On February 1, 2004

Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...

introduced a new

telephone numbering plan A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints. Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, reach ...

. The

telephone country code A telephone country code is a country-specific telephone number prefix for international direct dialing (IDD), a system for reaching telephone service subscribers in foreign areas via international telecommunication networks. Country codes are de ...

is +373, adopted in 1993. Previously, when Moldova was part of the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

, it used country code 7 and the area code 0422.

Numbering plan

Telephone numbers in Moldova are assigned in an

open numbering plan A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints. Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, reach ...

and consist of eight digits. The national significant number (NSN) consists of two or three digits for the national destination code and five or six digits for the subscriber number (SN).

National destination code

National destination codes are allocated as follows: The

trunk prefix A trunk prefix is a digit sequence to be dialled before a telephone number to initiate a telephone call for the purpose of selecting an appropriate telecommunications circuit by which the call is to be routed. Making a domestic (national) teleph ...

in Moldova is 0.

Area codes

Dialling example

* 071-xxx-xxxx – call within Chişinău * 02xx-xxx-xxx – call between other localities in Moldova * 0xxx-xxx-xxx – call between localities and mobile phone companies * +373-0xxx-xxx-xxx – call between Moldova and

Transnistria Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a Landlocked country, landlocked Transnistria conflict#International recognition of Transnistria, breakaway state internationally recogn ...

References

External links

Telecommunications in Moldova

Telephone numbers A telephone number is the address of a telecommunication endpoint, such as a telephone, in a telephone network, such as the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A telephone number typically consists of a sequence of digits, but histori ...

{{Telephonenumber-stub