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Country Codes

CCITT was the first organization, which created the formal list of telephone country codes, it was the serious part of CCITT Blue Book, printed in 1964 first time. The CCITT Blue Book also includes international recommendations in phone and other communicatins area. Now it become a famous ITU-T recommendation E.164. The oldest system of country phone codes appeared in Europe - CCITT Red Book, it was codificated in early 1960. Some codes was accepted in a CCITT Blue Book too and remain in use up to nowdays. For example, 33 is a France code and 44 is the United Kingdom one.

 Primarily several countries had got two digit codes because of its big size and amount of users, for example, France or the United Kingdom. There for small countries had got three digit codes, like Iceland and Sweden. In 1980s all codes became three digit, and the size of country doesn’t matter anything now. And now ) calling codes is listed in a ITU-T recommendation E.164. ITU-T is a successor of CCITT and defined by ITU (International Telecommunication Union). This organization was created in 1865 like an International Telegraph Union and make the international telecommunication standarts like ITU-T for phone communication, ITU-R for radio and ITU-D for other networks.

Below is a list of European countries (Zone 3 & 4) calling codes defined by ITU-T recommendation E.164.

Country Code
Albania 355
Andorra 376
Armenia 374
Austria 43
Belarus 375
Belgium 32
Bosnia and Herzegovina 387
Bulgaria 359
Croatia 385
Cyprus 357
Czech Republic 420
Denmark 45
Estonia 372
Finland 358
France 33
Germany 49
Gibraltar 350
Greece 30
Hungary 36
Iceland 354
Italy and Vatican City 39
Kosovo, which is under UN administration, uses 381 (Serbia) for landlines but 377 (Monaco) for mobile phones. 381
or
377
Latvia 371
Liechtenstein 423
Lithuania 370
Luxembourg 352
Malta 356
Moldova 373
Monaco, and currently also used by mobile phone networks in Kosovo. 377
Montenegro 382
Norway 47
Poland 48
Portugal 351
Republic of Ireland 353
Republic of Macedonia 389
Romania 40
San Marino 378
Serbia 381
Slovakia 421
Slovenia 386
Spain 34
Sweden 46
Switzerland 41
The Netherlands 31
Ukraine 380
United Kingdom 44
Vatican City but uses 39 with Italy. 379

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