Amateur Radio Country Prefix List

Use the first letters of the callsign to see where that rare DX has come from.

Amateur Radio Country Prefix List
PREFIX	COUNTRY	CQ-ZONE	ITU-ZONE
A2	Botswana	38	57
A3	Tonga Island	32	62
A4	Oman & Muscat	21	39
A5	Bhutan	22	41
A6	United Arab Emirates	21	39
A7	Qatar	21	39
A9	Bahrain	21	39
AP, AS	Pakistan	21	41
BS7	Scarborough Reef	27	50
BV	Taiwan	24	44
BV9P	Pratas	24	44
BX, BZ	China	23, 24	42, 43, 44
C2	Republic of Nauru	31	65
C3	Andorra	14	27
C5	Gambia	35	46
C6	Bahamas	08	11
C9	Mozambique	37	53
CE	Chili	12	14, 15, 16
CE9, KC4	Antarctica	13	73
CEo	Easter Island	12	63
CEo	San Felix Island	12	14
CEo	Juan Fernandez Island	12	14
CM, CO	Cuba	08	11
CN	Morocco	33	37
CP	Bolivia	12	12, 13, 14
CT	Portugal	14	37
CT3	Madeira Island	33	36
CU	Azores Island	14	36
CV-CX	Uruguay	13	14
CYo	Sable Island	05	09
CY9	St Paul Island	05	09
D2, D3	Angola	36	52
D4	Republic of Cape Verde	35	46
D6	Comoros	39	53
DA, DM & Y	Germany	14	28
DU, DZ	Philippines	27	50
E3	Erythrea	37	48
E4	Palestine	20	39
EA, EH	Spain	14	37
EA6, EH6	Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca)	14	37
EA8, EH8	Canary Island	33	36
EA9, EH9	Ceuta & Melilla	33	37
EI, EJ	Ireland	14	27
EK	Armenia	21	29
EL	Liberia	35	46
EP, EQ	Iran	21	40
ER	Moldova	16	29
ES	Estonia	15	29
ET	Ethiopia	37	48
EU, EV, EW	Belarus	16	29
EX	Kyrgystan	17	30, 31
EY	Tajikistan	17	30
EZ	Turkmenistan	17	30
FA, FF & TM	France	14	27
FG	Guadeloupe	08	11
FH	Mayotte	39	53
FJ, FS	French St Martin	08	11
FK	New Caledonia	32	56
FM	Martinique	08	11
FO	French Polynesia	32	63
FOo	Clipperton Island	07	10
FOo	Marquesas	31	63
FOo	Austral Island	32	63
FP	St Pierre & Miquelon	05	09
FR	Reunion	39	53
FR/J	Juan de Nova	39	53
FR/G	Glorioso	39	53
FR/T	Tromelin	39	53
FT8W	Crozet Island	39	68
FT8X	Kerguelen Island	39	68
FT8Z	Amsterdam & St Paul Island	39	68
FW	Wallis & Futuna Island	32	62
FY	French Guiana	09	12
G, GX, M	England	14	27
GD, GT, MD	Isle of Man	14	27
GI, GN, MI	Northern Ireland	14	27
GJ, GH, MJ	Jersey	14	27
GM, GS, MM	Scotland	14	27
GU, GP, MU	Guernsey	14	27
GW, GC, MW	Wales	14	27
H4	Solomon Island	28	51
H4o	Temotu Province	32	51
HA, HG	Hungary	14	28
HB	Switserland	14	28
HBo	Liechtenstein	14	28
HC, HD	Ecuador	10	12
HC8, HD8	Galapagos Island	10	12
HH	Haiti	08	11
HI	Dominican Republic	08	11
HK, HJ	Colombia	09	12
HKoM	Malpelo Island	09	12
HKoS	San Andres & Providencia	07	11
HL, HM, DS	South Korea	25	44
HP, HO, 3E	Panama	07	11
HR, HQ	Honduras	07	11
HS, E2	Thailand	26	49
HV	Vatican	15	28
HZ, 7Z	Saudi Arabia	21	39
I, IA, IZ	Italy	15, 33	28, 37
ISo, IMo	Sardinia	15	28
J2	Djibouti	37	48
J3	Grenada	08	11
J5	Guinea Bissau	35	46
J6	St Lucia	08	11
J7	Dominica	08	11
J8	St. Vincent	08	11
JA, JS	Japan	25	45
JD1M	Minami Torishima	27	90
JD1O	Ogasawara	27	45
JT, JV	Mongolia	23	32
JW	Svalbard Island	40	18
JX	Jan Mayen Island	40	18
JY	Jordan	20	39
K, W, N, AA, AK	USA	3, 4, 5	6, 7, 8
T8, KC6	West Caroline Island Belau	27	64
