Seychelles

The country calling code for Seychelles is +248. 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 Seychelles number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Seychelles is assigned SC as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and SYC 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 Seychelles is .sc. 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 Seychelles is the Seychellois rupee, with the ISO 4217 code SCR and the symbol ₨. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Seychelles are quoted in SCR. 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 Seychelles is +04:00, currently UTC+04:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Seychelles is Victoria. Seychelles sits in Africa, specifically the Eastern Africa subregion. Its approximate centre point is -4.58333333, 55.66666666. Traffic in Seychelles drives on the left. Languages recorded for Seychelles: French, English.

No land borders are recorded for Seychelles in this dataset, which is typical of island states and territories. The nearby page still ranks the closest countries by straight-line distance.