The area codes in Pakistan consists of two to five digits; generally smaller the city, longer the prefix.
All large cities have two-digit codes.
Azad Kashmir telephone lines contain five digits.
This was accomplished by adding 9 to the beginning of all phone numbers that started with a 9 i.e. government and semi-government lines and adding 3 to all other lines.
[1][2][clarification needed] The following is the list of dialling codes for various cities and districts in Pakistan.