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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
Greece	236	SV	20	28
Guernsey	106	GU	14	27
Hungary	239	HA	15	28
Iceland	242	TF	40	17
Ireland	245	EI	14	27
Isle of Man	114	GD	14	27
Italy	248	I	15, 33	28
ITU Headquarters	117	4U1I	14	28
Jan Mayen	118	JX	40	18
Jersey	122	GJ	14	27
Kaliningrad	126	UA2	15	29
Kosovo	522	Z6	15	28
Latvia	145	YL	15	29
Liechtenstein	251	HB0	14	28
Lithuania	146	LY	15	29
Luxembourg	254	LX	14	27
Malta	257	9H	15	28
Market Reef	167	OJ0	15	18
Moldova	179	ER	16	29
Monaco	260	3A	14	27
Montenegro	514	4O	15	28
Mount Athos	180	SV	20	28
Netherlands	263	PA	14	27
North Macedonia	502	Z3	15	28
Northern Ireland	265	GI	14	27

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).