32 Belgium
10 Wavre
11 Hasselt
12 Tongeren
13 Diest
14 Herentals, Turnhout
15 Mechelen (Malines)
16 Leuven (Louvain), Tienen
17 Mobile (2nd generation)
18 Semaphone (3rd generation)
19 Waremme (Borgworm)
2 Brussels (Bruxelles)
3 Antwerp (Antwerpen, Anvers), St Niklaas
31 old or incorrect code for Antwerp (see 3)
41 Liege (Luik), Fourons
50 Brugge (Bruges), Zeebrugge
51 Roeselare (Roulers)
52 Dendermonde (Termonde)
53 Aalst (Alost)
54 Ninove
55 Ronse-Renaix
56 Kortrijk (Courtai), Comines-Warneton
57 Ieper (Ypres)
58 Veurne (Furnes)
59 Oostende (Ostende)
60 Chimay
61 Bastogne, Libramont-Chevigny
63 Arlon (Aarlen)
64 La Louviere
65 Mons (Bergen)
67 Nivelles (Nijvel)
68 Ath (Aat)
69 Tournai (Doornik)
70 "universal" numbers
71 Charleroi
72 Semaphone Benelux (3rd generation)
73 Semaphone Benelux (3rd generation)
75 European Mobile (GSM)
77 "Kiosk" numbers - for premium/toll services
78 toll free (11xxxx), special rate (15xxxx) services
80 Stavelot
800 toll free service
81 Namur (Namen)
82 Dinant
83 Ciney
84 Jemelle, Marche-en-Famenne
85 Huy
86 Durbuy
87 Verviers
89 Genk (city code split of 11 Hasselt?)
9 Gent (Ghent, Gand) [formerly 91; changed in 1994]
900 "Kiosk" numbers - for premium/toll services
33 France
[France moved to an 8-digit local number scheme around Oct. 19-20
or 26-27, 1985. Paris area was assigned an area code of 1; the rest
of France had no area code, just the 8 digit number. Domestically,
05 + 6 digits was for toll-free ("numero vert") service.
Domestic long distance access code was 16, international access code
was 19 (followed by dial tone, then international number).]
[As of 18 October 1996, 23h00 France time, the numbering plan in effect
is a ten-digit national standard, where numbers commence with the digit
0, followed by a single digit area code, then the 8-digit number as
it existed prior to October 1996.
The 8-digit dialing within a given geographic zone will be phased
out as of December 1997 in favour of a national standard dialing
of 10-digits (0 + zone code + 8 digits), whether the call is
placed within or outside the caller's zone.
For dialing from outside France, the initial 0 of the new ten-digit
numbers is not included. International dialing will thus be
of the form +33 z xxxx xxxx after the October 1996 changes.
International access code from France changes from 19 to 00.
No dial tone follows 00 as it originally did with 19.]
[The single area digit before the remaining 8 digits of the number
will be set up as follows:
1 Ile-de-France (Metro Paris)
2 Northwest France
3 Northeast France
4 Southeast France
5 Southwest France
6 mobile numbers
8 non-geographic national services
800 toll-free numbers
Special entries in the numbering plan allow for dialing to overseas
French departments (DOM). Numbers in Mayotte, for instance, would be
dialed from France as 0269 plus the number under the revamped numbering
plan (a 6-digit standard local number is used in the French departments,
for a 10-digit total). These numbers coincide with the departments'
respective country codes and these assignments will not conflict with
the new France numbering plan:
262 Reunion
269 Mayotte
508 St Pierre & Miquelon
590 Guadeloupe
594 Guyana
596 Martinique
Calls from the DOMs to points in France or its DOMs will be changed to
allow use of this 10-digit standard. A DOM-to-France or DOM-to-DOM call
can then use the same 0 z xxxx xxxx format as used within France. Calls
within a DOM can be dialed with just the 6-digit national number or with
the 10-digit format (0 ddd xxxxxx where ddd is the DOM country code).
From other nations, existing country codes still apply for dialing
(i.e. numbers in the DOMs do not become part of the +33 country code).
Calls to French Overseas Territories (TOM) will be made with the
international calling procedures (00 + country code). TOMs are New
Caledonia (+687), French Polynesia (+689) and Wallis and Futuna (+681).
Conversion from old to new numberings is done as follows:
Paris: no change from outside France to dialing existing
+33 1 abxxxxxx numbers (where the "ab" portion can begin with one
of 30, 34, 39, 4X (40 to 49 inclusive), 51, 53, 55, 60, 64, 69).
Within France, Paris numbers will have the format 01xxxxxxxx.
