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International telephone access code

ISO 3166 country codes

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GRC Country Code

   1.234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and . the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 24th June 2021

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The official language is Spanish , spoken by 97% of the population. There are 39 other spoken languages, many Indian languages spoken in the interior. The most widely spoken of these is Wayuu (170 000 speakers).

The abbreviation used for Señorita in Venezuela is Srta.

Each person usually has a given name followed by two family names, that of the father followed by that of the mother, for example:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez

Upon marriage, females may take their husband’s name as a further given name, in this way:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez de Lopez

where the de indicates “(wife) of”. De usually indicates a married female, but may also be part of a name.

Professional people are often referred to by their qualification, followed by the given name and paternal family name (and sometimes the maternal family name):

Doctor (m) / Doctora (f) (Dr/Dra)	Doctor/Ph.D.
Ingeniero (m) / Ingeniera (f) (Ing.)	Engineer
Licenciado (m) / Licenciada (f) (Lic.)	Holder of a university degree
Profesor (Prof.)	Professor, higher education teachers

This is not preceded by the gender form of address.

   Tables of names can be acquired: given names , surnames/family names , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles 

   Note: This section last updated 19th December 2011

The following company type may be found:

   S.A.C.A. - Sociedades anónimas de capital autorizado - Closed stock Corporation            
   S.A.I.C.A. – Sociedad Anónima Inscrita de Capital Abierto – Open capital company

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 21st December 2019

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The name of the administrative region may appear after the postal code or on the line above the postal code. This is the case in the example with the abbreviation D.F. (Distrito Federal). R.C. in the second example indicates a route carrier number.

The administrative regions are:

    Amazonas 
    Anzoátegui 
    Apure 
    Aragua 
    Barinas 
    Bolívar 
    Carabobo 
    Cojedes 
    Delta Amacuro 
    Dependencia Federal 
    Distrito Federal 
    Falcón 
    Guárico 
    La Guaira     
    Lara 
    Mérida 
    Miranda 
    Monagas 
    Nueva Esparta 
    Portuguesa 
    Sucre 
    Táchira 
    Trujillo 
    Yaracuy 
    Zulia 

When addresses are written in Spanish, calle, the Spanish word for street, is rarely written. The Spanish thoroughfare type, when included, is written before, and separately from, the thoroughfare name. It should be written with the first letter in lower case.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

The word for post office box is Apartado or Apdo. Apartado Postal is also found.

These consist of a block of 4 digits written after the settlement name. Codes commence with the number in the range 1-8. The first two digits refer to the region, the final two to the delivery office. Post office box addresses in Caracas sometimes include a letter in the code, written in this format:

   9999[-]A

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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   Note: This section last updated 17th September 2017

Refer to Exonyms in Venezuela for full lists of place names in Venezuela in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

One of the 23 state names (estados , singular - estado) may be found in addresses. Please see the section on ‘Example address format’. Venezuela also has a federal district (distrito federal) and a federal dependency (dependencia federal) consisting of 11 federally controlled island groups with a total of 72 individual islands.

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   Note: This section last updated 24th May 2011

All Venezuelan area codes have 3 digits when dialled from abroad. Subscriber numbers have 7 digits. Mobile area codes are 412, 414-416, 424, 426.