Europe · DX entity · DXCC 265

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is a DX entity in Europe, in CQ zone 14 and ITU zone 27. Its primary prefix is GI.

Flag of Northern Ireland.

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Figure 1. Northern Ireland and its districts, with neighbouring land in grey. Hover for names; scroll to zoom. Boundaries: Natural Earth, Admin 0 Map Subunits and Admin 1 States and Provinces, 1:10m, version 5.1.2 (13 May 2022), public domain, retrieved 2026-10-15. https://www.naturalearthdata.com/. DX entity boundaries assembled by The DX Atlas Project from the sources named, one recipe row per DXCC entity (subunits matched, merged, split by box or carved from a parent; DXEntity-Recipe.md), 2026. Simplified for this page to 0.001917 degrees, about 213 m; exported 30 October 2026. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area centred on 54.7° N 6.8° W.

Data sheet

DXCC entity code	265
Name in the ADIF standard	NORTHERN IRELAND
Continent	Europe
Primary prefix	GI
CQ zone	14
ITU zone	27

Prefixes

GI is the primary prefix. The country files list 5 prefixes and prefix blocks for Northern Ireland.

Show all prefixes

GI 2I GN MI MN

Sources: Jim Reisert AD1C, Big CTY country files, 15 September 2026. https://www.country-files.com/ (MIT licence); ADIF Development Group, ADIF Specification version 3.1.8 (2026-10-12), DXCC Entity Code enumeration. https://adif.org/; ARRL, DXCC List (current and deleted entities), January 2026. https://www.arrl.org/country-lists-prefixes; Flag: Flagpedia.net (flagcdn.com), SVG, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-10.