Telephone area code
ID phone_area_code
DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Area code (trunk prefix and dialling code) of a telephone number written without the subscriber number, as in 0221 for Cologne or 06 for Rome in national formats; North American area codes have three digits without a leading zero (212). Directories often keep it in a column of its own.
- Categories
- Telecommunications
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 90/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...)
- Metacrafter rules
- 1 rule (1 by field name, 0 by value)
phoneareacodebyfieldfield, common/telecom.yaml
- Supported by tools
- metacrafter
Regular expression
^(?:0[1-9]\d{0,4}|[2-9]\d{2})$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 0221 | Cologne |
| 0211 | Düsseldorf |
| 02151 | Krefeld |
| 212 | Manhattan (NANP) |
| 0221 123456 invalid | With the subscriber number: phone |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| German | Telefonvorwahl | |
| Russian | Телефонный код |
Sources
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/phone_area_code - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/telecom/phone_area_code.yamlon GitHub