From North Dakota and Minnesota families with roots in the fjords to Americans ringing a hotel in Tromsø or a university centre on Svalbard, calling Norway means eight digits dialed exactly as written, no area codes, and a country where the landline has all but vanished.
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To reach a Norway number from the United States, dial these three parts in order.
011 47 40 61 23 45
From any mobile, anywhere in the world, you can dial +47 40 61 23 45 instead. Press and hold 0 to type the +, and the phone picks the right access code for wherever you are.
Numbers in Norway carry no leading trunk digit, so there is nothing to strip. 40 61 23 45 is dialed exactly as written, with +47 in front. Removing a digit here is what makes the call fail.
A Norway mobile number is 8 digits after +47. If a call does not connect, count the digits first.
Only the first part changes. Your access code replaces the 011, then 47 and the number stay exactly the same.
A ~ means wait for the second dial tone before dialing the rest. It is not a digit you press.
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Norway's biggest American connection is heritage on a scale few countries match. About 3.86 million Americans report Norwegian ancestry, with Minnesota (about 662,000), Wisconsin, Washington and California home to the most - US Census Bureau, ACS 2024. In the northern Plains it is a defining identity: in the 2019 to 2023 survey, 21.4% of North Dakotans and 12.5% of Minnesotans reported Norwegian ancestry, with South Dakota close behind at 11.1% - US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023. Those are the calls to second cousins in Bergen or a family farm in Trøndelag, often around a reunion or a genealogy trip.
The everyday family traffic is smaller: about 19,800 people born in Norway live in the US - US Census Bureau, ACS 2024, while in the other direction 11,192 immigrants from the United States lived in Norway at the start of 2026 - Statistics Norway. Add business and travel calls to Oslo offices, hotels in Tromsø or Bergen, and on Svalbard the research and tourism businesses of Longyearbyen, all on the same +47 code.
Dialing out of Norway starts with 00, the international prefix since 1994, when it replaced the old 095 at the same time the emergency numbers became 110, 112 and 113 - Wikipedia. So the US is 00 1 and Sweden 00 46; on a mobile, + works the same way. Norway's outbound calling map is drawn by its immigrants: on 1 January 2026, 987,120 immigrants made up 17.5% of the population, and the largest groups came from Poland (111,740), Ukraine (85,461), Lithuania (43,065), Syria (42,040) and Sweden (37,732) - Statistics Norway. Calls from Norwegian mobiles to Warsaw, Kyiv, Vilnius and Stockholm follow directly from that.
Inside Norway there is no long-distance prefix at all. An Oslo phone reaches Bergen, Tromsø or Longyearbyen with the same eight digits used from anywhere else, because Svalbard's numbers sit inside the Norwegian plan with the leading digits 79 - Wikipedia. The only prefix a Norwegian ever adds is 00 (or +) for abroad, and five-digit service numbers are dialed just as they are printed.
Dial the US exit code 011, or type + on a mobile or in a browser dialer.
Dial Norway's country code, 47.
Dial all eight digits exactly as written, with nothing added and nothing taken away: the mobile 40 61 23 45 becomes 011 47 40 61 23 45, or +47 40 61 23 45.
For a five-digit service number such as 02323, dial it with its leading 0 intact: +47 02323.
For Svalbard, dial the same way: +47 followed by the eight-digit number starting 79, for example +47 79 02 33 00.
Norway has no trunk prefix: numbers are dialed after +47 exactly as they are written in Norway - Wikipedia. Mobiles and fixed numbers are both 8 digits after +47, and a first digit of 4 or 9 means a mobile. The only ordinary numbers that begin with 0 are the five-digit service numbers from 02000 to 09999, where the 0 belongs to the number - Lovdata. 800 numbers are free for callers inside Norway, so from abroad use an organization's ordinary eight-digit number. The emergency numbers 110 (fire), 112 (police) and 113 (ambulance) are for use inside Norway.
