Telephone numbers in Somalia

Somalia, Somaliland telephone numbers

Somalia (dark green)
Location
Country	Somalia, Somaliland
Continent	Africa
Access codes
Country calling code	+252
International call prefix	00

Calling formats

To call in Somalia, the following format is used:

• yxx xxxx, yy xxx xxx or yyy xxx xxx - Calls within Somalia
• +252 yxx xxxx, +252 yy xxx xxx or +252 yyy xxx xxx - Calls from outside Somalia

List of area codes in Somalia

LIST OF AREA CODES
Area Code	Area/City
01	Mogadishu
03	Hargeisa
04	Garowe

The telecommunication industry in Somalia is managed by few business people based in Mogadishu, Djibouti and Kenya since the collapse of the Siad Barre government in 1990. Many transitional and now the UN recognised federal government officials tried to get the management of telecom sector back into the open, legal government authority. All attempts to achieve that have failed so far. The current Somali government sought the help of the ITU, unfortunately the ITU cannot enforce national laws; it can help where possible, but that is the best they can do. So as the private group that runs the Somali telecom sector and now the finance sector as well via their combined telecom and mobile money combination, gets richer and more powerful. The ITU runs 101 courses for the Somali telecom Ministry, the longer it will take telecom Somali numbering plan to become reliable and credible.

LIST OF NEW ALLOCATIONS SINCE 2013
Service	Numbering range
Mobile GSM	90 XXX XXXX
	91 XXX XXX
	93 XXX XXX to 99 XXX XXX
	707 XXX XXX
Fixed	5 5XX XXX
	5 7XX XXX
	5 8XX XXX

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