---
id: "mobile_country_code"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["telecom", "geo"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/mobile_country_code"
---

# Mobile country code (MCC) (`mobile_country_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.

Three-digit code of ITU-T Recommendation E.212 that identifies the country of a mobile network; with the mobile network code (mobile_network_code) it identifies the network (plmn_id) and forms the start of an IMSI. The first digit gives the region (2 Europe, 3 North America and the Caribbean, 4 Asia and the Middle East, 5 Oceania, 6 Africa, 7 South and Central America, 9 worldwide services); 001 is for test networks. A country can have several codes.

- 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`):

```
^[02-79]\d{2}$
```

## Examples

- `310` — United States
- `460` — China
- `001` — Test networks
- `31` (invalid example) — Two digits, one too few

## Translations

- ru: Мобильный код страны (MCC): Трёхзначный код по рекомендации МСЭ-Т E.212, обозначающий страну мобильной сети. Вместе с кодом сети (MNC) идентифицирует сеть и образует начало IMSI. Первая цифра обозначает регион; у страны может быть несколько кодов.

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_country_code>
- doc: <https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.212>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

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