Norway filters calls that pretend to be Norwegian. Norway was one of the first countries in Europe to regulate operators' duty to block spoofed calls, and by late 2022 the network filtering at Telenor, Telia, Ice and others was stopping over a million fraud attempts a month, with the industry also blocking calls from abroad that display Norwegian fixed-line numbers - Nkom. Since 2024 the mobile operators exchange information so they can block hijacked mobile numbers regardless of which network the number belongs to, and spoofing of Norwegian numbers has fallen sharply - Nkom. A genuine US caller ID is not what these filters target, but any service that calls from abroad while displaying a Norwegian number risks being stopped.
The landline has almost disappeared. Telenor switched off Norway's copper telephone network at the end of 2022 - Wikipedia, and at the end of 2025 the whole country had only about 62,900 fixed telephony subscriptions, roughly half of them private - Nkom. An old home number for a grandparent in Bodø or Ålesund has probably been cancelled; ask for the mobile.
Old phones are losing their network. Telia shut down its 2G network in 2025 and Telenor will close its 2G network on 31 December 2027; after that, any device that makes voice calls needs 4G calling (VoLTE), and older phones without 4G as well as some safety alarms are affected - Nkom. If an elderly relative's basic phone suddenly stops ringing, an outdated handset is a likelier culprit than your dialing.
A number no longer tells you where someone is. Since 1 January 2020 Norwegian fixed numbers are officially no longer geographic: calls are routed on the whole number or an IP address, and people can keep their number when they move to another county - Nkom. A number starting 22 may be an Oslo office or an internet phone line anywhere in the country. That rarely matters for timing, because mainland Norway has a single time zone.
On 28 January 1993 Norway adopted a closed numbering plan: every ordinary number became eight digits with the old area code built in, and Oslo numbers were given the leading digits 22. Before that, Oslo was dialed with (02) and a small town such as Larvik with (034) - Wikipedia. GSM mobile service arrived the same year, and mobile numbers have started with 4 or 9 ever since. There is no trunk prefix at all, so what you see written in Norway is exactly what you dial after +47.
The first digit still tells you the number type. The national numbering regulation reserves 40 00 00 00 to 49 99 99 99 and 90 00 00 00 to 99 99 99 99 for mobiles; blocks starting 2, 3, 50 to 57, 6 and 7 for fixed-network numbers; 800 00 000 to 899 99 999 for special numbers; and 59 and 58 for machine-to-machine lines of eight and twelve digits - Lovdata.
The way the digits are grouped changed in 2019: Nkom now writes both mobile and fixed numbers in pairs (90 00 00 00), while special numbers beginning with 8 keep a 3-2-3 grouping (800 12 345) because the first three digits signal the service type - Nkom. Many Norwegians still write mobiles as 412 34 567. Either way it is the same eight digits.
Norway also has five-digit special numbers from 02000 to 09999, long used for customer service; after a 2019 rule change Nkom said businesses and public agencies could again use them for customer contact - Nkom. Oslo Taxi's 02323 is a typical example - Oslo Taxi. Here the leading 0 belongs to the number itself rather than being a trunk prefix, and from outside Norway these numbers are written +47 0xxxx, so Oslo Taxi becomes +47 02323 - Wikipedia. Keep the 0.
The eight-digit service ranges start with 8 and use the 3-2-3 grouping. 800 numbers are free for callers in Norway, 820 and 829 are for services charged to the caller's phone bill, and 822 numbers are donation lines - Nkom. For call centres, Nkom points to five-digit numbers or the 815 range - Nkom.
All of these are built around callers inside Norway. From the US, the dependable route to a Norwegian bank, airline or public office is its ordinary eight-digit number; try a five-digit or 8xx line only when no regular number is published, and do not expect a freephone number to be free from abroad.
