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American Samoa, a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean, has been approved for membership in the North American Numbering Plan, effective 2004-10-02. During the permissive period, from 2004-10-02 until 2005-04-02, American Samoa may be dialed as either +684 or +1 684; beginning 2005-04-02, you must use +1 684. (From North America, 011-684 will change to 1-684.) Country code +684 will be available for reassignment in 2007.

Please note that the change for American Samoa does not affect the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa, which has country code +685.

Country code +970 has been officially announced for the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza. Implementation details remain sketchy. For the foreseeable future, areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority may be dialed by simply substituting +970 for the Israeli code +972, using the same city code and local number. At some point in the future, the Palestinian Authority may undertake a renumbering of codes under +970.

Country code +42 (Czech Republic and Slovakia) has divided into +420 for the Czech Republic and +421 for Slovakia, effective 1997-02-28. There was no permissive dialing (parallel running) for this change -- all calls must now be dialed with the new country code.

Liechtenstein has now implemented country code +423, effective 1999-04-05; use of Switzerland's country code +41, city code 75, for Liechtenstein has been discontinued.

Vatican City has been assigned country code +379, but has apparently made no progress towards implementing it. Until further notice, continue to dial the Vatican City using Italy's country code +39 06 69 88.

Country code 881 is used for satellite services, with the next digit indicating the specific service. +881-6 was Iridium.

Country code 800 is Universal International Freephone Numbers (UIFN). These numbers are toll-free from any country that participates in the UIFN scheme and from which the number's owner elects to receive calls. The numbers are not the same as 1-800 numbers in North America or 0800 or 1800 or similar numbers in other countries.

Italy, and possibly other countries, formerly used country code +851 (officially unassigned) for the Dominican Republic. However, the correct code is +1 809. Since +1 809 routes only to the Dominican Republic, it is no longer necessary or appropriate to use unofficial alternate codes. All other countries or territories in the Caribbean region now have their own unique area codes within country code +1.

Country codes +670 and +671 were previously used for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; includes Saipan and Tinian) and Guam, which have now joined the North American Numbering Plan (country code 1). As of 1998-07-01, you must use +1 670 for CNMI and +1 671 for Guam. (The new North American area codes match the previous international country codes.) Country code +670 is now in use by East Timor, which has declared independence from Indonesia after two decades of occupation.

New country codes have been assigned for several European micro-states in the +37X range, and for several Asian former Soviet republics in the +99X range. No formal announcement of Kazakhstan's new country code has been made; the listing for +997 is purely speculation. (As of 2003-10-28, it appears that Kazakhstan is still using +7.) Some of the new country codes have already gone into service, but others are pending. Available sources indicate that +376 Andorra, +377 Monaco, and +378 San Marino have gone into effect, but +379 Vatican City is still pending, with no activation date specified. +992 Tajikistan, +993 Turkmenistan, +994 Azerbaijan, +995 Georgia, +996 Kyrgyz Republic and +998 Uzbekistan are all active. Again, +997 for Kazakhstan is only speculation on a possible future change.

Country code +21 is officially a unified numbering scheme for Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Each country has reserved two or three of the +21X codes. However, only the codes shown are actually in use.

Country code +259 is officially assigned to Zanzibar. However, Zanzibar is a part of Tanzania -- Tanzania is the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar -- and is numbered under Tanzania's country code +255. There is no reason for Zanzibar to have requested a separate country code, nor is there any reason that the ITU (then the CCITT) should have granted this improper request. I have therefore omitted this code from the table, since it has never been used and will never be used for any purpose.

The Republic of China (Taiwan) is officially recognized by the ITU as a part of the People's Republic of China. The country code +886 is designated merely as "reserved," without reference to location. However, most calls to Taiwan originating outside of the People's Republic of China are routed using country code +886, as shown in the table above. (The +86 6 numbering space in China's numbering plan is reserved for Taiwan.) Hong Kong was politically united with the PRC on 1997-07-01; all indications are that China has no plans to change the numbering for Hong Kong in the foreseeable future.

Kalaallit Nunaat, also known as Greenland or Grønland, has country code +299. Although the +2 zone is primarily for Africa, ITU policy allows countries or territories in regions with no codes available (such as the +5 zone where Greenland is located) to use spare codes from other regions.

Abbreviations: FYR Macedonia = Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; F.S. Micronesia = Federated States of Micronesia.

Additional information about international country codes and other numbering issues is available from the World Telephone Numbering Guide (link updated 2002-02-13), maintained by Dave Leibold. In particular, several countries (Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Australia, France, and others) have recently undertaken or are planning to undertake significant changes in their national numbering plans. Mexico has renumbered every telephone in the entire country, adding two digits to each national number.

The NumberPlan.org site also provides extensive information on country codes and some city codes, as well as some number ranges specifically for mobile telephony in various countries.

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