Asia · DX entity · DXCC 003

Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a DX entity in Asia, in CQ zone 21 and ITU zone 40. Its primary prefix is YA.

Flag of Afghanistan.

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Figure 1. Afghanistan and its provinces, 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 0.009565 degrees, about 1 km; exported 30 October 2026. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area centred on 33.9° N 67.7° E.

Data sheet

DXCC entity code	003
Name in the ADIF standard	AFGHANISTAN
Continent	Asia
Primary prefix	YA
CQ zone	21
ITU zone	40

Prefixes

YA is the primary prefix. The country files list 2 prefixes and prefix blocks for Afghanistan.

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YA T6

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.