Romania Country Code 40 | RO | ROU | .ro

Romania’s Country Codes

• Telephone: +40
• 2 Letter: RO
• 3 Letter: ROU
• ISO 3116-1 Numeric: 642
• Internet TLD: .ro
• ICAO Airport Code: LR
• Maritime Identification Digits: 264
• Emoji Flag: U+1F1F7 U+1F1F4
• Official Name: Romania

How to call Romania (international dialing)

• Do not include a leading ‘0’ in the international call sequence – it is only used in Romania 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.

Romania’s country code may be mislabeled:

• Country code 0040 (exit code of ’00’ used in many European, Asian, and African nations followed by Romania’s country code of ’40’).
• Country code 01140 (exit code of ‘011’ used in the United States and Canada followed by Romania’s country code of ’40’).

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 where the call is dialed.

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

Use the same call sequence.

Mobile area codes start with ’07’ (or ‘7’ when dialed from outside Romania).

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

… to a VoIP phone

Use the same call sequence.

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

… to a satellite phone

Romania 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 Romania (domestic dialing)

‘0’ is used as a trunk prefix when dialing a phone call in Romania.

Always include the leading ‘0’ and the area code for domestic phone calls, even when calling within the same area code.

Local example – calling from another location in Bucharest

Dial the entire phone number including the trunk prefix ‘0’ and the area code even when calling within the same area code.

Long distance example – calling to a different area code or from a moblie phone (including a foreign mobile phone roaming in Romania)

Dial a leading trunk prefix ‘0’ as well as the area code for all calls within Romania.

International example – calling from outside Romania

To call from outside Romania, dial the exit code of the country the call is dialed from, followed by Romania’s country code of ’40’, followed by the local phone number.

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

How to call from Romania

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

Sources and more resources

• ANCOM (National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania) – Official regulator for telecommunications in Romania.
• 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 – Romania – Update on internet and wireless access across the European single market. Has a focus on broadband but 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 – Romania (country code +40) national numbering plan on file with ITU – Details of Romania’s telephone numbering plan as submitted to the ITU. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
• ANCOM (National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania) – Numbering – National telephone numbering plan for Romania.
• Wikipedia – Telephone Numbers in Romania – Wikipedia entry for telephone number data for Romania. Includes specific number ranges for each city as well as detail on calling procedures.
• BT – the Phonebook – Romania International Codes – Summary of phone codes for Romania from the BT phone book.