DX INFO CENTRE RADIO COUNTRIES |
North America |
Europe |
Asia |
South America |
Africa |
Oceania |
Antarctica |
International Waters |
Space |
Code |
Country |
North America | |
ALS | Alaska |
AIA | Anguilla |
ATG | Antigua & Barbuda |
ABW | Aruba |
BAH | Bahamas |
BRB | Barbados |
BLZ | Belize |
BER | Bermuda |
VRG | British Virgin Islands |
CAN | Canada |
BES | Caribbean Netherlands |
CYM | Cayman Islands |
CPT | Clipperton Island |
CTR | Costa Rica |
CUB | Cuba |
CUW | Curazao |
DMA | Dominica |
DOM | Dominicana |
GRL | Greenland |
GRD | Grenada |
GLP | Guadeloupe |
CG7 | Guantanamo Bay |
GTM | Guatemala |
HTI | Haiti |
HND | Honduras |
JMC | Jamaica |
MRT | Martinique |
MEX | Mexico |
MSR | Montserrat |
XNV | Navassa Island |
NCG | Nicaragua |
PNR | Panama |
PTR | Puerto Rico |
BLM | St. Barthelemy |
KNA | St. Kitts & Nevis |
LCA | Saint Lucia |
MAF | Saint Martin |
SPM | St. Pierre & Miquelon |
VCT | St. Vincent & The Grenadines |
SLV | El Salvador |
SXM | Sint Maarten |
SWN | Swan Islands |
TRD | Trinidad & Tobago |
TCA | Turks & Caicos |
XUN |
UN [United Nations] 1 |
USA | USA [America] |
VIR | Virgin Islands |
1 stations with 4UY call signs in New York (also see entry under Europe). XUN counts as one entity. | |
South America | |
ARG | Argentina |
BOL | Bolivia |
BRA | Brazil |
CHL | Chile |
CLM | Colombia |
EQA | Ecuador |
FLK | Falkland Islands 1 |
GUF | French Guyana |
GUY | Guyana |
PRG | Paraguay |
PRU | Peru |
SUR | Suriname |
URG | Uruguay |
VEN | Venezuela |
1 excl. South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands. (see under Antarctica) |
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Europe | |
ALB | Albania |
AND | Andorra |
ARM | Armenia |
AUT | Austria |
AZE | Azerbaijan |
AZR | Azores |
BLR | Belarus |
BEL | Belgium |
BIH | Bosnia & Herzegovina |
GBR | Britannia |
GGY | Guernsey |
IMN | Isle of Man |
JEY | Jersey |
XSQ | Sark |
BUL | Bulgaria |
HRV | Croatia |
CZE | Czechia |
DNK | Denmark |
IRL | Ιire |
EST | Estonia |
FRO | Faero Islands |
FIN | Finland |
ALA | Aaland |
FRA | France |
GEO | Georgia |
XAB | Abkhazia |
XSO | South Ossetia |
DEU | Germany |
GIB | Gibraltar |
GRC | Greece |
HNG | Hungary |
ISL | Iceland |
ITA | Italy |
XOM | Order of Malta |
LVA | Latvia |
LIE | Liechtenstein |
LTU | Lithuania |
LUX | Luxembourg |
MLT | Malta |
MDA | Moldova |
XSN | TMR [Moldovan Transnistria] |
MCO | Monaco |
MNE | Montenegro |
HOL | Netherlands |
MKD | North Macedonia |
NOR | Norway |
XJN | Jan Mayen |
SJM | Svalbard |
POL | Poland |
POR | Portugal |
ROU | Romania |
3RUS3 | Russia 2 |
SMR | San Marino |
3SRB3 | Serbia |
KOS3 | Kosovo |
SVK | Slovakia |
SVN | Slovenia |
ESP | Spain |
SWE | Sweden |
SUI | Switzerland |
UKR | Ukraine |
XUN |
UN [United Nations] 4 |
CVA | Vatican |
1 de facto country dissolved on 2023-09-28. | |
2 excl. Siberia, Far East & Ural (see under Asia). | |
3 provisional code used by IOC. | |
4
stations with 4UZ call signs in Geneva or Vienna (also see entry under
North America). XUN counts as one entity. Stations with 4UA-4UX call
signs count only under the country that they are located in. | |
Africa | |
XBY | Abyei |
ALG | Algeria |
AGL | Angola |
ASC | Ascension Island |
BEN | Benin |
BOT | Botswana |
BFA | Burkina Faso |
BDI | Burundi |
CME | Cameroon |
CNR | Canary Islands |
CPV | Cape Verde |
