Africa · DX entity · DXCC 029

Canary Islands

Canary Islands is a DX entity in Africa, in CQ zone 33 and ITU zone 36. Its primary prefix is EA8.

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Figure 1. Canary Islands and its autonomous communities, 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 0.002747 degrees, about 306 m; exported 30 October 2026. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area centred on 28.5° N 15.8° W.

Data sheet

DXCC entity code	029
Name in the ADIF standard	CANARY IS.
Continent	Africa
Primary prefix	EA8
CQ zone	33
ITU zone	36

Prefixes

EA8 is the primary prefix. The country files list 11 prefixes and prefix blocks for Canary Islands.

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EA8 AM8 AN8 AO8 EB8 EC8 ED8 EE8 EF8 EG8 EH8

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.