Telephone numbers in Curaçao and the Caribbean Netherlands


599 was assigned to the Netherlands Antilles, and is in use by Curaçao and the Caribbean Netherlands.
Aruba and Sint Maarten, also former parts of the Netherlands Antilles, discontinued using the code in 1986 and 2011 respectively. Aruba uses country code 297, and Sint Maarten joined the North American Numbering Plan with area code 721.
The International call prefix is 00.

Area codes

Originally each island had an area code with the length of the local numbering varying from island to island. Beginning in 1999, the numbers were modified so that each local number was seven digits long. This change left the islands without any area codes, except for Curaçao, which has the area code of 9 along with the seven digit local number.

Sint Maarten joined NANP

On September 30, 2009, the North American Numbering Plan Administration approved the request of Sint Maarten's government to join the NANP with area code 721. Effective 30 September 2011, Sint Maarten's country code changed to the NANP code of 1. A permissive dialing period of one full year was in place when dialing or country code 599 could be used.

Historic list of area codes and number ranges

IslandNumber range
Bonaire7xx xxxx
717 xxxx
750 xxxx
700 xxxx
701 xxxx
795 xxxx
796 5xxx
Curaçao
9 4xx xxxx
9 5xx xxxx
9 6xx xxxx
9 7xx xxxx
9 8xx xxxx
Sint Maarten 5xx xxxx
Saba416xxxx
Sint Eustatius3xx xxxx
Aruba 8xx xxxx
Non-geographic1xx xxxx
6xx xxxx