| There are two essential aspects to take note of. At | | | | Micronesia (Federal States of) 120V 60 Hz |
| the first instance, it is important to note that the | | | | Monaco 127/220V 50 Hz |
| electrical power specifications may vary from country | | | | Mongolia 230V |
| to country that you are visiting. Not many countries | | | | Montserrat (Leeward Is.) 230V 60 Hz |
| have a electrical power specification as you have at | | | | Morocco 127/220V* 50 Hz |
| home, and hence you should have the right adapter | | | | Mozambique 220V 50 Hz |
| with you when you travel abroad. Secondly, the kind of | | | | Myanmar (formerly Burma) 230V 50 Hz |
| wall mounted power outlet sockets in most of the | | | | Namibia 220V 50 Hz |
| countries, are not usually the ones that you find at | | | | Nauru 240V 50 Hz |
| home. It is entirely different, and your device power | | | | Nepal 230V 50 Hz |
| input plug may not fit into that socket at all. | | | | Netherlands 230V 50 Hz |
| The mains power voltage specifications differ from | | | | Netherlands Antilles 127/220V* 50 Hz |
| country to country. For example, the electrical and | | | | New Caledonia 220V 50 Hz |
| electronic devices in U.S. operate on 120 Volts AC, but | | | | New Zealand 230V 50 Hz |
| the United Kingdom has a 220 volts AC outlet, which is | | | | Nicaragua 120V 60 Hz |
| different from the one in the United States. Secondly, | | | | Niger 220V 50 Hz |
| your device power input plug will never fit the power | | | | Nigeria 240V 50 Hz |
| outlet sockets available in the United Kingdom. | | | | Northern Ireland (see United Kingdom) |
| Therefore, if you are traveling from home to the United | | | | Norway 230V 50 Hz |
| Kingdom, you do not only need an adapter for your | | | | Okinawa 100V* 60 Hz |
| device power input plug, but a voltage converter as | | | | Oman 240V* 50 Hz |
| well, of the type which would convert the 220 Volts | | | | Pakistan 230V 50 Hz |
| AC electrical power output to 110 Volts AC for your | | | | Palmyra Atoll 120V 60Hz |
| device to work properly. | | | | Panama 110V* 60 Hz |
| It is recommended that, when-ever you plan your next | | | | Papua New Guinea 240V 50 Hz |
| visit abroad, take a look at the guide of the power | | | | Paraguay 220V 50 Hz |
| outlet specifications available in the country or countries | | | | Peru 220V* 60 Hz* |
| that you are visiting and prepare yourself to carry | | | | Philippines 220V 60 Hz |
| appropriate electrical accessories for those devices to | | | | Poland 230V 50 Hz |
| work properly. There are indeed universal plug | | | | Portugal 230V 50 Hz |
| adapters available, which will comply with the power | | | | Puerto Rico 120V 60 Hz |
| out input sockets of many countries, but the need of | | | | Qatar 240V 50 Hz |
| voltage converters cannot be ignored | | | | Réunion Island 220V 50Hz |
| A guide to international electric outlet specification is | | | | Romania 230V 50 Hz |
| presented below: | | | | Russian Federation 220V 50 Hz |
| COUNTRY VOLTAGE FREQUENCY | | | | Rwanda 230V 50 Hz |
| Afghanistan 220V 50 Hz | | | | St. Kitts and Nevis (Leeward Is.) 230V 60 Hz |
| Albania 20V* 50 Hz | | | | St. Lucia (Windward Is.) 240V 50 Hz |
| Algeria 230V 50 Hz | | | | St. Vincent (Windward Is.) 230V 50 Hz |
