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Mauritania

Mauritania is a DX entity in Africa, in CQ zone 35 and ITU zone 46. Its primary prefix is 5T.

Flag of Mauritania.

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Figure 1. Mauritania and its regions, 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 0.01321 degrees, about 1 km; exported 30 October 2026. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area centred on 21° N 11° W.

Data sheet

DXCC entity code	444
Name in the ADIF standard	MAURITANIA
Continent	Africa
Primary prefix	5T
CQ zone	35
ITU zone	46

Prefixes

5T is the primary prefix. The country files list 1 prefix for Mauritania.

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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.