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An international body called the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva, Switzerland, assigns the telephone country codes.
Post codes for Geneva are in the range 1200 to 1299.
The telephone country code system as we know it today was created in 1964 by the CCITT, an international telecommunications standards body that is now known as the ITU.
International telephone country codes are grouped by geographic zones. Zone 1, which contains only country code +1, is North America, including the USA, Canada, and certain islands in or near the Caribbean. Zone 2 is Africa. Zone 3/4 is Europe. Zone 5 is the Americas, except the part in Zone 1. Zone 6 is Australia/Pacific. Zone 7 was originally the USSR, but is now just Russia and Kazakhstan, which continue to share country code +7. Zone 8 is east Asia. Zone 9 is the rest of Asia. Only two zones have one-digit country codes, +1 for North America and +7 for Russia and Kazakhstan. Other countries have two- or three-digit codes. There are also country codes assigned for certain international purposes. An international body, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland, is responsible for assigning telephone country codes.
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There are several different kinds of country codes for different purposes. Telephone country codes can be found in the related links.
This are codes for every country that are assigned for the International Aviation Trasportation Association, for international flights...
Country codes do not begin with zero.
There is a partial list at the related site below.
Each country (or in a couple of cases, group of countries) has its own internal telephone numbering system. Country codes provide a uniform system of dialing out of your own country's system into a different country.
BGD is Bangladesh in the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 system. Three-letter country codes are not used for telephone country codes or Internet domains, but are used for various purposes including passport codes.
Kiribati is country code +686. There are no city codes or area codes. The local number is 5 digits.