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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
Timor-Leste	511	4W	28	54
Tokelau Islands	270	ZK3	31	62
Tonga	160	A3	32	62
Tuvalu	282	T2	31	65
Vanuatu	158	YJ	32	56
Wake Island	297	KH9	31	65
Wallis and Futuna Islands	298	FW	32	62
West Kiribati ( Gilbert Islands)	301	T30	31	65
Willis Island	303	VK9W	30	55

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).