Call France

Talk360 is the best international calling app for making reliable international or local calls to any feature phone or smartphone across the world. With the Talk360 app, you can call any landline or mobile number in France. What’s great about that? Only the dialer needs to have the Talk360 calling app on their phone. The receiver of the phone call doesn’t notice that you are communicating via an application. Calling friends, family, clients, or business relations in France with the Talk360 app is simple & saves you a lot of money.

In this guide, we introduce you to informative tips on how to call France with Talk360, the benefits of our app, why it’s different from other calling solutions, & lastly, we give you the fun facts about this great country.

Let’s get into it!

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staying in contact with loved ones abroad leads to high call prices & confusing calling criteria. Now, Talk360 makes calling France easier & cost-effective. With Talk360, you can call France at affordable per-minute rates.

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

• first dial 011, the U.S. exit code;
• next dial 33, the country code for France;
• 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 you’re calling France from any country in the world, you simply need to perform the following:

• place 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 France. It’s usually a simple area or a city;
• local number: The local number you would like to call.

Here is a list of the most populated area codes and town calling codes in France:

Click to expand the list with area codes

Area code	Location
Ajaccio	4
Angers	2
Bastia	4
Besançon	3
Bordeaux	5
Brest	2
Caen	2
Clermont Ferrand	4
Dijon	3
Grenoble	4
Istres	4
Le Havre	2
Le Mans	2
Lens	3
Lille	3
Limoges	5
Lyon	4
Macon	478
Marseille	4
Montpellier	4
Mulhouse	3
Nancy	3
Nantes	2
Nice	4
Nimes	4
Orleans	2
Paris	1
Perpignan	4
Reims	3
Rennes	2
Rouen	2
Saint Denis	1
Saint Etienne Du Rouvray	4
Strasbourg	3
Toulon	4
Toulouse	5
Tours	2
Versailles	859
Villeurbanne	4

You now understand how to call France. With Talk360, you simply have to buy credit and enter the mobile number you want to communicate with.

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• France is the largest country in the EU and sometimes called the hexagon
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• France is the world’s most popular tourist destination
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• French was the official language of England for about 300 years
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• Louis XIX was the king of France for just 20 minutes, the shortest ever reign
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• ‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité‘ or ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’ is the national motto
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• The French invented tin cans, the hairdryer, and the hot air balloon
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• France was the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away food
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• The first public screening of a movie was by the French Lumière in 1895
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• The oldest person who ever lived was a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment
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• France has more Nobel Prize winners in Literature than any other country
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• Europe’s highest mountain is Mont Blanc in the French Alps
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• The world’s first artificial heart transplant and face transplant both took place in France
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• The Louvre is the most visited museum in the world
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• French gastronomy was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status in 2010
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• France produced the most expensive bottle of wine in the world
  A 73-year-old bottle of French Burgundy became the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold at auction, fetching an eye-popping $558,000.
  
• You might get a ‘fish’ stuck on your back on April Fool’s Day
  Now, here’s a whacky fact about France. If you happen to be in the country on 1 April, don’t be surprised if children try to stick paper fish to your back and call you a ‘Poisson d’Avril’ (April Fish). This tradition is supposed to have started in the 16th century when King Charles XIV of France changed the calendar and those who continued to celebrate the end of the New Year at the end of March were ridiculed as fools. So watch your back!
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• The French eat around 30,000 tons of snails a year
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• Live snails must have a ticket to ride high-speed trains
  No, we’re not making this up – we promise! According to French law, it is against the law to carry live snails on a high-speed train in France without them having their own tickets. In fact, any domesticated animal under 5kg must be a paying passenger. In 2008, a Frenchman was actually fined when a ticket inspector caught him carrying the critters on board a TGV. Luckily, though, France’s state-owned rail company SNCF ended up waving the fine.
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• The croissant was actually invented in Austria in the 13th century
  That’s right, believe it or not, the beloved French pastry that we all know and love is actually an adaptation of a kipferl; a Viennese specialty that dates back to the 13th century. As the story goes, Austrian artillery officer, August Zang, founded a Viennese bakery in Paris in 1839. He began serving the kipferl and it quickly became popular with the locals. So much so, in fact, that French imitators began creating their own French version which they called the croissant due to its crescent shape. And the rest, as they say, is history. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, after all.