Telephone numbers in Kazakhstan


Telephone numbers in Kazakhstan are regulated by the Telecommunications Committee of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations, and Aerospace Industry in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and administered by telecommunication providers, such as Kazakhtelecom, a state-backed and the largest national operator.
Kazakhstan shares country code 7 with Russia since its independence in 1991. In 2021, ITU reserved the code 997 for Kazakhstan. While the country planned to activate it by January 2023, it was decided to keep country code 7.

Country code

Kazakhstan is a member of the International Telecommunication Union, and has been using the ITU-assigned country code 7 jointly with Russia in an integrated numbering plan since the breakup of the Soviet Union. In 2021, ITU reserved country code 997 for Kazakhstan, which the government planned to activate on 1 January 2023 with a two-year period of permissive dialling for the former code 7. The plan was abandoned, in November 2023, when it was reported that Kazakhstan instead had been working on a new code-sharing agreement with Russia.

Numbering plan

Under an agreement with Russia signed on 11 June 2006, Kazakhstan was assigned zone codes 6xx and 7xx in the integrated numbering plan with ITU country code 7.

Geographical numbers

Geographical telephone numbers in Kazakhstan consist of ten digits:
  • zone code: the leading three digits
  • area code: the following one or two digits
  • subscriber number: the last six or five digits, depending on the length of the area code.
Geographic numbers use zone codes in the range from 710 to 729. Prior to the 2006 agreement, landlines used zone codes in the 3xx range; as zone codes 3xx were assigned to Russia, zone codes in Kazakhstan were changed by substituting the leading 3 with 7 in mid-2007.
Area codeRegion
710Karaganda Region
711West Kazakhstan Region
712Atyrau Region
713Aktobe Region
714Kostanay Region
715North Kazakhstan Region
716Akmola Region
717Astana
718Pavlodar Region
721Karaganda Region
722East Kazakhstan Region
723East Kazakhstan Region
724Kyzylorda Region
725Shymkent
725Turkistan Region
726Jambyl Region
727Almaty
727Almaty Region
728Almaty Region
729Mangystau Region

Non-geographical numbers

Non-geographical numbers start with 75x or 76x.

Mobile numbers

Mobile numbers have 10 digits starting with 70x or 77x.

Dialling procedures

Local and national dialling

Calls within a single area code can be made by dialling the seven-digit subscriber number alone. For long-distance calls, callers from landline numbers dial the long-distance prefix 8, wait for a tone, and then dial the zone code and number. Modern exchanges no longer require waiting for the tone, nor does mobile telephony where the long-distance prefix is not required.

International dialling

The international dialling prefix is 8~10 – callers dial 8, wait for a tone, and then dial 10 immediately followed by the country code and the remainder of the number. Modern exchanges no longer require waiting for the tone.