Christmas Island

The country calling code for Christmas Island is +61. 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 Christmas Island number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Christmas Island is assigned CX as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and CXR 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 Christmas Island is .cx. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Christmas Island is the Australian dollar, with the ISO 4217 code AUD and the symbol $. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Christmas Island are quoted in AUD. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Christmas Island is +07:00, currently UTC+07:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Christmas Island is Flying Fish Cove. Christmas Island sits in Oceania, specifically the Australia and New Zealand subregion. Its approximate centre point is -10.50000000, 105.66666666. Traffic in Christmas Island drives on the left. Languages recorded for Christmas Island: English.

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