HT4859 I backed up my phone, so where are my contacts?

Hi!
I backed up my iPhone 4 onto iCloud. When I open my contacts on my labtop via iCloud, there are only two contacts. I have over 1,000 in my phone.
I am trying to back this up because I need to send my iPhone to be repaired and I want to be sure I don't lose any info.
Any suggestions?

If you login to your iCloud account in a web browser on your computer, are all the contacts there?
If they are all there in iCloud, and on your iPhone and just NOT in outlook on your Windows machine, then I'm out of options to suggest as I do not use iCloud on any Windows machines.  Someone who does will hopefully see the thread and post some help.

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