Phone prefix for Australia: 00

You can use the phone prefix when you are in Australia and want to call someone who is not in Australian territories. If you are outside Australia and want to make a phone call to someone who is in Australia, you first have to look up the right prefix number for that country in the prefix number list (see continental list).

How to use the area codes in Australia

The area code must be used after the prefix number and the country code (when dialing to a foreign country) but before the rest of the numbers. The area code is ussually the last code before the rest of the 'personal' phone number.

Area codes for the areas in Australia

Area codes other countries

India, Iraq, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, Vietnam

Home country code & phone prefix number guide

Central East Australia 2:

South East Australia 3:

Queensland 7:

Central & West Australia: 8

Special Australian telephone numbers

Satellite phone services: 014

mobile services (Digital - GSM, CDMA, 3G): 04

Universal/Personal numberings: 05

non-geographic numbers: 1

See each other on the phone

Did you know there are phones that also have the capability to play video while having a normal phone call? Such a phone is called a Videophone. With a videophone you can call just like a normal phone but a videophone

includes a small camera and screen so you can also see each other while making the phone call. You can have a look at the latest videophone models in the videophone guide.