Call Germany

Keeping in contact with colleagues who are in a different country leads to high call prices & difficult to understand calling criteria. To solve this, Talk360 makes calling Germany simple & affordable. With the Talk360 calling app, you can call Germany at affordable per-minute prices.

To call a fixed line in Germany from the United States, simply follow these easy to follow dialing tips:

• first dial 011, the U.S. exit code;
• next dial 49, the country code for Germany;
• then dial the area code (1-2 digits. See a sample calling code list below);
• and finally, dial the phone number (5–7 digits).

If calling Germany from anywhere in the world, you simply need to perform the following:

• enter the exit code: It’s also referred to as the IDD code (International Direct Dialing) or ISD code (International Subscriber Dialing). For most countries, it’s 00 or +. For the USA and Canada, it’s 011;
• phone code: Each country is assigned a unique dialing code;
• area code: This is the code for a part of Germany. It’s generally a general area or a city;
• local number: The local number you would like to dial.

Here is a list of the largest area codes and city calling codes in Germany:

You’ve now learned how to dial Germany. With Talk360, you only have to buy airtime and enter the mobile number you want to communicate with.

• In Germany we have 1,500 different types of beer, 300 types of bread and 1,000 types of sausage
• In the state of Bavaria, beer is actually considered a food!
• Germany is home to the biggest Beer Festival in the world, Oktoberfest in Munich , where the standard glass of beer is a whole litre!
• If you want to order 1 beer in Germany, you show your thumb and for 2 beers you show your first finger
• More than 800 million currywurst sausages are eaten every year in Germany. The snack is so popular that there’s even a museum dedicated to it in Berlin
• Germany is the second largest beer consumer in Europe - we usually drink around 2.55 billion gallons of it a year
• German is the most popular third language that’s taught in the world.
• German is the most common native language in Europe and is 11th on the list of most widely-spoken languages in the world
• The Germans are very protective of their language so most movies are dubbed into German using local actors - this has made dubbing a 115 million Euro industry
• In the German language there are three genders - the third being ‘neuter’
• The German languages shares 60% of it’s vocabulary with English
• German is also the official language in Austria and Liechtenstein and one of the official languages in Switzerland and Luxembourg
• You can find over 2100 castles throughout the country
• You can find Europe’s largest train station in Berlin
• 65% of the highways in Germany have no speed limit and are called the Autobahn
• Germany sells around 6 million cars a year , making it one of the largest car producers in the world
• Germany has more zoos than any other country , we have over 400
• When visiting Berlin, JFK famously said “Ich bin ein Berliner” which actually means “I am a jelly donut.”
• Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft is the longest word to be published - it’s 79 letters long!
• The tradition of having a Christmas tree was started in Germany
• Germany is the largest economy in the EU , with a gross domestic product (GDP) of 3.73 trillion USD - which is also the 4th highest in the world

Source:

cbs.de/en/blog/facts-about-germany/