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North America

North America holds 50 current DX entities and 6 deleted ones in the DXCC list.

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Figure 1. North America: 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: North America Lambert conformal conic (ESRI:102009, on WGS 84).

Current entities

Entity	DXCC	Prefix	CQ zone	ITU zone
Alaska	006	KL	1	1, 2
Anguilla	012	VP2E	8	11
Antigua and Barbuda	094	V2	8	11
Aves Island	017	YV0	8	11
Bahamas	060	C6	8	11
Barbados	062	8P	8	11
Belize	066	V3	7	11
Bermuda	064	VP9	5	11
British Virgin Islands	065	VP2V	8	11
Canada	001	VE	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	2, 3, 4, 9
Cayman Islands	069	ZF	8	11
Clipperton Island	036	FO	7	10
Cocos Island	037	TI9	7	11, 12
Costa Rica	308	TI	7	11
Cuba	070	CM	8	11
Desecheo Island	043	KP5	8	11
Dominica	095	J7	8	11
Dominican Republic	072	HI	8	11
El Salvador	074	YS	7	11
Greenland	237	OX	40	5, 75
Grenada	077	J3	8	11
Guadeloupe	079	FG	8	11
Guantanamo Bay	105	KG4	8	11
Guatamala	076	TG	7	11, 12
Haiti	078	HH	8	11

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
Bajo Nuevo	019	the start of DXCC	17 September 1981	8	11
Canal Zone	028	the start of DXCC	1 October 1979	7	11
Newfoundland, Labrador	186	the start of DXCC	1 April 1949	2, 5	9
Serrana Bank and Roncador Cay	228	the start of DXCC	17 September 1981	7	11
St Maarten, Saba, St Eustatius	255	the start of DXCC	10 October 2010	8	11
Swan Islands	261	the start of DXCC	1 September 1972	7	11

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).