Svalbard, the Arctic archipelago that is part of the Kingdom of Norway, has no country code of its own. It uses Norway's +47, with numbers in the 79 range written +47 79 xx xx xx, and within that range Telenor's block runs from 79 01 00 00 to 79 02 99 99 - Wikipedia. The University Centre in Svalbard in Longyearbyen, for example, publishes +47 79 02 33 00, with phones answered on weekdays - UNIS. From the US you dial it as 011 47 79 02 33 00, exactly like a mainland number.
Svalbard and Jan Mayen also keep mainland Norwegian time - Wikipedia, so the same 6-hour gap from US Eastern applies even in the high Arctic. Families of students, researchers and seasonal tourism workers in Longyearbyen therefore dial the same way and at the same hours as for anyone in Oslo.
Three groups dominate Norwegian mobile service. At the end of 2025 Telenor had 40.4% of mobile subscriptions, Telia 32.8% and Lyse 17.1%, together 90.4% of the market - Nkom. Lyse is the group that bought the mobile operator Ice in 2022, so a relative who says they are with Ice is counted under Lyse - Nkom.
For a caller abroad, none of this affects how you dial: a Telenor, Telia or Ice number is the same eight digits after +47. What it does explain is why landlines are no longer the default. With nearly the whole population on mobile plans from these three networks, and Telenor's copper network gone, a Norwegian's mobile is, for most people, the only phone number they have.
Norway's public holidays cluster around Easter: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday are all holidays by law, alongside Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day - Lovdata. With the weekend that makes a five-day break; in 2026 it ran from Thursday 2 April to Monday 6 April, a poor window for reaching any business but a good one for catching family.
Summer is the other long pause. Norwegian holiday law lets employees demand a main holiday of 18 weekdays, three full weeks, between 1 June and 30 September - Lovdata. With so many people off in the same months, business calls in the height of summer are the ones most likely to meet an out-of-office reply, so aim for spring or the end of August. Personal calls in July may reach someone at a cabin, which is one more reason to dial the mobile rather than a home number.
Norway's code is +47, and there is nothing to drop. Norway has used a closed plan of eight-digit numbers with no trunk prefix since 28 January 1993, so you dial +47 and then the number exactly as written: 40 61 23 45 becomes +47 40 61 23 45, or 011 47 40 61 23 45 from a US landline - Wikipedia.
No. Before 1993 Oslo numbers were dialed with the area code (02) and a town such as Larvik used (034); the closed plan folded those codes into eight-digit numbers, giving Oslo its familiar 22 start - Wikipedia. Since 1 January 2020 fixed numbers are not tied to a region at all, and people can keep their number when they move to another county - Nkom. You always dial all eight digits.
Look at the first digit: 4 or 9 means a mobile - Nkom. Fixed-network numbers start with 2, 3, 5 (50 to 57), 6 or 7, numbers beginning with 8 are special services such as 800 freephone, and 58 and 59 are machine-to-machine lines - Lovdata. With so few landlines left, the number you are given for a person is almost always a mobile.
Svalbard uses Norway's code, so dial 011 47 (or +47) and the eight-digit number, which starts with 79: the University Centre in Svalbard, for example, is +47 79 02 33 00 - UNIS. There is no separate country code and no extra prefix. Svalbard also keeps mainland Norwegian time, 6 hours ahead of US Eastern for most of the year.
Norway is 6 hours ahead of US Eastern and 9 hours ahead of US Pacific most of the year. Norway has followed the EU's clock-change dates since 1996 - Wikipedia, so from 8 to 28 March 2026 and 25 to 31 October 2026, when the US is on daylight time and Europe is not, the gap is 5 and 8 hours. Calling 8am to 2pm ET reaches Norwegians in their afternoon or early evening.
Numbers from 02000 to 09999 are five-digit special numbers, widely used by companies for customer service; Oslo Taxi's 02323 is one. The leading 0 is part of the number, so the international form is +47 02323 - Wikipedia. If a five-digit or 800 number will not connect from abroad, call the organization's regular eight-digit number instead.
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