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Africa

Africa holds 76 current DX entities and 18 deleted ones in the DXCC list.

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Figure 1. Africa: its DX entities in colour, the rest of the world in grey, with a 10-degree graticule, the Maidenhead fields lettered, and the notable parallels dashed. Hover for the code and name; 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 0.045 degrees, about 5 km at the equator; exported 30 October 2026. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area centred on 5° S 20° E.

Current entities

Entity	DXCC	Prefix	CQ zone	ITU zone
Agalega and St Brandon Islands	004	3B6	39	53
Algeria	400	7X	33	37
Amsterdam and St Paul Islands	010	FT	39	68
Angola	401	D2	36	52
Annobón Island	195	3C0	36	52
Ascension Island	205	ZD8	36	66
Benin	416	TY	35	46
Botswana	402	A2	38	57
Bouvet	024	3Y	38	67
Burkina Faso	480	XT	35	46
Burundi	404	9U	36	52
Cameroon	406	TJ	36	47
Canary Islands	029	EA8	33	36
Cape Verde	409	D4	35	46
Central Africa	408	TL	36	47
Ceuta and Melilla	032	EA9	33	37
Chad	410	TT	36	47
Chagos Islands	033	VQ9	39	41
Comoros	411	D6	39	53
Crozet Islands	041	FT	39	68
Democratic Republic of the Congo	414	9Q	36	52
Djibouti	382	J2	37	48
Egypt	478	SU	34	38
Equatorial Guinea	049	3C	36	47
Eritrea	051	E3	37	48

Deleted entities

Deleted entities no longer count for new contacts. Each counts for contacts made within its dates; the end date shown is the first day contacts no longer count.

Entity	DXCC	Counted from	Deleted	CQ zone	ITU zone
Aldabra	008	the start of DXCC	29 June 1976	39	53
Blenheim Reef	023	4 May 1967	1 July 1975	39	41
British Somaliland	026	the start of DXCC	1 July 1960	37	48
Comoros	039	the start of DXCC	6 July 1975	39	53
Desroches	044	the start of DXCC	29 June 1976	39	53
Farquhar	055	the start of DXCC	29 June 1976	39	53
French Equatorial Africa	057	the start of DXCC	17 August 1960	36	47, 52
French West Africa	059	the start of DXCC	7 August 1960	35	46
Geyser Reef	093	4 May 1967	1 March 1978	39	53
Gold Coast, Togoland	102	the start of DXCC	6 March 1957	35	46
Ifni	113	the start of DXCC	14 May 1969	33	37
Italian Somaliland	115	the start of DXCC	1 July 1960	37	48
Penguin Island	493	the start of DXCC	1 March 1994	38	57
Ruanda-Urundi	208	1 July 1960	1 July 1962	36	52
Southern Sudan	244	7 May 1972	1 January 1995	34	47, 48
Tangier	264	the start of DXCC	1 July 1960	33	37
Walvis Bay	488	1 September 1977	1 March 1994	38	57
Zanzibar	307	the start of DXCC	1 June 1974	37	53

Sources: ADIF Development Group, ADIF Specification 3.1.8, DXCC Entity Code enumeration; Jim Reisert AD1C, Big CTY country files, 15 September 2026 (continents, zones, prefixes); ARRL, DXCC List, January 2026 (the authority; deleted entities' dates).