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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
Norway	266	LA	14	18
Poland	269	SP	15	28
Portugal	272	CT	14	37
Romania	275	YO	20	28
San Marino	278	T7	15	28
Sardinia	225	IS	15	28
Scotland	279	GM	14	27
Serbia	296	YU	15	28
Slovak Republic	504	OM	15	28
Slovenia	499	S5	15	28
Sovereign Military Order of Malta	246	1A	15	28
Spain	281	EA	14	37
Svalbard	259	JW	40	18
Sweden	284	SM	14	18
Switzerland	287	HB	14	28
Ukraine	288	UR	16	29
Vatican	295	HV	15	28
Wales	294	GW	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).