Antarctica

The country calling code for Antarctica is +672. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Antarctica number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Antarctica is assigned AQ as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and ATA as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Antarctica is .aq. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The primary time zone for Antarctica is -03:00, currently UTC-03:00. This country spans multiple time zones. The clock above shows the primary time zone, so local time elsewhere in Antarctica may differ. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

No land borders are recorded for Antarctica in this dataset, which is typical of island states and territories. The nearby page still ranks the closest countries by straight-line distance.