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Resources, Hints & Tips: Country List

The list of entities (countries, dependencies, territories, etc) for the CQ DX Marathon and the CQ World Wide DX Contest is a combination of the 340 entities in the ARRL DXCC list, 5 additional entities on the WAE (Worked All Europe) list (GM/Shetland, IT/Sicily, TA1/European Turkey, 4U1VIC, JW/Bear Is.), and the Italian islands of Lampedusa (IG9) & Pantelleria (IH9), in CQ Zone 33 off the coast of North Africa listed as “African Italy”.

It comprises a total of distinct 346 entities, as of 2023.

See also CQ Amateur Radio’s Detailed Listing of CQ Zones

You may wish to use a quick check tool to identify a correct zone as data bases such as QRZ many times contain errors. Go to the website zone-check.eu Copy and paste the grid square of your station worked and paste it into this program at the appropriate place. A map will result showing both the CQ and ITU zone.

Official List

A full list of entites and zones, along with extensive additional information, is available in the following formats:

See also the full list of CQ Zones.

Last Updated: January 15th 2024.

Entities

Prefix Name Continent CQ Zones
1A Sovereign Military Order of Malta EU 15
1S Spratly Is. AS 26
3A Monaco EU 14
3B6 Agalega and Saint Brandon Is. AF 39
3B8 Mauritius AF 39
3B9 Rodrigues I. AF 39
3C Equatorial Guinea AF 36
3C0 Annobón AF 36
3D2 Fiji OC 32
3D2/c Conway Reef OC 32
3D2/r Rotuma I. OC 32
3DA Eswatini AF 38
3V Tunisia AF 33
3W Viet Nam AS 26
3X Guinea AF 35
3Y/b Bouvet I. AF 38
3Y/p Peter I I. AN 12
4J Azerbaijan AS 21
4L Georgia AS 21
4O Montenegro EU 15
4S Sri Lanka AS 22
4U1I ITU Headquarters EU 14
4U1U UN Headquarters NA 5
4U1V UN Vienna Int. Center EU 15
4W Timor-Leste OC 28
4X Israel AS 20
5A Libya AF 34
5B Cyprus AS 20
5H Tanzania AF 37
5N Nigeria AF 35
5R Madagascar AF 39
5T Mauritania AF 35
5U Niger AF 35
5V Togo AF 35
5W Samoa OC 32
5X Uganda AF 37
5Z Kenya AF 37
6W Senegal AF 35
6Y Jamaica NA 8
7O Yemen AS 21,37
7P Lesotho AF 38
7Q Malawi AF 37
7X Algeria AF 33
8P Barbados NA 8
8Q Maldives, AF 22
8R Guyana SA 9
9A Croatia EU 15
9G Ghana AF 35
9H Malta EU 15
9J Zambia AF 36
9K Kuwait AS 21
9L Sierra Leone AF 35
9M2 West Malaysia AS 28
9M6 East Malaysia OC 28
9N Nepal AS 22
9Q DR of Congo-Kinshasa AF 36
9U Burundi AF 36
9V Singapore AS 28
9X Rwanda AF 36
9Y Trinidad and Tobago SA 9
A2 Botswana AF 38
A3 Tonga OC 32
A4 Oman AS 21
A5 Bhutan AS 22
A6 United Arab Emirates AS 21
A7 Qatar AS 21
A9 Bahrain AS 21
AP Pakistan AS 21
BS7 Scarborough Reef AS 27
BV Taiwan AS 24
BV9P Pratas I. AS 24
BY China AS 23, 24
C2 Nauru OC 31
C3 Andorra EU 14
C5 The Gambia AF 35
C6 Bahamas NA 8
C9 Mozambique AF 37
CE Chile SA 12
CE0X San Felix Is. SA 12
CE0Y Easter I. SA 12
CE0Z Juan Fernández Is. SA 12
CE9 Antarctica AN 12, 13, 29, 30, 32, 38, 39
CM Cuba NA 8
CN Morocco AF 33