| American Samoa 120V 60 Hz | | | | Saudi Arabia 127/220V 60 Hz |
| Andorra 230V 50Hz | | | | Scotland (See United Kingdom) |
| Angola 220V 50 Hz | | | | Senegal 230V 50 Hz |
| Anguilla 110V 60Hz | | | | Serbia-Montenegro 220V 50 Hz |
| Antigua 230V* 60 Hz | | | | Seychelles 240V 50 Hz |
| Argentina 220V 50 Hz | | | | Sierra Leone 230V 50 Hz |
| Armenia 220V 50 Hz | | | | Singapore 230V 50 Hz |
| Aruba 127V* 60 Hz Australia 230V* 50 Hz | | | | Slovak Republic 230V 50 Hz |
| Austria 230V 50 Hz | | | | Slovenia 220V 50 Hz |
| Azerbaijan 220V 50 Hz | | | | Somalia 220V* 50 Hz |
| Azores 220V* 50 Hz | | | | South Africa 220/230V* 50 Hz |
| Bahamas 120V 60 Hz | | | | Spain 230V 50 Hz |
| Bahrain 230V* 50 Hz* | | | | Sri Lanka 230V 50 Hz |
| Balearic Islands 220V 50 Hz | | | | Sudan 230V 50 Hz |
| Bangladesh 220V 50 Hz | | | | Suriname 127V 60 Hz |
| Barbados 115V 50 Hz | | | | Swaziland 230V 50 Hz |
| Belarus 220V 50 Hz | | | | Sweden 230V 50 Hz |
| Belgium 230V 50 Hz | | | | Switzerland 230V 50 Hz |
| Belize 110/220V 60 Hz | | | | Syria 220V 50 Hz |
| Benin 220V 50 Hz | | | | Tahiti 110/220V 60 Hz |
| Bermuda 120V 60 Hz | | | | Tajikistan 220V 50 Hz |
| Bhutan 230V 50 Hz | | | | Taiwan 110V 60 Hz |
| Bolivia 220/230V* 50 Hz | | | | Tanzania 230V 50 Hz |
| Bosnia 220V 50 Hz | | | | Thailand 220V 50 Hz |
| Botswana 231V 50 Hz | | | | Togo 220V* 50 Hz |
| Brazil 110/220V* 60 Hz | | | | Tonga 240V 50 Hz |
| Brunei 240V 50 Hz | | | | Trinidad & Tobago 115V 60 Hz |
| Bulgaria 230V 50 Hz | | | | Tunisia 230V 50 Hz |
| Burkina Faso 220V 50 Hz | | | | Turkey 230V 50 Hz |
| Burundi 220V 50 Hz | | | | Turkmenistan 220V 50 Hz |
| Cambodia 230V 50 Hz | | | | Uganda 240V 50 Hz |
| Cameroon 220V 50 Hz | | | | Ukraine 220V 50 Hz |
| Canada 120V 60 Hz | | | | United Arab Emirates 220V* 50 Hz |
| Canary Islands 220V 50 Hz | | | | United Kingdom 230V* 50 Hz |
| Cape Verde 220V 50 Hz | | | | United States of America 120V 60 Hz |
| Cayman Islands 120V 60 Hz | | | | Uruguay 220V 50 Hz |
| Central African Republic 220V 50 Hz | | | | Uzbekistan 220V 50 Hz |
| Chad 220V 50Hz | | | | Vanuatu 230V 50 Hz |
| Channel Islands 230V 50 Hz | | | | Venezuela 120V 60 Hz |
| Chile 220V 50 Hz | | | | Vietnam 127/220V* 50 Hz |
| China, People's Republic of 220V 50 Hz | | | | Virgin Islands (British and U.S.) 115V 60 Hz |
| Colombia 110V 60Hz | | | | Wales (See United Kingdom) |
| Comoros 220V 50 Hz | | | | Western Samoa 230V 50 Hz |
| Congo, People's Rep. of 230V 50 Hz | | | | Yemen, Rep. of 220/230V 50 Hz |
| Congo, Dem. Rep. of (former Zaire) 220V 50 Hz | | | | Yugoslavia (Former) 220V 50 Hz |
| Cook Islands 240V 50 Hz | | | | Zambia 230V 50 Hz |
| Costa Rica 120V 60 Hz | | | | Zimbabwe 220V 50 Hz |
| Côte d'Ivoire | | | | Primary sources: Electric Current Abroad (1998 edition), |
| (Ivory Coast) 220V 50 Hz | | | | U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical |
| Croatia 230V 50Hz | | | | Information Service; World Electricity Supplies and |
| Cuba 110/220V 60Hz | | | | Electrical Plugs; an International Survey, (both 1993), |
| Cyprus 240V 50 Hz | | | | British Standards Institute. Additionally, since this table |
| Czech Republic 230V 50 Hz | | | | was first posted in late 1995, numerous revisions have |
