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Malawi

Malawi is a DX entity in Africa, in CQ zone 37 and ITU zone 53. Its primary prefix is 7Q.

Flag of Malawi.

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Figure 1. Malawi 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 0.008162 degrees, about 909 m; exported 30 October 2026. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area centred on 13.3° S 34.3° E.

Data sheet

DXCC entity code	440
Name in the ADIF standard	MALAWI
Continent	Africa
Primary prefix	7Q
CQ zone	37
ITU zone	53

Prefixes

7Q is the primary prefix. The country files list 1 prefix for Malawi.

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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.