Phone numbers by country

Every numbering region, and which table covers it

245 regions carry a page; 26 of them are covered by a regulator’s block table synced onto this server, which is what lets a lookup name the block holder and, where the table is complete, call an unallocated geographic number unassigned. Everywhere else the answer comes from the numbering metadata alone: format, line type and region, with no block holder. Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man dial +44 and their numbers sit in the UK plan, so a lookup there reads Ofcom’s table. The allocated share is the measured share of a table’s blocks that are allocated, a fact about the table and not about traffic.

The trunk prefix is dialled before a number inside the region and dropped after the calling code; the international prefix is dialled to leave it. “Several” means the numbering metadata allows more than one international prefix and prefers none; the region’s page lists them. A tilde means wait for a second dial tone: 8~10 is 8, the tone, then 10.

Common questions about these pages

Where do these facts come from?

Two places. The calling code and the example numbers per line type come from the numbering metadata every phone lookup runs on, which covers every region a country calling code is assigned to. The table column names the regulator whose block allocation data this server syncs for that country — the North American and Canadian central office code reports, Ofcom, ARCEP, ACMA, ACM, the New Zealand and Mexican registers, and the Polish (UKE) and Italian (MIMIT) tables — and the allocated share is what the weekly coverage measurement found in that table.

Does a table say who serves a number today?

No. A regulator table records the original allocation of a block to a holder, and a lookup answers that holder as the carrier with carrier_source saying so. Numbers are ported between carriers every day, so the original holder is a fact about the block, never a claim about who serves one number now. The live carrier-network check (hlr: true) is not enabled on the service: hlr_checked answers false and nothing extra is charged.

What does “partial” mean beside a table?

That the regulator publishes only part of its plan in machine-readable form, so a geographic number missing from the table is not called unassigned there. Only a complete table lets a lookup say block_status unassigned for a number outside it; absence from a partial table says nothing. The shares shown are shares of the regulator’s own table, not of real traffic.

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