My friend gave me the following phone # to call her in Bahrain: 0110739083669.

I'm in Germany..... what # do I dial?

Dear shedberg,

I am absolutely sure that you are the victim of a typing / writing
error. Splitting up the phone number your friend gave you, we get the
following elements:

011073 - country code for calling Bahrain from the USA
083669 - the subscriber's number; Bahrain phone numbers always have
six digits.

However, the three last digits of the Bahrain country code - which are
always the static part of the international dialing code - are
definitely not 073, but 973.

When calling Bahrain from Germany, use the following country code:
00973.

I assume that the six digits of your friend's direct dial number are
correct, though I do not know if the Bahrain telephone system allows
phone numbers starting with a Zero.

Area codes are not used in Bahrain, so there is nothing missing
between the country code and the subscriber's number.

So, when calling your friend in Bahrain from Germany, please dial the
following phone number: 00973 083669.

Sources:

Laendervowahl.de - Weltweite Ländervorwahlen (German country code
directory)
http://www.laendervorwahl.de/

Arab Area Codes, Bahrain, by the Arab American Chamber of Commerce
http://www.arabchamber.com/phone/bahrain.htm

International Dialing Codes, by Steve Kropla, 2002
http://kropla.com/dialcode.htm

Search terms used:
ländervorwahlen: ://www.google.com/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=l%C3%A4ndervorwahlen&lr=
bahrain "area codes":
://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=bahrain+%22area+codes%22&meta=

Hope this helps!
Regards,
Scriptor

Hi... I would've answered your questions, but I got carried away
answering and I lost my lock on the question :(
Here's my answer anyway. It will confirm the answer posted by
scriptor-ga.


Hi,

I'm sorry to announce you this, but all the info I found leads to the
conclusion that the number you were given is not a Bahrain phone
number.

The "011" in front of the number tells you that the number is
"complete". You can use it directly to call that person.  But from
certain countries only! The "011" that is used in some countries to
make an international phone call is actually "00" for Germany.

So, if you want to call your friend and 011-0739083669 doesn't work,
you should call (most likely)  00-0739083669 instead of
011-0739083669. It might be also 00-739083669. Sorry, but i had to
tell you all the options here!

0739083669 is the actual phone number. It includes the country code
(7) plus a regional "selector", plus the phone number of the person
you want to dial.

Here's the "strange" part. If you were to call to Bahrain the number
should've been something like 00 + 973 + XXXXXX, where XXXXXX is a six
digits number, the phone number of the person to contact.

There's no "region" in Bahrain for as much as phone numbers are
concerned because there's no need for them. There are only about
150,000 phone numbers in all Bahrain so six digits are enough.

The phone number you were given seems to be a Russian number!

At least that's what I found by using the "FoneFinder" tool provided
by Primeris. You can find it (and use it for free) at
http://primeris.com/fonefind.

Search for the international number that you were given and you'll
find it to be Russian. Search for "Bahrain" (without the quotes of
course) and you'll find that the phone country code of Bahrain is 973,
a number that doesn't appear in the number that we're investigating.

Now, as we cannot trust the first source that comes our way, I
searched for back-up information too.

And I found it at WhitePagesOnline. They provide a free and intuitive
tool that helps people place international phone calls correctly.The
tool is located at http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/search/time.html

Another good page to visit is http://kropla.com/dialcode.htm provided
by Steve Kropla's site. There you can learn what international numbers
are composed of and a big list (slow download - be patient) of phone
number codes for most countries of the world.

Some other places that prove the fact that Bahrain uses 973-XXXXXX
numbers are:

Tour to Bahrain Island of golden smile - hotels and restaurants
http://www.tour2bahrain.com/yellow-h.htm - note that all phone numbers
have six digits

Arab.net - Bahrain - Tour guide
http://www.arab.net/bahrain/tour/bn_comms.html - they also confirm the
973-xxxxxx format

TravelWizard.com - Bahrain -Overview
http://www.middleeastvacationguide.com/travel/Bahrain_Overview.html -
go to the end of the page at the Registration/Embassy location and
look at those phone numbers; they have the 973-xxxxxx format too


Here's a page that was very useful to me: Telephone Directories on the
Web - Other resources - Area codes -
http://www.teldir.com/eng/more/codes

Search terms used: 

phone Bahrain
international phone numbers
how to phone in a foreign country

A conclusion: the number you were given seems to be complete - it has
the format of an international phone number. But it's not a Bahrain
number. I'd say over 99% that it is Russian.

If you need clarifications, please ask. I will reply as soon as
possible.

Happy to be of help,

ldcdc-ga

PS.  Just before posting the answer I stopped to think for a while. I
didn't offer a solution to your problem and I thought: What if the
number is slighly wrong? And I looked at it for a second. Then it hit
me! 011-0-739 .... what if it is 011-0-973? ... (here I remembered
about the lock  and...) ... anyway  ... the right number would be 00
973 083669...

That's it!

Good luck contacting your friend!

Dear ldcdc,

It's very sad that you have lost your lock on the question after you
had prepared such a fine, comprehensive answer. According to what you
were ready to post, you are a great researcher. Please don't be
discouraged now; stay with us, for providing further fantastic answers
in the future.

Good luck and best greetings,
Scriptor

Thank you for your nice words Scriptor.
They were really appreciated.
Good luck!

ldcdc-ga