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Up-to-date phone codes and explanations are to be found at: kropla.com/dialcode.htm Kropla.com also has an excellent explanation of mobile phone systems.
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Thanks to John Guy who started the research for this page
Phones and phone codes Much of the Eastern Caribbean falls into the North America Numbering Plan (NANP). The country code for all NANP countries is 1 and the numbers that follow work just like area codes in the U.S. and Canada. These countries and their country codes are as follows: USA 1 +
areacode Unfortunately this does not apply to the French Islands. Of these there are basically two: Martinique and then Guadeloupe, which includes St Barts and St Martin. Let us take Guadeloupe, St Barts and St Martin first. All their phone numbers begin with 0590 (regular phones) or 0690 (cell phones) this is followed by a 6 more digits. eg: 0590-71-92-92. Within any French territory this is what you dial. When dialing from overseas, the country code for Guadeloupe is also 590. So if you are dialing from abroad you first dial the exit code for that country (in the USA 011) then you dial the country code 590, then you dial the number, but you leave off the first 0. Thus to get the same number from the USA we showed before, you would dial 00-590-590-71-92-92. If it was a cell phone you would dial: 00-590-690-71-92-92 Martinique is the same, except the country code is 596 and the phone numbers start either 0596 (regular) or 0696 (cell). So to give the same example - within French territory 0596-71-92-92. From abroad exit code plus 596-596-71-92-92 That leaves the Netherland Antilles all their number begin with 599 followed by 7 digits. When you dial from overseas you dial the exit code plus this number. If dialing within the Dutch Antilles you leave off the 599 and dial 0 instead.
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