---
id: "qa_phone"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "common", "telecom"]
country: ["QA"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 73
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/qa_phone"
---

# Qatar phone number (E.164) (`qa_phone`)

> **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.

Phone number of Qatar in international E.164 form: a plus sign, the country calling code +974 and the national number, with no spaces. The regexp follows the national number pattern of Google libphonenumber. National formats with a trunk prefix and numbers written with spaces or hyphens are not covered.

- Pattern of: `phone`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Common (common), Telecommunications (telecom)
- Countries: Qatar (QA)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\+974(?:800\d{4}|(?:2|800)\d{6}|(?:0080|[3-7])\d{7})$
```

## Examples

- `+97444123456` — Example number from Google libphonenumber (fixed line)
- `+97433123456` — Example number from Google libphonenumber (mobile)

## Supported by tools

- `libphonenumber`

## Sources

- other: <https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/blob/master/resources/PhoneNumberMetadata.xml>

## Quality

Score 73/100. Missing: negative example, authoritative source link, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

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