Telephone numbers in Taiwan

Taiwan telephone numbers
Location
Country Taiwan
Continent Asia
Regulator NCC
Type open
Access codes
Country calling code +886
International call prefix 002, 005, 006, 007, 009, 019, 9002, 9005, 9006, 9007, 9009
Trunk prefix 0

Area codes

The emergency number in Taiwan is 119.

When making an inter-area long-distance call from within Taiwan, a long-distance prefix "0" is required. If calls are made from within the same area code, then the 0 of the area code prefix (or the entire area code itself) does not need to be included.

If calls are made from outside Taiwan, the "0" of the area code prefix is omitted.

The following table of area codes includes this "0" prefix. The government reserves code 1 for Nanjing, the capital of the ROC according to the constitution, which it does not actually control.

Prefix Area[1] Divisions Digits Notes
02
TaipeiTaipei City, New Taipei City, Keelung City8starts with 2 and 8 (major), 3, 5, 6 and 7 (minor)
03
TaoyuanTaoyuan City7starts with 2 (minor), 3 (Taoyuan District), 4 (Zhongli)
03
HsinchuHsinchu City, Hsinchu County7starts with 5 (major), 6 (minor)
03
HualienHualien County7starts with 8
03
YilanYilan County7starts with 9
037
MiaoliMiaoli County6
04
TaichungTaichung City8starts with 22-24 & 270 (urban area), 25 (Fengyuan, including Zhuolan, Miaoli), 26 (Dajia and Shalu), 3 (minor)
04
ChanghuaChanghua County7starts with 7 (Changhua City), 8 (Yuanlin)
049
NantouNantou County7starts with 2, including Fenyuan, Changhua, 5-7 (minor)
05
ChiayiChiayi City, Chiayi County7starts with 2 (Chiayi City and Minxiong), 3 (Dongshi)
05
YunlinYunlin County7starts with 5 (Douliu), 6 (Huwei), 7 (Beigang)
06
TainanTainan City7starts with 2 & 3 (urban area), 5 (Xinhua and Shanhua), 6 (Xinying), 7 (Jiali)
06
PenghuPenghu County7starts with 9
07
KaohsiungKaohsiung City7including the Pratas Islands and the Spratly Islands

(Note: 070 prefix is used for VOIP phone services, these numbers are 8 digits instead of 7).

08
PingtungPingtung County7starts with 7 (Pingtung City and Chaozhou), 8 (Donggang and Hengchun)
082
KinmenKinmen County6mainly starts with 3
0826
WuqiuWuqiu Township5starts with 6
0836
MatsuLienchiang County5starts with 2 (Nangan), 5(Beigan), 7 (Dongyin), 8 (Juguang)
089
TaitungTaitung County6
Note: Inter-area calls are defined as long-distance phone calls even they have identical prefix.

Mobile phones

Taiwan mobile phone numbers always begin with 09 followed by 8 digits (e.g. 0912-345678). The 0 is omitted when calling a Taiwan mobile phone number from outside Taiwan (e.g. +886 9XXXXXXXX). If calling a landline Taiwan phone number from a local Taiwan mobile phone, the 0 of area code prefix must be included (e.g. 0 + area code + 8 digit landline number).

Prefixes: (09)XXXX-XXXX

090-098 Mobile Phones (090 range is mostly used for wireless data services,M2M).

Toll-free and premium rate

Toll-free numbers begin with the prefix 0800[2].

Numbers in the 020x prefix are used for value-added services[3]:

Prefix Purpose
0201 Voting services
0203 Bulk announcements
0204 Premium rate numbers

International dialing codes

International dialing codes are assigned by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to its member states and their dependencies. However, as Taiwan was not an ITU member state, it had to be allocated the code 886 unofficially, with the ITU listing the code as 'reserved' until 2006.[4] However, in that year, it formally allocated the code to "Taiwan, China".[5] Until the late 1970s, Taiwan used the code 866, but the 86 code was reassigned to the People's Republic of China in conformity with the ITU's official membership, forcing Taiwan to utilize another code for countries that wished to maintain direct dial connections.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Chunghwa Telecom
  2. ↑ "Chunghwa Telecom". www.cht.com.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  3. ↑ "Chunghwa Telecom". www.cht.com.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  4. ↑ List of ITU-T Recommendation E.164, Assigned Country Codes, (Position on 1 May 2005)
  5. ↑ ITU Operational Bulletin, No. 870 – 4
  6. ↑ The story of Taiwan's calling code, Taipei Times, 5 October 2010

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