Ten-year-old from Thiruvananthapuram takes the Guinness record for most country calling codes in a minute

1 November 2026

Guinness World Records lists S Nakshatra of India as the holder of the record for the most country calling codes identified in one minute, with 87 codes. The record was set on 20 April 2026 at Kadakkal in Kollam. She is ten years old, from Thiruvananthapuram, and studies in the fifth grade at Greenvalley International School, Peyad. The mark she beat stood at 77 codes and was held by a Malayali living in the United Kingdom. Senior IPS officer P. Vijayan handed her the Guinness World Record certificate. A country calling code is the number dialled before a national telephone number to reach that country.