Croatia Country Code 385 | HR | HRV | .hr

Croatia’s Country Codes

• Telephone: +385
• 2 Letter: HR
• 3 Letter: HRV
• ISO 3116-1 Numeric: 191
• Internet TLD: .hr
• ICAO Airport Code: LD
• Maritime Identification Digits: 238
• Emoji Flag: U+1F1ED U+1F1F7
• Official Name: The Republic of Croatia

How to call Croatia (international dialing)

• Do not include a leading ‘0’ in the international call sequence – it is only used in Croatia for domestic long distance calls and domestic calls to a mobile phone.
• A leading '+' in the phone number means 'dial your country's exit code'.
• Calling from a mobile phone: dial from on the country where you're currently located.
• Calling from a VoIP or satellite phone: dial from on the country where the phone is registered.

Croatia’s country code may be mislabeled:

• Country code 00385 (exit code of ’00’ used in many European, Asian, and African nations followed by Croatia’s country code of ‘385’).
• Country code 011385 (exit code of ‘011’ used in the United States and Canada followed by Croatia’s country code of ‘385’).

When calling to a mislabeled country code, remove the exit code from the call sequence and replace it with the exit code of the country the call is dialed .

… to a mobile (cellular) phone or text (SMS)

Use the same call sequence.

Mobile phone numbers begin with ‘9’.

When calling a mobile phone user, dial to the country where the mobile phone is registered, regardless of where the person is currently roaming.

… to a VoIP phone

Use the same call sequence.

When calling a VoIP phone user, cdial to the country where the VoIP phone is registered, regardless of where the person is currently roaming.

… to a satellite phone

Croatia does not have a country-specific satellite phone system.

Most satellite phones operate on their country code – calls to these satellite phones follow their call sequence.

… sending a fax

Use the same call sequence.

How to call within Croatia (domestic dialing)

‘0’ is used as a trunk prefix when calling to a different area code in Croatia.

Local calling (within the same area code)

To dial a phone call within the same area code only dial the local phone number. Do not include the trunk prefix ‘0’ or the area code.

Long distance calling (to a different area code or a mobile phone)

To dial a phone call to a different area code dial the trunk prefix ‘0’ and the area code followed by the local phone number.

Croatian phone numbers explained

Number details

Croatian phone numbers are nine digits (ten digits including a leading ‘0’ that is not dialed in an international call).

The first one to two digits are part of the area code. The city of Zagreb (area code ‘1’) is the only one digit area code.

Mobile numbers being with digit ‘9’. The first two to three digits of a mobile phone number signify the phone carrier.

An example of a Croatian phone number

The Croatian Museum of Naive Art lists its phone number in Zagreb as +385.1.4851911.

Number explanation

Local example – calling from another location in Zagreb

Only dial the local phone number. Do not include the trunk prefix ‘0’ or the area code.

Long distance example – calling from Dubrovnik, Croatia (on the other side of the country)

Dial the trunk prefix ‘0’ followed by the area code followed by the local phone number.

Mobile example – calling from a mobile phone (including a foreign mobile phone roaming in Croatia)

Dial the trunk prefix ‘0’ followed by the area code followed by the local phone number.

International example – calling from outside Croatia

To call from outside Croatia, dial the exit code of the country the call is dialed from, followed by Croatia’s country code of ‘385’, followed by the local phone number.

Do not include a leading ‘0’ in the call when calling from outside Croatia.

How to call from Croatia

’00’ is used as an exit code when dialing an international call from Croatia.

Sources and more resources

• HAKOM (Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries) – Official regulator for telecommunications in Croatia.
• BEREC (Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications) – European agency responsible for regulation and co-ordination of European telecommunication markets.
• European Commission Digital Single Market – Telecom Rules for the Digital Single Market. Outlines some of the telecommunications regulations across the European Single Market.
• European Commission Digital Single Market – Country information – Croatia – Update on internet and wireless access across the European single market. Has a focus on broadband, however includes wireless information as well.
• ITU (International Telecommunications Union) – United Nations specialized agency for information and communications technologies.
• International Telecommunications Union – DIALLING PROCEDURES (INTERNATIONAL PREFIX, NATIONAL (TRUNK) PREFIX AND NATIONAL (SIGNIFICANT) NUMBER) (IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITU-T RECOMMENDATION E.164 (11/2010)) – A collection of dialing procedures for all countries and regions of the world. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
• International Telecommunications Union – Croatia (country code +385) Communication of 21.III.2016 national numbering plan on file with ITU – Details of Croatia’s telephone numbering plan as submitted to the ITU. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
• HAKOM (Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries) – Numbering and Addressing – Details on the Croatian telephone numbering space.
• Wikipedia – Telephone Numbers in Croatia – Wikipedia entry for telephone number data for Croatia. Includes specific number ranges for each city as well as detail on calling procedures.
• BT – the Phonebook – Croatia International Codes – Summary of phone codes for Croatia from the BT phone book.