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Europe

Europe holds 68 current DX entities and 7 deleted ones in the DXCC list.

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Figure 1. Europe: 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 52° N 10° E.

Current entities

Entity	DXCC	Prefix	CQ zone	ITU zone
Aland Island	005	OH0	15	18
Albania	007	ZA	15	28
Andorra	203	C3	14	27
Austria	206	OE	15	28
Azores	149	CU	14	36
Balearic Island	021	EA6	14	37
Belarus	027	EU	16	29
Belgium	209	ON	14	27
Bosnia-Herzegovina	501	E7	15	28
Bulgaria	212	LZ	20	28
Corsica	214	TK	15	28
Crete	040	SV9	20	28
Croatia	497	9A	15	28
Czech Republic	503	OK	15	28
Denmark	221	OZ	14	18
Dodecanese	045	SV5	20	28
England	223	G	14	27
Estonia	052	ES	15	29
European Russia	054	UA	16, 17	19, 20, 29, 30
Faroe Islands	222	OY	14	18
Finland	224	OH	15	18
France	227	F	14	27
Franz Josef Land	061	R1FJ	40	75
Germany	230	DL	14	28
Gibralter	233	ZB	14	37

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
Czechoslovakia	218	the start of DXCC	1 January 1993	15	28
East Germany	229	17 September 1973	3 October 1990	14	28
Germany	081	the start of DXCC	17 September 1973	14	28
Karelo-Finnish Republic	128	the start of DXCC	1 July 1960	16	19
Malyj Vysotskij Island	151	the start of DXCC	17 February 2012	16	29
Saar	210	the start of DXCC	1 April 1957	14	28
Trieste	271	the start of DXCC	1 April 1957	15	28

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).