CP Bolivia SA 10
CT Portugal EU 14
CT3 Madeira AF 33
CU Azores EU 14
CX Uruguay SA 13
CY0 Sable I. NA 5
CY9 Saint Paul I. NA 5
D2 Angola AF 36
D4 Cape Verde AF 35
D6 Comoros AF 39
DL Germany EU 14
DU Philippines OC 27
E3 Eritrea AF 37
E4 Palestine AS 20
E5/n North Cook Is. OC 32
E5/s South Cook Is. OC 32
E6 Niue OC 32
E7 Bosnia-Herzegovina EU 15
EA Spain EU 14
EA6 Balearic Is. EU 14
EA8 Canary Is. AF 33
EA9 Ceuta and Melilla AF 33
EI Ireland EU 14
EK Armenia AS 21
EL Liberia AF 35
EP Iran AS 21
ER Moldova EU 16
ES Estonia EU 15
ET Ethiopia AF 37
EU Belarus EU 16
EX Kyrgyzstan AS 17
EY Tajikistan AS 17
EZ Turkmenistan AS 17
F France EU 14
FG Guadeloupe NA 8
FH Mayotte AF 39
FJ Saint Barthelemy NA 8
FK New Caledonia OC 32
FK/c Chesterfield Is. OC 30
FM Martinique NA 8
FO French Polynesia OC 32
FO/a Austral Is. OC 32
FO/c Clipperton I. NA 7
FO/m Marquesas Is. OC 31
FP Saint Pierre and Miquelon NA 5
FR Réunion AF 39
FS Saint Martin NA 8
FT/g Glorioso Is. AF 39
FT/j Juan de Nova and Europa Is. AF 39
FT/t Tromelin I. AF 39
FT/w Crozet Is. AF 39
FT/x Kerguelen Is. AF 39
FT/z Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Is. AF 39
FW Wallis and Futuna Is. OC 32
FY French Guiana SA 9
G England EU 14
GD Isle of Man EU 14
GI Northern Ireland EU 14
GJ Jersey EU 14
GM Scotland EU 14
GM/s Shetland Is. EU 14
GU Guernsey EU 14
GW Wales EU 14
H4 Solomon Is. OC 28
H40 Temotu Province OC 32
HA Hungary EU 15
HB Switzerland EU 14
HB0 Liechtenstein EU 14
HC Ecuador SA 10
HC8 Galápagos Is. SA 10
HH Haiti NA 8
HI Dominican Republic NA 8
HK Colombia SA 9
HK0/a San Andrés and Providencia NA 7
HK0/m Malpelo I. SA 9
HL South Korea AS 25
HP Panama NA 7
HR Honduras NA 7
HS Thailand AS 26
HV Vatican EU 15
HZ Saudi Arabia AS 21
I Italy EU 15
IG9 African Italy EU 33
IS Sardinia EU 15
IT9 Sicily EU 15
J2 Djibouti AF 37
J3 Grenada NA 8
J5 Guinea-Bissau AF 35
J6 Saint Lucia NA 8
J7 Dominica NA 8
J8 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines NA 8
JA Japan AS 25
JD/m Minami-Tori-shima OC 27
JD/o Ogasawara Is. AS 27
JT Mongolia AS 23
JW Svalbard EU 40
JW/b Bear I. EU 40
JX Jan Mayen EU 40
JY Jordan AS 20
K United States NA 3, 4, 5
KG4 Guantanamo Bay NA 8
KH0 Mariana Is. OC 27
KH1 Howland and Baker Is. OC 31
KH2 Guam OC 27
KH3 Johnston Atoll OC 31
KH4 Midway Atoll OC 31
KH5 Palmyra and Jarvis Is. OC 31
KH6 Hawaii OC 31
KH7K Kure Atoll OC 31
KH8 American Samoa OC 32
KH8/s Swains I. OC 32
KH9 Wake I. OC 31
KL Alaska NA 1
KP1 Navassa I. NA 8
KP2 US Virgin Is. NA 8
KP4 Puerto Rico NA 8
KP5 Desecheo I. NA 8
LA Norway EU 14
LU Argentina SA 13
LX Luxembourg EU 14
LY Lithuania EU 15
LZ Bulgaria EU 20
OA Perú SA 10
OD Lebanon AS 20
OE Austria EU 15
OH Finland EU 15
OH0 Åland Is. EU 15
OJ0 Märket I. EU 15
OK Czechia EU 15
OM Slovakia EU 15
ON Belgium EU 14
OX Greenland NA 40
OY Faroe Is. EU 14
OZ Denmark EU 14
P2 Papua New Guinea OC 28
P4 Aruba SA 9