| Denmark 230V 50 Hz | | | | (and continue to be) made as a result of personal |
| Djibouti 220V 50 Hz | | | | observations or reports from other travelers. |
| Dominica 230V 50 Hz | | | | For further references please visit |
| Dominican Republic 110V 60 Hz | | | | Now, it is not the question of having the right adapter |
| East Timor 220V 50 Hz | | | | with you when you visit abroad. You must be also |
| Ecuador 120-127V 60 Hz | | | | concerned with the electrical power specification that |
| Egypt 220V 50 Hz | | | | is available in the country of your visit. Looking at the |
| El Salvador 115V 60 Hz | | | | guide above, it is clearly understood that your electrical |
| England (See United Kingdom) | | | | and electronic devices will require not only plug |
| Equatorial Guinea 220V* 50 Hz | | | | adapters but also a built-in or separate voltage |
| Eritrea 230V 50 Hz | | | | converter. If you are planning a visit to the United |
| Estonia 230V 50 Hz | | | | Kingdom, you will need a device which converts the |
| Ethiopia 220V 50 Hz | | | | electrical power of 230 Volts Alternating Current (AC) |
| Faeroe Islands 220V 50 Hz | | | | to 110 Volts AC before you can apply that power to |
| Falkland Islands 240V 50 Hz | | | | your equipment.. These converters need to be of the |
| Fiji 240V 50 Hz | | | | right specification of providing the right output |
| Finland 230V 50 Hz | | | | alternating current and the frequency as well for your |
| France 230V 50 Hz | | | | equipment to work correctly. |
| French Guiana 220V 50 Hz | | | | If you need to charge your digital camera in Beijing, you |
| Gaza 230V 50 Hz | | | | will need an adapter which lets you plug in your |
| Gabon 220V 50 Hz | | | | charger on the wall socket. That's not all. Beijing has an |
| Gambia 230V 50 Hz | | | | electrical power output of 220 Volts AC with 50 Hz |
| Germany 230V 50 Hz | | | | frequency and your charger can only accept an input |
| Ghana 230V 50 Hz | | | | voltage of 120 Volts AC and 60Hz. Hz, which is the |
| Gibraltar 240V 50 Hz | | | | short form of Hertz, is the number of cycles the |
| Great Britain (See United Kingdom) | | | | alternating voltage goes through one cycle. This AC |
| Greece 220V 50 Hz | | | | output voltage is normally a sine-wave, alternating |
| Greenland 220V 50 Hz | | | | between a positive and a negative level. This is a |
| Grenada (Windward Is.) 230V 50 Hz | | | | smooth variation with time as the other variant, and |
| Guadeloupe 230V 50 Hz | | | | completion of one such cycle in one second is termed |
| Guam 110V 60Hz | | | | as 1Hz. Therefore, a 110 Volt AC of 60 Hz has 60 |
| Guatemala 120V 60 Hz | | | | cycles in one second. |
| Guinea 220V 50 Hz | | | | Remaining on the aspect of charging your digital |
| Guinea-Bissau 220V 50 Hz | | | | camera in Beijing, you do not only need a plug adapter |
| Guyana 240V* 60 Hz* | | | | but also the right voltage converter, which will give you |
| Haiti 110V 60 Hz | | | | a 120 Volts AC, 60 Hz output from an input of 220 |
| Honduras 110V 60 Hz | | | | Volts AC of 50 Hz, which is the standard electrical |
| Hong Kong 220V* 50 Hz | | | | power in China. The converted AC voltage applied to |
| Hungary 230V 50 Hz | | | | your charger produces a much lower Direct Current |