CAF | Centrafrica |
TCD | Chad |
COM | Comoros |
COG | Congo |
COD | Democratic Congo |
DJI | Djibouti |
EGY | Egypt |
GNE | Equatorial Guinea |
ERI | Eritrea |
SWZ | Eswatini |
ETH | Ethiopia |
GAB | Gabon |
GMB | The Gambia |
GHA | Ghana |
GUI | Guinea |
GNB | Guinea-Bissau |
CTI | Ivory Coast |
KEN | Kenya |
LSO | Lesotho |
LBR | Liberia |
LBY | Libya |
MDG | Madagascar |
MDR | Madeira |
MWI | Malawi |
MLI | Mali |
MTN | Mauritania |
MAU | Mauritius |
MYT | Mayotte |
MRC | Morocco |
MOZ | Mozambique |
NMB | Namibia |
NGR | Niger |
NIG | Nigeria |
REU | Reunion |
XBI | Bassas da India |
XEU | Europa Island |
XGL | Glorioso Islands |
XJN | Juan de Nova Island |
XTR | Tromelin Island |
ROD | Rodrigues |
RRW | Rwanda |
AOE | Sahara |
XRS | Sahara Republic |
SHN | St. Helena |
STP | S. Tome & Principe |
SEN | Senegal |
SEY | Seychelles |
SRL | Sierra Leone |
SOM | Soomaaliya |
SMB | Somaliland |
AFS | South Africa |
SSD | South Sudan |
SDN | Sudan |
TZA | Tanzania |
TGO | Togo |
TRC | Tristan da Cunha |
XGE | Gough Island |
TUN | Tunisia |
UGA | Uganda |
ZMB | Zambia |
ZWE | Zimbabwe |
Asia | |
AFG | Afghanistan |
BHR | Bahrain |
BGD | Bangladesh |
BTN | Bhutan |
BIO | British Indian Ocean 1 |
BRU | Brunei Darussalam |
CBG | Cambodia |
CHN | China |
XPR | Paracel Islands |
TWN2 | China (Taiwan) |
CYP | Cyprus |
XQZ | Akrotiri |
XXD | Dhekelia |
XNC | North Cyprus |
DGA | Diego Garcia |
TLS | East Timor |
UAE | Emirati Arabia |
XGZ | Gaza Strip |
HKG | Hong Kong |
IND | India |
INS | Indonesia |
IRN | Iran |
IRQ | Iraq |
ISR | Israel |
JOR | Jordan |
KAZ | Kazakhstan |
KOR | Korea |
KRE | Korea DPR |
KWT | Kuwait |
KGZ | Kyrgyzstan |
LAO | Laos |
LBN | Lebanon |
MAC | Macao |
MLA | Malaysia |
BRN | Sabah & Labuan |
SRW | Sarawak |
MLD | Maldives |
MNG | Mongolia |
BRM | Myanmar |
NPL | Nepal |
JPN | Nippon |
OMA | Oman |
PAK | Pakistan |
PSE3 | Palestine |
PHL | Pilipinas |
QAT | Qatar |
SEO | Russia Siberia, Far East & Ural |
ARS | Saudi Arabia |
SNG | Singapore |
XSP | Spratly Islands |
CLN | Sri Lanka |
SYR | Syria |
TJK | Tajikistan |
THA | Thailand |
TUR | Turkey |
TKM | Turkmenistan |
UZB | Uzbekistan |
VTN | Viet Nam |
YEM | Yemen |
1 excl. Diego Garcia. | |
2 Current ITU code is XCN. | |
3 West Bank portion. ITU code for West Bank is XWB. | |
Oceania | |
SMA | American Samoa |
AUS | Australia |
XAC | Ashmore & Cartier Islands |
XCS | Coral Sea Islands |
CHR | Christmas Island |
ICO | Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
CKH | Cook Islands |
PAQ | Easter Island |
FJI | Fiji |
OCE | French Polynesia |
GUM | Guam |
HWA | Hawaii |
HWL | Howland Island |
QBK | Baker Island |
JAR | Jarvis Island |
JON | Johnston Atoll |
KIR | Kiribati |
XLN | Southern Line Islands |
MHL | Marshall Islands |
FSM | Micronesia |
MDW | Midway Islands |
NRU | Nauru |
NCL | New Caledonia |
NZL | New Zealand |
NIU | Niue |
NFK | Norfolk Island |
MRA | Northern Mariana Islands |
PLW | Palau |
PLM | Palmyra Atoll |
XKR | Kingman Reef |
PNG | Papua New Guinea |
PHX | Phoenix Islands
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CTE | Canton & Enderbury |
PTC | Pitcairn Islands |
SMO | Samoa |
SLM | Solomon Islands |
XSX | Temotu |
TKL | Tokelau |
TON | Tonga |
TUV | Tuvalu |
VUT | Vanuatu |
XBK | Torba |
WAK | Wake Island |
WAL | Wallis & Futuna |
Antarctica | |
