Egypt is +20

A local writes 010 1234 5678 — the dialer below turns that into what you press.

Country code
+20
Dialing out
00
Trunk prefix
0

Egyptian numbers carry a trunk zero that disappears internationally, so 010 1234 5678 is +20 10 1234 5678. Dial 00 to call out. The second digit sorts the traffic: 1 means mobile, while 2 for Cairo and 3 for Alexandria lead the main fixed-line areas.

Mobiles are eleven digits starting 010, 011, 012 or 015; Cairo landlines are 02 plus eight digits.

You dial

011 20 1012345678

011 exits United States · 20 reaches Egypt · the leading 0 stays home. From any mobile, +20 1012345678 works worldwide.

Type the number the way a local writes it — the arithmetic is derived from each country's ITU plan.

Plan facts verified against ITU-T E.164 assigned country codes · Telephone numbers in Egypt — Wikipedia. Prose is our own.

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