• Area Code: 2 digits (formerly 3-5 digits)
• Subscriber Number: 7 digits (formerly 5-7 digits)

Area Code List

• Uzbekistan [announced by ITU; service dates unknown]

• from 1 October 1998 - new country code 998 in service
  • Country code 998 for calls to Uzbekistan became effective after 1 October 1998 (from some areas, the effective date was 1 January 1999). Permissive dialling was in effect with either +7 or +998 until 31 December 1998, 1 January 1999, 1 March 1999 or 1 June 1999, depending on the source of information (or depending on timetables of individual communications carriers).
  • In most cases, old Uzbekistan numbers of +7 3xx format became +998 xx (except Naval/Navoi, which changed from +7 436 to +998 79).
  • 6-digit subscriber numbers in Tashkent (+7 371 changed to +998 71) were converted to 7-digit numbers by adding the digit '2' beforehand. 7-digit Tashkent subscriber numbers were kept as is.
  • Numbering was formerly consistent with the ex-USSR system, where sum of Area Code plus Subscriber Number tended to be 10 digits.
• Uzbekistan was assigned country code 998 and is presumably departing from country code 7 (former USSR numbering plan) on some unknown date.