| Iceland 220V 50 Hz | | | | (DC) voltage output to your digital camera, for charging |
| India 230V 50 Hz | | | | the camera's re-chargeable battery. Application of the |
| Indonesia 127/230V* 50 Hz | | | | direct 220 Volts AC output, without a converter will not |
| Iran 230V 50 Hz | | | | only destroy the charger unit but may also damage |
| Iraq 230V 50 Hz | | | | your digital camera, if it is plugged into the charger, |
| Ireland (Eire) 230 50 Hz | | | | Therefore, when you travel abroad, it is desirable that |
| Isle of Man 240V 50 Hz | | | | you check the electrical power specification of the |
| Israel 230V 50 Hz | | | | country or countries that you are visiting. At the same |
| Italy 230V 50 Hz | | | | time you should determine the plug adapter that you |
| Ivory Coast (See Côte d'Ivoire) | | | | would be wanting. For this purpose you may like to |
| Jamaica 110V 50 Hz | | | | visit for more information. |
| Japan 100V 50/60 Hz* | | | | Voltage converters are available in different |
| Jordan 230V 50 Hz | | | | specifications, which mainly depend upon the purpose |
| Kenya 240V 50 Hz | | | | of its application. For example, a voltage converter for |
| Kazakhstan 220V 50 Hz | | | | your digital camera recharging unit will be much smaller |
| Kiribati 240V 50 Hz | | | | than the one you would need to turn on your iron, if |
| Korea, South 220V 60 Hz | | | | you have one with you. The varying sizes of such |
| Kuwait 240V 50 Hz | | | | converters depend upon the kind of alternating current |
| Laos 230V 50 Hz | | | | or wattage that you would require to either turn on the |
| Latvia 220V 50 Hz | | | | charger or the iron. The wattage along with the |
| Lebanon 110/220V 50 Hz | | | | specification of input and output voltages are generally |
| Lesotho 220V 50 Hz | | | | specified on the body of the converter units that you |
| Liberia 120V 60 Hz | | | | are buying. |
| Libya 127V* 50 Hz | | | | There are adapters available which cater for |
| Lithuania 220V 50 Hz | | | | multi-voltage operation. For example, the adapter itself |
| Liechtenstein 230V 50 Hz | | | | will give you an option to be switched from 110 Volts |
| Luxembourg 220V 50 Hz | | | | AC output to 230 volts AC output. This is done |
| Macau 220V 50 Hz | | | | through a toggle, at times appearing as a screw head |
| Macedonia 220V 50 Hz | | | | on the converter body itself. But then again you may |
| Madagascar 220V 50 Hz | | | | need a plug adapter to plug this mini-converter in the |
| Madeira 220V 50 Hz | | | | electrical power source available in the country that |
| Malawi 230V 50 Hz | | | | you are visiting. In certain countries the electrical power |
| Malaysia 240V 50 Hz | | | | may have surges. Surges are high frequency levels of |
| Maldives 230V 50 Hz | | | | very high voltages, suddenly appearing at the output of |
| Mali 220V 50 Hz | | | | the power source for a fraction of a millisecond or |
| Malta 240V 50 Hz | | | | even micro-second. There are such adapters which |
| Martinique 220V 50 Hz | | | | are available with surge protection. Please bear in mind, |
| Mauritania 220V 50 Hz | | | | thunderstorms can produce these electrical surges |
| Mauritius 230V 50 Hz | | | | which may damage your equipment. |
| Mexico 127V 60 Hz | | | | |