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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a DX entity in Africa, in CQ zone 35 and ITU zone 46. Its primary prefix is XT.

Flag of Burkina Faso.

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Figure 1. Burkina Faso 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 0.005987 degrees, about 667 m; exported 30 October 2026. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area centred on 12.2° N 1.6° W.

Data sheet

DXCC entity code	480
Name in the ADIF standard	BURKINA FASO
Continent	Africa
Primary prefix	XT
CQ zone	35
ITU zone	46

Prefixes

XT is the primary prefix. The country files list 1 prefix for Burkina Faso.

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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.