How to Fax Internationally – Calling & Dialling Codes

Last Update: August 9th, 2021

To fax internationally, you may need different instructions depending on where you’re faxing to and from. You will also need to be able to send a fax (with equipment such as a fax machine, computer-based fax, or an online fax service.

All international faxing requires a code to dial internationally, a country code, and then the fax number you are dialing to (in that order).

To fax internationally, you’ll need to enter the fax number as follows:

dial out code (for example to dial out of your switchboard) + international call prefix + country code + fax number

If you are dialing from a home or small office without a switchboard, then there is no need to enter a dial out code.

Whenever faxing internationally, it helps to double check the number, as some already include the prefix or country codes.

International Call Prefixes

Depending on where you are faxing from, there can be a difference of international dialing codes.

In the United States and Canada and other countries in the North American Numbering Plan, the code to dial internationally is “011”, while in European countries such as Germany and France, the code to dial internationally is “00”.

International Carrier Selection Codes

Some countries (Hong Kong, Israel, Finland, and a few others) have “international carrier selection codes.” In these markets, to enhance competition, there is the ability for the user to fax internationally with a different long distance provider then their current carrier. In these cases, the dialing sequence is international prefix + carrier selection code.

Full list of International Call Prefixes:

0

Samoa

00

All countries not listed in other numbers
All European Union Countries
Switzerland
Norway
India
Egypt
Hungary

000

Tanzania
Uganda

00x (Where x is the international carrier selection code)

Kenya (0, 5, 6, 7)
Colombia (5, 7, 9)
Cambodia (1, 7)
Indonesia (1, 7, 8, 9)
Singapore (1, 8)
South Korea (1, 2, 3xx, 5, 6, 7xx, 8)
Hong Kong (1, 60, 7, 8, 9)
Taiwan (2, 5, 6, 7, 9)
Thailand (1, 9, 7, 8, 5, 500, 4)

001

Guyana
Mongolia

0011

Australia

009

Nigeria

010

Japan

01x (where x is the international carrier selection code)

Israel (2, 3, 4, 8)

011 – Any Country in the North American Numbering Plan

American Samoa
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Canada
Cayman Islands
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Guam
Haïti
Jamaica
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Montserrat
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sint Maarten
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States of America
United States Virgin Islands

10xx (where xx is the international carrier selection code)

Georgia (07, 10, 11, 16, 18, 54, 60, 69)

1xx0 (where xx is the international carrier selection code)

Chile

119

Cuba

1666

Hong Kong – City Telecom

8-10

Belarus
Kazakhstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan

8-xx (where xx is the international carrier selection code)

Russia (10, 26, 27, 28, 56, 58, 59)

99

Finland

Country Codes

After the international dialing prefix is dialed, then the country code is entered into the fax transmission.

A country code is simply the code of the country that you are dialing to.

Zone 1 – North American Numbering Plan Area

Countries within NANP (North American Numbering Plan) administered areas are assigned area codes as if they were all within one country. The codes below in format +1 XXX represent area code XXX within the +1 NANP zone – not a separate country code.

The North American Numbering Plan Area includes:

+1 Canada
+1 United States of America, including U.S. territories:
+1 Many, but not all, Caribbean nations:

Zone 2 – Mostly Africa

(but also, for example Aruba, Faroe Islands and Greenland)

+20 – Egypt
+210 – unassigned
+211 – South Sudan
+212 – Morocco
- +212 5288 / 5289 – Western Sahara
+213 – Algeria
+214 – unassigned
+215 – unassigned
+216 – Tunisia
+217 – unassigned
+218 – Libya
+219 – unassigned
+220 – Gambia
+221 – Senegal
+222 – Mauritania
+223 – Mali
+224 – Guinea
+225 – Côte d’Ivoire
+226 – Burkina Faso
+227 – Niger
+228 – Togo
+229 – Benin
+230 – Mauritius
+231 – Liberia
+232 – Sierra Leone
+233 – Ghana
+234 – Nigeria
+235 – Chad
+236 – Central African Republic
+237 – Cameroon
+238 – Cape Verde
+239 – São Tomé and Príncipe
+240 – Equatorial Guinea
+241 – Gabon
+242 – Republic of the Congo
+243 – Democratic Republic of the Congo
+244 – Angola
+245 – Guinea-Bissau
+246 – British Indian Ocean Territory
+247 – Ascension Island
+248 – Seychelles
+249 – Sudan
+250 – Rwanda
+251 – Ethiopia
+252 – Somalia
+253 – Djibouti
+254 – Kenya
+255 – Tanzania
- +255 24 – Zanzibar, in place of never-implemented +259
+256 – Uganda
+257 – Burundi
+258 – Mozambique
+259 – unassigned, was intended for Zanzibar but never implemented – see +255 Tanzania
+260 – Zambia
+261 – Madagascar
+262 – Réunion
- +262 269 / 639 – Mayotte (land / mobile, formerly with +269 Comoros)
+263 – Zimbabwe
+264 – Namibia
+265 – Malawi
+266 – Lesotho
+267 – Botswana
+268 – Swaziland
+269 – Comoros (Mayotte was here but moved to +262 Réunion)
+27 – South Africa
+28x – unassigned (Reserved for country code expansion)^[1]
+290 – Saint Helena
- +290 8 – Tristan da Cunha
+291 – Eritrea
+292 – unassigned
+293 – unassigned
+294 – unassigned
+295 – discontinued (was assigned to San Marino, see +378)
+296 – unassigned
+297 – Aruba
+298 – Faroe Islands
+299 – Greenland

