbering plan.
is assigned an international dialling code of +971 by ITU-T. Telephone numbers are fixed at seven digits, with area codes fixed at two or three digits.
Until September 1999, East Timor formed part of the Indonesian numbering plan, using the country code +62, followed by area codes for the two largest cities, Dili (390) and Baucau (399). Following the violence in the wake of Indonesia's departure from the territory, most of the telecommunications infrastructure was destroyed, and Telkom Indonesia withdrew its services from East Timor.
The following are telephone codes in Cape Verde.
The national conventions for writing telephone numbers vary by country. While international standards exist in the form of the International Telecommunication Union sector ITU-T issued recommendation E.123, national telephone numbering plans define the format and length of telephone numbers assigned to telephones.
Namibia's telephone numbering plan was originally devised when the country, then known as South West Africa, was under South African administration, and integrated into the South African telephone numbering plan.
The Latvian telephone numbering plan is a telephone number assigning system used in Latvia. All the numbers consist of 8 digits with exceptions for special services. The assigning process is controlled by the Electronic Communications Office and regulated by the Public Utilities Commission.
All telephone numbers in Panama are seven or eight digits long and there are no area codes. However, the first digit(s) will tell you something about where the phone is or else if it is a mobile phone.
The "Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications/TIC de Côte d’Ivoire" (ARTCI) hereby announced the modification of the national numbering plan of Côte d’Ivoire, from eight (8) to ten (10) digits, effective 31 January 2021 in Côte d’Ivoire. The change to ten (10) figures is being made in order to cope with the saturation of mobile service number resources on the one hand and ensure the availability of numbers on the other, thereby meeting the ever increasing demands of mobile telephone operators and future services, such as the Internet of Things. Under the new ten-digit numbering plan, numbers will be structured as follows: XZABPQMCDU. The theoretical maximum capacity of the ten-digit numbering plan is ten (10) billion numbers for all telecommunication services. The minimum number length is 3 digits and the maximum number length is 10 digits.
The following are the telephone codes in Niger.
Eswatini, then known as Swaziland, was allocated the country code +268 by the International Telecommunication Union, in the late 1960s. To call a telephone number in Eswatini, the following format is used:
Country Code: +247
International Call Prefix: 00
The Belize telephone numbering plan is the system used for assigning telephone numbers in Belize.
Country Code: +503
International Call Prefix: 00
Country Code: +505
International Call Prefix: 00
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