All countries in the Americas use telephone country codes that start with 5, with the exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada and the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit 2, which otherwise is mostly used by countries in Africa.
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Location in the Americas Prefix International call prefix Trunk prefix Comment Anguilla Caribbean 1-264 011 1 Antigua and Barbuda Caribbean 1-268 011 1 Argentina South 54 00 0 Aruba Caribbean 297 00 Bahamas Caribbean 1-242 011 1 Barbados Caribbean 1-246 011 1 Belize Central 501 Bermuda North 1-441 011 1 Bolivia South 591 00 0 Brazil South 55 00 xx 0 British Virgin Islands Caribbean 1-284 011 1 Canada North 1 011 1 Several NANP codes; see Telephone numbers in Canada. Caribbean Netherlands Caribbean 599-3, 4, or 7 00 Cayman Islands Caribbean 1-345 011 1 Chile South 56 1xx0 Colombia South 57 00 0 Trunk followed by 1- or 3-digit carrier code Costa Rica Central 506 00 Cuba Caribbean 53 00 0 Curaçao Caribbean 599-9 00 Dominica Caribbean 1-767 011 1 Dominican Republic Caribbean 1-809, 829, 849 011 1 Ecuador South 593 00 0 El Salvador Central 503 Falkland Islands South 500 00 French Guiana South 594 00 0 Greenland North 299 00 Grenada Caribbean 1-473 011 1 Guadeloupe Caribbean 590 00 0 Guatemala Central 502 00 Guyana South 592 00 Haiti Caribbean 509 00 Honduras Central 504 00 Jamaica Caribbean 1-658, 876 011 1 Martinique Caribbean 596 00 0 Mexico North 52 00 Montserrat Caribbean 1-664 011 1 Nicaragua Central 505 00 Panama Central 507 00 Paraguay South 595 00 0 Peru South 51 00 0 Puerto Rico Caribbean 1-787, 939 011 1 Saint Barthélemy Caribbean 590 00 Saint Kitts and Nevis Caribbean 1-869 011 1 Saint Lucia Caribbean 1-758 011 1 Collectivity of Saint Martin Caribbean 590 00 Saint Pierre and Miquelon North 508 00 0 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Caribbean 1-784 011 1 Sint Maarten Caribbean 1-721 011 1 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South 500 00 Suriname South 597 00 Trinidad and Tobago Caribbean 1-868 011 1 Turks and Caicos Islands Caribbean 1-649 011 1 United States North 1 011 1 Many NANP numbering plan areas United States Virgin Islands Caribbean 1-340 011 1 Uruguay South 598 00 No national call prefix needed since 29 August 2010 according to the new numbering plan.All geographical numbers have eight digits. Venezuela South 58 00 0
See also Telephone numbering plan National conventions for writing telephone numbers List of telephone country codes List of international call prefixes List of North American Numbering Plan area codes Area codes in the Caribbean :Category:Telephone numbers by country
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