Outside Paris: The new 10-digit number will be created as:
0 + area digit + existing 8-digit number
For a number of the form abxxxxxx, the area digits will be
assigned based on the first two digits, or the "ab digits"
of the non-Paris number. The conversions are listed in the
form (ab digits) -> (new area digit); X means any digit
(2X means 20 through 29 inclusive):
2X -> 3 41 -> 2 51 -> 2 62 -> 5 91 -> 4
31 -> 2 42 -> 4 53 -> 5 63 -> 5 92 -> 4
32 -> 2 43 -> 2 54 -> 2 65 -> 5 93 -> 4
33 -> 2 44 -> 3 55 -> 5 66 -> 4 94 -> 4
34 -> 5 45 -> 5 56 -> 5 67 -> 4 95 -> 4
35 -> 2 46 -> 5 57 -> 5 68 -> 4 96 -> 2
37 -> 2 47 -> 2 58 -> 5 69 -> 4 97 -> 2
38 -> 2 48 -> 2 59 -> 5 7X -> 4 98 -> 2
39 -> 2 49 -> 5 60 -> 3 8X -> 3 99 -> 2
40 -> 2 50 -> 4 61 -> 5 90 -> 4
e.g. old number +33 56 78 90 12 changes to +33 5 56 78 90 12
Domestically, the European standard 112 emergency code is expected
to commence shortly after the 18 October 1996 introduction of the
new numbering plan. Special public service numbers such as 112 commence
with the digit 1 and may be from 2 to 4 digits in length.
-- courtesy Nigel Allen (initial news of numbering change), Erik
Thomas Mueller (etm@email.teaser.com) and Patrick Raffin
(praffin@teaser.fr), confirmed in ITU OB#614]
[NOTE: The information below is the numbering prior to the
October 1996 numbering change and represents history only.]
1 Paris
[Beyond Paris metropolitan area, codes indicate the prefix or
beginning digits of phone numbers. These may now be only
approximate, given the lack of "area codes" at the time. A separate
document in the Archives regarding France's numbering has a more
detailed list of the regions and initial digits prior to the
1996 renumbering
(lcs.mit.edu:telecom-archives/country.codes/zone.3.france.33.comments)]
* [outside Paris]
20 Lille
26 Reims
35 Le Havre, Rouen
56 Bordeaux
61 Toulouse
628 Andorra (independent country)
(changed from 078 when France changed to 8-digit numbers)
7 Lyon
76 Grenoble
88 Strasbourg
91 Marseille
92 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (area northeast of 93, immed. below)
93 Nice, Cannes, "Alpes Maritimes" (Maritime Alps) area,
(independent country of) Monaco
34 Spain (including Balearic Islands)
[07 used for international access; 9 + STD code for domestic
access. Total number of area code and local number digits
should equal 8, ie. one digit area code + 7D, or two digit
area code + 6 digits.
Werenfried Spit noted that calls to different provinces require
dialing the area code, even if this is the same area code as
the calling party.
Spain's provincial capitals have the same name as their
respective provinces, except for Alava (capital: Vitoria/Gazteiz),
Vizcaia/Bizkaia (Bilbao), Guipuzkoa (San Sebasti'an/Donostia),
and Navarra (Pamplona/Iru~na). Furthermore the province of
Palma the Mallorca coincides with the Balearic Isles, the
province of Logro~no is also known as La Rioja, and the
province of Oviedo is also known as Asturias.]
0 land mobile uses (local number format 81xxxxx or 86xxxxx)
1 Madrid
11 Guadalajara, Segovia
18 Avila
22 Canary Islands: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife
23 Salamanca
24 Badajoz
25 Toledo
26 Ciudad Real
27 Caceres
28 Canary Islands: Arrecife, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Puerto Del Rosario
3 Badalona, Barcelona, Sabadell, San Feliu de Llobregat, Tarrasa
4 Bilbao, Vizcaya
41 La Rioja, Logrono
42 Cantabria, Santander
43 Guipuuzcoa, Irun, San Sebastian
44 Schinnen
45 Alava, Vitoria
47 Burgos
48 Navarra, Pamplona
5 Sevilla (Seville) (also/formerly 54?)
51 Almeria
52 Malaga, Marbella, Melilla, Torremolinos
53 Jaen, Linares
54 Sevilla (Seville) (old code?)
55 Huelva
56 Algeciras, Cadiz, Ceuta, Jerez de la Frontera, Rota
57 Cordoba
58 Granada
6 Alcira, Alicante, Sagunto, Valencia
64 Castellon de la Plana
65 Alcoy
65 (Alicante - likely a former or obsolete code)
65 Gandia
66 La Cuenca
67 Albacete
68 Aguilas, Cartagena, Lorca (Marcia), Murcia
71 Baleares (Is.), Ibiza, Mahon, Palma de Mallorca
72 Gerona
73 Lerida
74 Huesca, Teruel
75 Soria
76 Zaragoza
77 Reus, Tarragona, Tortosa
8 Asturias [7 digit numbers]
81 La Coruna (plus Acoruna?)
81 Santiago de Compostela
82 Lugo
83 Valladolid
85 Asturias [6 digit numbers], Aviles, Gijon, Oviedo
86 Pontevedra, Vigo
87 Leon
88 Orense, Palencia, Zamora