Zones 3/4 – Europe

Originally larger countries, such as the United Kingdom or France, were assigned two-digit codes (to compensate for their usually longer domestic numbers) and small countries, such as Iceland, were assigned three-digit codes; however, since the 1980s, all new assignments have been three-digit regardless of countries’ populations.

+30 – Greece
+31 – Netherlands
+32 – Belgium
+33 – France
+34 – Spain
+350 – Gibraltar
+351 – Portugal
+352 – Luxembourg
+353 – Ireland
+354 – Iceland
+355 – Albania
+356 – Malta
+357 – Cyprus
+358 – Finland
- +358 18 – Åland
+359 – Bulgaria
+36 – Hungary
+37 – discontinued (was assigned to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) until April 1992; this area is now covered by Germany‘s country code +49)
+370 – Lithuania
+371 – Latvia
+372 – Estonia
+373 – Moldova
- +373 2 / 5 – Transnistria
+374 – Armenia
- +374 47 / 97 – Nagorno-Karabakh (landlines / mobile phones)
+375 – Belarus
+376 – Andorra
+377 – Monaco
- +377 44 / 45 – Kosovo (mobile phone networks)
+378 – San Marino
+379 – Vatican City assigned but uses +39 Italy.
+38 – discontinued (was assigned to Yugoslavia before break-up)
+380 – Ukraine
+381 – Serbia
- +381 28 / 29 / 38 / 39 – Kosovo for landlines but +377 Monaco and +386 Slovenia for mobile phones.
+382 – Montenegro
+383 – unassigned
+384 – unassigned
+385 – Croatia
+386 – Slovenia
- +386 43 / 49 – Kosovo (mobile phone networks)
+387 – Bosnia and Herzegovina
+388 – assigned to the discontinued European Telephony Numbering Space^[1]^[2]
+389 – Macedonia
+39 – Italy
- +39 06 698 – Vatican City (surrounded entirely by Rome)
+40 – Romania
+41 – Switzerland
+42 – previously assigned to Czechoslovakia until its breakup. Czech Republic and Slovakia used this common code until 1 March 1997.
+420 – Czech Republic
+421 – Slovakia
+422 – unassigned
+423 – Liechtenstein (formerly +41 75)
+424 – unassigned
+425 – unassigned
+426 – unassigned
+427 – unassigned
+428 – unassigned
+429 – unassigned
+43 – Austria
+44 – United Kingdom
- +44 1481 – Guernsey
- +44 1534 – Jersey
- +44 1624 – Isle of Man
+45 – Denmark
+46 – Sweden
+47 – Norway
- +47 79 – Svalbard
- +47 79 – Jan Mayen
+48 – Poland
+49 – Germany

Zone 5 – Mostly Latin America

+500 – Falkland Islands
- +500 x – South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+501 – Belize
+502 – Guatemala
+503 – El Salvador
+504 – Honduras
+505 – Nicaragua
+506 – Costa Rica
+507 – Panama
+508 – Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
+509 – Haiti
+51 – Peru
+52 – Mexico
+53 – Cuba
+54 – Argentina
+55 – Brazil
+56 – Chile
- +56 32 – Easter Island
+57 – Colombia
+58 – Venezuela
+590 – Guadeloupe (including Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)
+591 – Bolivia
+592 – Guyana
+593 – Ecuador
+594 – French Guiana
+595 – Paraguay
+596 – Martinique
+597 – Suriname
+598 – Uruguay
+599 – Former Netherlands Antilles, now grouped as follows:
- +599 3 – Sint Eustatius
- +599 4 – Saba
- +599 5 – formerly Sint Maarten – Now included in NANP as code +1-721 (see Zone 1, above)
- +599 7 – Bonaire
- +599 9 – Curacao