ADL1 | Adelie Land |
ATA | Antarctica 2 |
XAA | Australian Antarctica |
ATB | British Antarctica |
ATN | Queen Maud Land & Peter I Island |
XRD | Ross |
XOR | South Orkney Islands |
BVT | Bouvet Island |
CRO | Crozet Islands |
SGS | Falkland Islands South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands |
HMD | Heard & McDonald Islands |
KER | Kerguelen Islands |
MRN | Prince Edward Islands |
AMS | St. Paul & Amsterdam Islands |
1 Current ITU code is XFR. | |
2 ATA code for unclaimed Antarctica between 90°W and 150°W (Marie Byrd & Ellsworth Lands). | |
International Waters | |
ATL | Ocean Stations - Atlantic Region 1 |
PAC | Ocean Stations - Pacific Region 1 |
XMM | Ships 2 |
1 Stations with 4Y call signs (operated by ICAO), and/or C7 call signs (operated by the WMO). | |
2 Outside of EEZ zones. | |
Space | |
ZDX | Deep Space 1 |
ZJU | Jupiter |
ZMA | Mars |
ZME | Mercury |
ZMO | Moon 2 |
ZNE | Neptune |
ZOX | Outer Space 3 |
ZPL | Pluto |
ZSA | Saturn |
ZSU | Sun |
ZUR | Uranus |
ZVE | Venus |
Note A : man-made stations only. | |
Note B : Sun & planet codes for within 2,000,000 km of solar or planetary surfaces. | |
1 beyond 2,000,000 km from Earth, Sun, or another planet. |
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2 within 100 km of Moon's surface. | |
3 100 km above Earth's surface to within 2,000,000 km of Earth, excl. ZMO. |
1) ITU Preface (Terrestrial Services) : 'Geographical Areas' |
2) UN M49 : 'Countries or Areas / Geographical Regions' |
3) UPU Postal Addressing Systems : 'ISO 3166-1 Alpha Codes' in Antarctica |
4) WMO No. 386 : 'Country or Territory Designators' |
5) ICAO Location Identifiers : 'Index to Nationality Letters' |
6) US.CIA : 'Country Data Codes' |
7) Wikipedia : 'List of States With Limited Recognition', including Order of Malta |
8) for Space entries only : MARC Code List : 'Geographical Areas' |
Record of Changes | |
2024-04-06 | Jan Mayen code changed to XJN to match former WMO code. |
2024-04-04 | Kosovo code changed to KOS, which is an IOC code, rather than using other non-uniform X codes in use. |
2024-04-03 | New criteria added to determine eligible entities : US.CIA 'Country Data Codes'. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/country-data-codes/ Added were : XBI XEU XGL XJN XKR XPR XQZ XTR XXD. QBK was assigned to Baker Island as XBK is already assigned to Torba. Deleted was XIE as it was made redundant. Adelie Land code changed from XFR to the former ITU code ADL. Artsakh XAR deleted. The de facto country dissolved on 2023-09-28 and re-integrated into Azerbaijan. British Antarctica code changed to deprecated ISO code ATB and Queen Maud Land & Peter I Island code changed to ATN. Gough Island code changed to XGE, Southern Line Islands code changed to XLN, Temotu code changed to XSX, and Torba code changed to XBK. Sark code changed to XSQ to reflect official use by Canadian government. United Nations changed to UN [United Nations] to reflect new name on stamps. Sub-countries deleted to reflect this new unified name. |
2024-04-02 | XWM split into ATL and PAC to match List of Coast Stations. XOA deleted and merged into these regions. |
2024-04-01 |
SGS moved from South America to Antarctica to conform with traditional Hammond Atlas continents. |
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