P5 D.P.R. of Korea AS 25
PA Netherlands EU 14
PJ2 Curaçao SA 9
PJ4 Bonaire SA 9
PJ5 Saba and Sint Eustatius NA 8
PJ7 Sint Maarten NA 8
PY Brazil SA 11
PY0F Fernando de Noronha SA 11
PY0S Saint Peter and Saint Paul Is SA 11
PY0T Trindade and Martin Vaz SA 11
PZ Suriname SA 9
R1FJ Franz Josef Land EU 40
S0 Western Sahara AF 33
S2 Bangladesh AS 22
S5 Slovenia EU 15
S7 Seychelles AF 39
S9 Sao Tome and Principe AF 36
SM Sweden EU 14
SP Poland EU 15
ST Sudan AF 34
SU Egypt AF 34
SV Greece EU 20
SV/a Mount Athos EU 20
SV5 Dodecanese EU 20
SV9 Crete EU 20
T2 Tuvalu OC 31
T30 Western Kiribati OC 31
T31 Central Kiribati OC 31
T32 Eastern Kiribati OC 31
T33 Banaba I. OC 31
T5 Somalia AF 37
T7 San Marino EU 15
T8 Palau OC 27
TA Turkey EU, AS 20
TA1 European Turkey EU 20
TF Iceland EU 40
TG Guatemala NA 7
TI Costa Rica NA 7
TI9 Cocos I. NA 7
TJ Cameroon AF 36
TK Corsica EU 15
TL Central African Republic AF 36
TN Congo-Brazzaville AF 36
TR Gabon AF 36
TT Chad AF 36
TU Côte d’Ivoire AF 35
TY Benin AF 35
TZ Mali AF 35
UA European Russia EU 16
UA2 Kaliningrad EU 15
UA9 Asiatic Russia AS 16, 17, 18, 19, 23
UK Uzbekistan AS 17
UN Kazakhstan AS 17
UR Ukraine EU 16
V2 Antigua and Barbuda NA 8
V3 Belize NA 7
V4 Saint Kitts and Nevis NA 8
V5 Namibia AF 38
V6 Micronesia OC 27
V7 Marshall Is. OC 31
V8 Brunei Darussalam OC 28
VE Canada NA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
VK Australia OC 29, 30
VK0H Heard I. and McDonald Is. AF 39
VK0M Macquarie I. OC 30
VK9C Cocos (Keeling) Is. OC 29
VK9L Lord Howe I. OC 30
VK9M Mellish Reef OC 30
VK9N Norfolk I. OC 32
VK9W Willis I. OC 30
VK9X Christmas I. OC 29
VP2E Anguilla NA 8
VP2M Montserrat NA 8
VP2V British Virgin Is. NA 8
VP5 Turks and Caicos Is. NA 8
VP6 Pitcairn Is. OC 32
VP6/d Ducie I. OC 32
VP8 Falkland Is. SA 13
VP8/g South Georgia I. SA 13
VP8/h South Shetland Is. SA 13
VP8/o South Orkney Is. SA 13
VP8/s South Sandwich Is. SA 13
VP9 Bermuda NA 5
VQ9 Chagos Is. AF 39
VR Hong Kong AS 24
VU India AS 22
VU4 Andaman and Nicobar Is. AS 26
VU7 Lakshadweep AS 22
XE México NA 6
XF4 Revillagigedo Is. NA 6
XT Burkina Faso AF 35
XU Cambodia AS 26
XW Laos AS 26
XX9 Macao AS 24
XZ Myanmar AS 26
YA Afghanistan AS 21
YB Indonesia OC 28
YI Iraq AS 21
YJ Vanuatu OC 32
YK Syria AS 20
YL Latvia EU 15
YN Nicaragua NA 7
YO Romania EU 20
YS El Salvador NA 7
YU Serbia EU 15
YV Venezuela SA 9
YV0 Aves I. NA 8
Z2 Zimbabwe AF 38
Z3 North Macedonia EU 15
Z6 Kosovo EU 15
Z8 South Sudan AF 34
ZA Albania EU 15
ZB Gibraltar EU 14
ZC4 UK Sovereign Bases on Cyprus AS 20
ZD7 Saint Helena AF 36
ZD8 Ascension I. AF 36
ZD9 Tristan da Cunha and Gough Is. AF 38
ZF Cayman Is. NA 8
ZK3 Tokelau OC 31
ZL New Zealand OC 32
ZL7 Chatham Is. OC 32
ZL8 Kermadec Is. OC 32
ZL9 New Zealand Subantarctic Is. OC 32
ZP Paraguay SA 11
ZS South Africa AF 38
ZS8 Prince Edward and Marion Is. AF 38
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