Telephone numbers in Belarus

Belarus began using its own country code +375 in 1995, replacing the +7 international country code inherited from the Soviet Union.^[1] The local numbering plan was inherited from the Soviet Union and remains with few changes.

Geographic area codes were designed based on previous 3-digit USSR area codes by removing the lead 0. Calling across areas still requires dialing trunk prefix 8 and waiting for dialtone after that. This pause was initially required by the analog trunk switches to identify the caller from PSTN for billing purposes.

When calling within Belarus, the trunk prefix must be followed by 0. In 2003, the abbreviated dialling within a single area code was replaced with a full 9-digit number + 2-digit trunk prefix. Previously it was possible to dial 82RRnn-nnn to reach a number in the same area. Now it is required to dial 80~AARRnn-nnn where AA is the area code, RR is the region code and nn-nnn is the local number.

International calling remains unchanged: 8~10-xxx...xxxx where 8 is a trunk prefix, 10 is the international access code, xxx...xxxx are the digits of the destination country, areas and local number.