Faroe Islands

The country calling code for Faroe Islands is +298. 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 Faroe Islands number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Faroe Islands is assigned FO as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and FRO 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 Faroe Islands is .fo. 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 Faroe Islands is the Danish krone, Faroese króna, with the ISO 4217 code DKK, FOK and the symbol kr, kr. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Faroe Islands are quoted in DKK, FOK. 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 Faroe Islands is +00:00, currently UTC+00:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Faroe Islands is Tórshavn. Faroe Islands sits in Europe, specifically the Northern Europe subregion. Its approximate centre point is 62.00000000, -7.00000000. Languages recorded for Faroe Islands: Faroese.

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