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India

India is a DX entity in Asia, in CQ zone 22 and ITU zone 41. Its primary prefix is VU.

Flag of India.

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Figure 1. India and its states, 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 0.02902 degrees, about 3 km; exported 30 October 2026. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area centred on 21.9° N 82.8° E.

Data sheet

DXCC entity code	324
Name in the ADIF standard	INDIA
Continent	Asia
Primary prefix	VU
CQ zone	22
ITU zone	41

Prefixes

VU is the primary prefix. The country files list 14 prefixes and prefix blocks for India.

Show all prefixes

VU 8T 8U 8V 8W 8X 8Y AT AU AV AW VT VV VW

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.