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Phone Number Lookup
Find the country, city, carrier, line type and time zone of any phone number — and every way to write it.
- Country
- City / region
- Carrier
- Line type
- Time zones
- Private
How to look up a phone number
- 1
Enter the number
Type or paste the phone number. Start with "+" and the country code (like +44 20 7183 8750), or leave it off and choose the country the number was dialled in.
- 2
Press Look Up
The lookup reads the number against the numbering plan on our server. Nothing is sent to a third party.
- 3
Read the result
See the country, city or region, line type, original carrier, time zones with the local time there, validity and every standard format, ready to copy.
How a phone number is built
Every international phone number follows the same shape. Read left to right, it tells you which country, which area inside it, and finally which line.
- + stands for the international call prefix, which is 00 in most countries and 011 in the US and Canada.
- Country code (1 to 3 digits) names the country or region. 44 is the United Kingdom.
- Area code (the national destination code) points at a city, region or kind of service. 20 is London. Inside a country it is usually dialled with a leading 0, the trunk prefix, which you drop when calling from abroad.
- Subscriber number is the line itself.
What the line types mean
- Mobile
- A cellular number, tied to a SIM or eSIM on a mobile network.
- Landline
- A landline: usually a home or office line, and the kind that most often points to a specific city.
- Landline or mobile
- In some countries landlines and mobiles share ranges, so the numbering plan cannot say which this is.
- Toll-free
- Free for the caller from inside the country. Usually a business, support line or call centre.
- Premium rate
- Bills the caller well above normal rates for calls or texts. Check the price before you ring or reply.
- Shared cost
- The caller pays part of the cost and the business pays the rest.
- VoIP
- An internet-based number. Easy to set up from anywhere, so where the number "is" says little about where its owner is.
- Personal number
- A number that follows its owner by forwarding to whichever phone they choose.
- Universal access number
- A universal access number: one number a company uses to reach its offices or staff wherever they are.
- Pager
- A number for a pager.
- Voicemail
- A number that goes straight to a voicemail service.
Country calling codes people look up most
Enter any number with its + country code above to see exactly where it is from. These are the codes you will meet most often; choose a country for how to dial it, or see every country calling code and the US and Canada area codes.
| Country | Calling code |
|---|---|
| United States | +1 |
| Canada | +1 |
| United Kingdom | +44 |
| India | +91 |
| China | +86 |
| Japan | +81 |
| Germany | +49 |
| France | +33 |
| Brazil | +55 |
| Australia | +61 |
| Mexico | +52 |
| Russia | +7 |
| South Korea | +82 |
| Italy | +39 |
| Spain | +34 |
| Türkiye | +90 |
| Indonesia | +62 |
| Pakistan | +92 |
| Nigeria | +234 |
| Egypt | +20 |
| South Africa | +27 |
| Saudi Arabia | +966 |
| United Arab Emirates | +971 |
| Israel | +972 |
| Ukraine | +380 |
| Poland | +48 |
| Netherlands | +31 |
| Sweden | +46 |
| Argentina | +54 |
| Colombia | +57 |
Frequently asked questions
What can a phone number lookup tell me?
Everything the numbering plan itself encodes: the country and often the city or region a number was issued in, whether it is a mobile, landline, VoIP, toll-free or premium-rate line, the network it was first allocated to, its time zones, whether its format is valid, and every standard way of writing it.
Can it tell me who owns a number or who is calling?
No. Owner names, caller ID and whether a number is currently in service are not part of the numbering plan, and this tool does not guess at them. If you need that, ask your phone provider or the person who gave you the number.
How can I tell which country a phone number is from?
Look at the country calling code, the digits after the "+" or after "00": +1 is the US and Canada, +44 the United Kingdom, +91 India, +81 Japan. Enter the number with its "+" and this page reads the country, and the city where the plan allows, for you. For a number typed without a "+", choose the country it was dialled in.
How do I tell whether a number is mobile, landline or VoIP?
Countries reserve ranges of numbers for each kind of line, and the lookup reports which range the number falls in. Some countries, including the US and Canada, mix landlines and mobiles in the same ranges, so the result says "landline or mobile". A VoIP number that was ported into a mobile range cannot be told apart by the numbering plan.
Is the carrier shown the number’s current provider?
It is the carrier the number range was originally allocated to. Number portability lets people keep their number when they switch provider, so the current carrier can be different. Landline and non-geographic ranges often have no carrier listed.
Is my lookup private?
Yes. Lookups run on our own server from Google’s libphonenumber data. The number is not sent to any third party and is not stored. Pages with a number in their address are marked so search engines do not index them.
What is E.164 format?
E.164 is the international standard for writing a phone number: a plus sign, the country calling code, then the number, with no spaces or punctuation, for example +14155552671. Apps, phone systems and messaging services use it to store and compare numbers.
Why do some countries share a calling code?
A few codes cover several countries: +1 is the United States, Canada and many Caribbean nations (the North American Numbering Plan), and +7 is Russia and Kazakhstan. The area code or the first digits tell them apart, and this lookup shows which country a number is in.
Does a valid number mean it is in service?
No. "Valid" means the number matches a pattern the country’s numbering plan uses, so it could exist. Whether anyone currently has it, and whether it is switched on, is not something the numbering plan can say.