Malawi

The country calling code for Malawi is +265. 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 Malawi number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Malawi is assigned MW as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and MWI 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 Malawi is .mw. 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 Malawi is the Malawian kwacha, with the ISO 4217 code MWK and the symbol MK. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Malawi are quoted in MWK. 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 Malawi is +02:00, currently UTC+02:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Malawi is Lilongwe. Malawi sits in Africa, specifically the Eastern Africa subregion. Its approximate centre point is -13.50000000, 34.00000000. Traffic in Malawi drives on the left. Languages recorded for Malawi: English, Chichewa.

Malawi shares a land border with 3 countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, United Republic of and Zambia. 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.