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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
Honduras	080	HR	7	11
Jamaica	082	6Y	8	11
Martinique	084	FM	8	11
Mexico	050	XE	6	10
Montserrat	096	VP2M	8	11
Navassa Island	182	KP1	8	11
Nicaragua	086	YN	7	11
Panama	088	HP	7	11
Puerto Rico	202	KP4	8	11
Revillagiegedo	204	XF4	6	10
Saba and St Eustatius	519	PJ5	8	11
Sable Island	211	CY0	5	9
Saint Barthelemy	516	FJ	8	11
Saint Martin	213	FS	8	11
San Andres and Providencia	216	HK0	7	11
Sint Maarten	518	PJ7	8	11
St Kitts and Nevis	249	V4	8	11
St Lucia	097	J6	8	11
St Paul Island	252	CY9	5	9
St Pierre and Miquelon	277	FP	5	9
St Vincent	098	J8	8	11
Turks and Caicos Islands	089	VP5	8	11
United Nations Headquarters	289	4U1U	5	8
United States of America	291	K	3, 4, 5	6, 7, 8
Virgin Islands	285	KP2	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).