Africa · DX entity · DXCC 402

Botswana

Botswana is a DX entity in Africa, in CQ zone 38 and ITU zone 57. Its primary prefix is A2.

Flag of Botswana.

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Figure 1. Botswana 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 0.009589 degrees, about 1 km; exported 30 October 2026. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area centred on 22.3° S 24.7° E.

Data sheet

DXCC entity code	402
Name in the ADIF standard	BOTSWANA
Continent	Africa
Primary prefix	A2
CQ zone	38
ITU zone	57

Prefixes

A2 is the primary prefix. The country files list 2 prefixes and prefix blocks for Botswana.

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A2 8O

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.