To obtain a radio communication terminal which retrieves quickly a contact address in an emergency suited on the spot in the event of an emergent situation happened in a country or area, etc. being ill-informed about the telephone number and quickly communicates with the retrieved contact address.

A portable telephone 105 acquires a country number based on reported information acquired from a radio base station not shown, an emergency call retriever 128 retrieves information about emergency call numbers, etc corresponding to an identified country from a country number to emergency call number correspondence table 131, and the obtained information by the retrieval are registered on a country number registering area 135. In the event of any emergent situation, the user pushes an emergency call originating button 125 to read the country's emergency call number from a controller 121, and an emergency call originator 127 outputs an originating call for the emergent situation. This may be reported with a voice message or by electronic mail.