Lao People's Democratic Republic

The country calling code for Lao People's Democratic Republic is +856. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Lao People's Democratic Republic number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Lao People's Democratic Republic is assigned LA as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and LAO as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Lao People's Democratic Republic is .la. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Lao People's Democratic Republic is the Lao kip, with the ISO 4217 code LAK and the symbol ₭. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Lao People's Democratic Republic are quoted in LAK. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Lao People's Democratic Republic is +07:00, currently UTC+07:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Lao People's Democratic Republic is Vientiane. Lao People's Democratic Republic sits in Asia, specifically the South-Eastern Asia subregion. Its approximate centre point is 18.00000000, 105.00000000. Traffic in Lao People's Democratic Republic drives on the right. Languages recorded for Lao People's Democratic Republic: Lao.

Lao People's Democratic Republic shares a land border with 5 countries: Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Thailand and Vietnam. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.