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Oceania

Oceania holds 59 current DX entities and 12 deleted ones in the DXCC list.

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Figure 1. Oceania: 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 15° S 175° E.

Current entities

Entity	DXCC	Prefix	CQ zone	ITU zone
Mariana Islands	166	KH0	27	64
Marquesas Islands	509	FO	31	63
Marshall Islands	168	V7	31	65
Mellish Reef	171	VK9M	30	56
Micronesia	173	V6	27	65
Midway Island	174	KH4	31	61
Minami Torishima	177	JD	27	90
Nauru	157	C2	31	65
New Caledonia	162	FK	32	56
New Zealand	170	ZL	32	60
New Zealand Subantarctic Islands	016	ZL9	32	60
Niue	188	E6	32	62
Norfolk Island	189	VK9N	32	60
North Cook Island	191	E5	32	62
Palau	022	T8	27	64
Palmyra and Jarvis Islands	197	KH5	31	61, 62
Papua New Guinea	163	P2	28	51
Phillipines	375	DU	27	50
Pitcairn Island	172	VP6	32	63
Rotuma Island	460	3D2	32	56
Samoa	190	5W	32	62
Solomon Islands	185	H4	28	51
South Cook Island	234	E5	32	62, 63
Swains Island	515	KH8	32	62
Temotu Province	507	H40	32	51

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
British North Borneo	025	the start of DXCC	16 September 1963	28	54
Celebe and Molucca Islands	030	the start of DXCC	1 May 1963	28	54
Java	119	the start of DXCC	1 May 1963	28	54
Kingman Reef	134	the start of DXCC	30 March 2016	31	61
Minerva Reef	178	the start of DXCC	16 July 1972	32	62
Netherlands Borneo	183	the start of DXCC	1 May 1963	28	54
Netherlands New Guinea	184	the start of DXCC	1 May 1963	28	51
Papua Territory	198	the start of DXCC	16 September 1975	28	51
Portuguese Timor	200	the start of DXCC	15 September 1976	28	54
Sarawak	220	the start of DXCC	16 September 1963	28	54
Sumatra	258	the start of DXCC	1 May 1963	28	54
Territory of New Guinea	267	the start of DXCC	16 September 1975	28	51

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).