The French telephone numbering plan is not only used for metropolitan France, but also for the French overseas departments and collectivités territoriales. Metropolitan France (French: France métropolitaine, or just la Métropole) is the part of France in Europe, including Corsica, as opposed to the overseas departments and overseas territories, which, while integral parts of the French Republic, are regarded as Overseas France (la France doutre-mer, or more colloquially... Under the 1946 Constitution of the Fourth Republic, the French colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana in the Caribbean and Réunion in the Indian Ocean became départements doutre-mer (Overseas departments) or DOMs. ...

In the late 1980s, France changed to a closed telephone numbering plan, with the area code being incorporated into the subscriber's eight-digit number. To call the rest of France from Paris, however, the prefix 16 had to be dialed before the eight-digit number, and to call Paris from the rest of France, the prefix 16 1 had to be dialed. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating telephone number ranges to countries, regions, areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks such as mobile phone networks. ...

In 1996, this changed to a ten-digit numbering scheme, as follows: 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

 01 Paris 02 Northwest France 03 Northeast France 04 Southeast France 05 Southwest France 06 Mobile phone services 08 Freephone (numéro vert) and shared-cost services. 

A toll-free telephone number (or Freephone number in the UK) is a special telephone number, in which the calling party is not charged for the call by the telephone operator. ... Image File history File links Numerotation-france. ...

All geographic numbers had to be dialed in the ten-digit format, even for local calls. The international access code also changed from 19 to 00. Following liberalisation in 1998, subscribers could access different carriers by replacing the '0' (omitted from numbers when called from outside France) with another digit, for example Cegetel, required subscribers to dial '7', e.g: Paris 71 xx xx xx xx, instead of 01 xx xx xx xx. Similarly, the international access code using Cegetel would be '70', instead of '00'. Each country has both a country calling code used to dial into a country and an international access code or international call prefix used to dial out of the country. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Until 1996, Monaco formed part of the French numbering plan, with eight-digit numbers beginning with 93, but in that year the principality adopted the country code 377. Consequently, all calls from France to Monaco must be dialed in international format 00 377 xx xx xx xx, while calls from Monaco to neighboring areas in France similarly must be dialed as 00 33 4 xx xx xx xx. In 1994, Andorra adopted its own country code 376, replacing access via the French numbering plan (+33 628 xxxxx). 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... A principality is a monarchical feudatory or sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a Monarch with the title of prince or princess (a synonym is princedom) or (in the widest sense) a Monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince. ...

The French overseas departments (départements d'outre mer or DOMs), Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Réunion have separate country codes from metropolitan France, although they are treated as part of the French numbering plan, with direct dialing for calls between the DOMs (including collectivités territoriales) and metropolitan France. Since 2001, telephone numbers in the DOMs have followed the same ten-digit format as metropolitan France, with the country code being used as a geographical area code, e.g: Under the 1946 Constitution of the Fourth Republic, the French colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana in the Caribbean and Réunion in the Indian Ocean became départements doutre-mer (Overseas departments) or DOMs. ...

 Guadeloupe Fixed phone line: +590 (0)590 xxx xxx Mobile phone line: +590 (0)690 xxx xxx 

 French Guiana Fixed phone line: +594 (0)594 xxx xxx Mobile phone line: +594 (0)694 xxx xxx 

 Martinique Fixed phone line: +596 (0)596 xxx xxx Mobile phone line: +596 (0)696 xxx xxx 

 Réunion Fixed phone line: +262 (0)262 xxx xxx Mobile phone line: +262 (0)692 xxx xxx 

Calls between the DOMs and metropolitan France require only the '0' to be dialed. Calls to the collectivités territoriales of Mayotte and Saint Pierre and Miquelon require '0', country code and the subscriber's six-digit number for, eg:

 Mayotte 0269 xxx xxx 

 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0508 xxx xxx 

Calls to and from the territoires d'outre mer, however, require full international dialing, hence the international access code and country code must be used

 Paris from New Caledonia: 00 33 1 xx xx xx xx, New Caledonia from Paris: 00 687 xxx xxx 

External links

• ARCEP: La numérotation, French official plan
• World Telephone Numbering Guide: France