---
id: "country_calling_code"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["telecom", "geo"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/country_calling_code"
---

# Country calling code (international telephone code) (`country_calling_code`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

One- to three-digit code of ITU-T Recommendation E.164 that is dialled after the international prefix to reach a country or a group of countries, usually written with a plus sign. Some codes serve several countries (+1 for the North American Numbering Plan, +7 for Russia and Kazakhstan), and some are for global services such as satellite networks.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Telecommunications (telecom), Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\+?[1-9]\d{0,2}$
```

## Examples

- `+7` — Russia and Kazakhstan
- `+44` — United Kingdom
- `+358` — Finland
- `+0` (invalid example) — No calling code starts with 0
- `+1234` (invalid example) — Four digits, longer than any calling code

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P474`

## Translations

- ru: Телефонный код страны: Код из одной–трёх цифр по рекомендации МСЭ-Т E.164, который набирается после международного префикса для вызова страны или группы стран; обычно записывается со знаком плюс. Некоторые коды общие для нескольких стран (+1 — Североамериканский план нумерации, +7 — Россия и Казахстан).

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P474>
- doc: <https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.164>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/country_calling_code.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/telecom/country_calling_code.yaml>