Zone 6 – Southeast Asia and Oceania

+60 – Malaysia
+61 – Australia (see also +672 below)
- +61 8 9162 – Cocos Islands
- +61 8 9164 – Christmas Island
+62 – Indonesia
+63 – Philippines
+64 – New Zealand
- +64 xx – Pitcairn Islands
+65 – Singapore
+66 – Thailand
+670 – East Timor – formerly Northern Mariana Islands which is now included in NANP as code +1-670 (See Zone 1, above)
+671 – formerly Guam – Now included in NANP as code +1-671 (See Zone 1, above)
+672 – Australian External Territories (see also +61 Australia above)
- +672 1x – Australian Antarctic Territory
- +672 3 – Norfolk Island
+673 – Brunei
+674 – Nauru
+675 – Papua New Guinea
+676 – Tonga
+677 – Solomon Islands
+678 – Vanuatu
+679 – Fiji
+680 – Palau
+681 – Wallis and Futuna
+682 – Cook Islands
+683 – Niue
+684 – formerly American Samoa – Now included in NANP as code +1-684 (See Zone 1, above)
+685 – Samoa
+686 – Kiribati
+687 – New Caledonia
+688 – Tuvalu
+689 – French Polynesia
+690 – Tokelau
+691 – Federated States of Micronesia
+692 – Marshall Islands
+693 – unassigned
+694 – unassigned
+695 – unassigned
+696 – unassigned
+697 – unassigned
+698 – unassigned
+699 – unassigned

Zone 7 – Eurasia (former Soviet Union)

+7 – Russia (managed by Russia; some codes assigned to territories outside Russia).
+7 6xx / 7xx – Kazakhstan
+7 840 / 940 – Abkhazia – see also +995 44

Zone 8 – East Asia and Special Services

+800 – International Freephone (UIFN)
+801 – unassigned
+802 – unassigned
+803 – unassigned
+804 – unassigned
+805 – unassigned
+806 – unassigned
+807 – unassigned
+808 – reserved for Shared Cost Services
+809 – unassigned
+81 – Japan
+82 – South Korea
+83x – unassigned (Reserved for country code expansion)^[1]
+84 – Vietnam
+850 – North Korea
+851 – unassigned
+852 – Hong Kong
+853 – Macau
+854 – unassigned
+855 – Cambodia
+856 – Laos
+857 – unassigned, formerly ANAC satellite service
+858 – unassigned, formerly ANAC satellite service
+859 – unassigned
+86 – China
+870 – Inmarsat “SNAC” service
+871 – unassigned (formerly used by Inmarsat, Atlantic East), discontinued in 2008
+872 – unassigned (formerly used by Inmarsat, Pacific), discontinued in 2008
+873 – unassigned (formerly used by Inmarsat, Indian), discontinued in 2008
+874 – unassigned (formerly used by Inmarsat, Atlantic West), discontinued 2008
+875 – reserved for Maritime Mobile service
+876 – reserved for Maritime Mobile service
+877 – reserved for Maritime Mobile service
+878 – Universal Personal Telecommunications services
+879 – reserved for national non-commercial purposes
+880 – Bangladesh
+881 – Global Mobile Satellite System
+882 – International Networks
+883 – International Networks
+884 – unassigned
+885 – unassigned
+886 – Taiwan
+887 – unassigned
+888 – Telecommunications for Disaster Relief by OCHA
+889 – unassigned
+89x – unassigned (Reserved for country code expansion)^[1]

Zone 9 – Central, South and Western Asia

+90 – Turkey
- +90 392 – Northern Cyprus
+91 – India
+92 – Pakistan
+93 – Afghanistan
+94 – Sri Lanka
+95 – Myanmar
+960 – Maldives
+961 – Lebanon
+962 – Jordan
+963 – Syria
+964 – Iraq
+965 – Kuwait
+966 – Saudi Arabia
+967 – Yemen
+968 – Oman
+969 – unassigned – originally South Yemen, now covered under 967 Yemen (formerly North Yemen)
+970 – Palestinian territories
+971 – United Arab Emirates
+972 – Israel
+973 – Bahrain
+974 – Qatar
+975 – Bhutan
+976 – Mongolia
+977 – Nepal
+978 – unassigned – originally assigned to Dubai, now covered under 971
+979 – International Premium Rate Service – originally assigned to Abu Dhabi, now covered under 971
+98 – Iran
+990 – unassigned
+991 – International Telecommunications Public Correspondence Service trial (ITPCS)
+992 – Tajikistan
+993 – Turkmenistan
+994 – Azerbaijan
+995 – Georgia
- +995 44 – Abkhazia^[3]^[4] – see also +7 840, 940.
- +995 xx – South Ossetia
+996 – Kyrgyzstan
+997 – unassigned
+998 – Uzbekistan
+999 – reserved for future global service

Fax Number

First, the international dialing prefix is entered, then country code, then the fax number.

It is important to double check to ensure that the fax number you have been given does not replicate either the international dialing code or the country code of the location you are sending. Some people will send this information (or the wrong international prefix) when sending fax numbers internationally, and can sometimes confuse a transmission.