South Africa (+27 / 0027): 9 digits
Locals write 071 123 4567. An API wants +27711234567. Paste any South Africa number below to see it normalised, validated, and identified.
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How South Africa numbers are written
- Country calling code
- +27
- Dialled from abroad
- 0027 (011 27 from the US and Canada)
- ISO country code
- ZA
- National number length
- 9 digits
- Trunk prefix
- 0 (dropped in E.164)
- Written locally
- 071 123 4567
- E.164 format
- +27711234567
What +27 means
+27 is the country calling code for South Africa. The same code is written 0027 when you dial out from most of Europe, Africa and Asia, and 011 27 from the US and Canada. All three reach the same place: only the exit code in front of it changes. Whichever one you use, the national trunk 0 is dropped once the country code is in front.
Mobile numbers
Mobiles typically start with 6, 7 or 8 (written 0xx nationally).
Converting to E.164
Take the number as written locally (071 123 4567), drop the leading 0, then prefix +27. The result is +27711234567: no spaces, no dashes, no parentheses. Store that, and format for display only when you show it to a human.
Why not do it with a regex
A pattern that matches South Africa numbers today breaks the moment a new mobile range is allocated, and it cannot tell you whether the number is actually assigned. The tool above runs the same numbering-plan engine as our phone validation API, so it also reports line type and region rather than just shape.
That is how a South Africa number is written. Whether a whole list is worth dialling is the free call list cleaner, or check one number on the spam phone checker.