KG4	Guantanamo Bay	08	11
KH1	Baker & Howland Island	31	61
KH2	Guam	27	64
KH3	Johnston Island	31	61
KH4	Midway Island	31	61
KH5	Palmyra & Jarvis Island	31	61, 62
KH5K	Kingman Reef	31	61
KH6, KH7	Hawaii Island	31	61
KH7K	Kure Island	31	61
KH8	American Samoa	32	62
KH9	Wake Island	31	65
KH0	Mariana Island	27	64
KL7	Alaska	01	01, 02
KP1	Navassa Island	08	11
KP2	Virgin Island	08	11
KP3, KP4	Puerto Rico	08	11
KP5	Desecheo Island	08	11
LA, LN	Norway	14	18
L, LU, LW	Argentina	13	14, 15, 16
LX	Luxembourg	14	27
LY	Lithuania	15	29
LZ	Bulgaria	20	28
OA, OC	Peru	10	12
OD	Lebanon	20	39
OE	Austria	15	28
OG, OH, OI	Finland	15	18
OHo	Aland Island	15	18
OJo, OHoM	Market Reef	15	18
OK, OL	Czech Republic	15	28
OM	Slovak Republic	15	28
ON, OT	Belgium	14	27
OX	Greenland	40	05, 75
OY	Faroe Island	14	18
OZ	Denmark	14	28
P2	Papua New Guinea	28	51
P4	Aruba	09	11
P5	North Korea	25	44
PA, PB, PD, PE, PI	The Netherlands	14	27
PJ2, 4, 9	Netherland Antilles Bonaire, Curacao	09	11
PJ7, 5, 8	St Maarten, Saba, St Eustatius	08	11
PP, PY	Brazil	11	12, 13, 14 ,15
PPo, PYoF	Fernando de Noronha	11	13
PPo, PYoS	St Peter & St Paul's Rocks	11	13
PPo, PYoT	Trindade & Martim Vaz. Island	11	15
PZ	Surinam	09	12
R1FJ	Franz Josef Land	40	75
R1MV	Malyj Vysotskij Island	16	29
S2	Bangladesh	22	41
S5	Slovenia	15	28
S7	Seychelles	39	53
S9	Sao Tome & Principe	36	47
So	Western Sahara	33	46
SA, SM	Sweden	14	18
SN, SR, 3Z	Poland	15	28
ST	Sudan	34	48
SU	Egypt	34	38
SV, SZ, J4	Greece	20	28
SV5, J45	Dodecanese	20	28
SV9, J49	Crete	20	28
SV2A, SY	Mount Athos	20	28
T2	Tuvalu	31	65
T3o	West Kiribati	31	65
T31	Central Kiribati	31	62
T32	East Kiribati	31	61, 62, 63
T33	Banaba Island	31	65
T5, 6O	Somalia	37	48
T7	San Marino	15	28
T9	Bosnia - Herzegovina	15	28
TA, TB, TC	Turkey	20	39
TF	Iceland	40	17
TG, TD	Guatemala	07	11
TI, TE	Costa Rica	07	11
TI9	Cocos Island	07	11
TJ	Cameroon	36	47
TK	Corsica	15	28
TL	Central African Republic	36	47
TN	Congo	36	52
TR	Gabon	36	52
TT	Chad	36	47
TU	Ivory Coast	35	46
TY	Benin	35	46
TX	Chesterfield Islands	39	53
TZ	Mali	35	46
UA,1,3, 4, 6, RA - RZ	European Russia	16	19, 29, 30
UA2, RW2	Kaliningrad	15	29
UA-UI,8,9, o, RA - RZ	Asiatic Russia	16, 17, 18, 19	21, 27, 30, 33
UJ, UM	Uzbekistan	17	30
UN, UQ	Kazakhstan	17	29,30,31
UR, UZ EM, EO	Ukraine	16	29
V2	Antigua & Barbuda	08	11
V3	Belize	07	11
V4	St Kits, Nevis	08	11
V5	Namibia	38	57
V6	Micronesia	27	65
V7	Marshall Island	31	65
V8	Brunei	28	54
VE, VC, VO, VY, CI	Canada	01, 05	02, 09
VK	Australia	29, 30	55, 58, 59
VK9C	Cocos Keeling Island	29	54
VK9L	Lord Howe Island	30	60
VK9M	Mellish Reef	30	56
VK9N	Norfolk Island	32	60
VK9W	Willis Island	30	55
VK9X	Christmas Island	29	54
VKo	Heard Island	39	68
VKo	Macquarie Island	30	60
VP2E	Anguilla	08	11
VP2M	Montserrat	08	11
VP2V	British Virgin Island	08	11
VP5	Turks & Caicos Island	08	11
VP6	Pitcairn Island	32	63
VP8	Falkland Islands	13	16
VP8, LU	South Georgia, South Orkney, South Sandwich Islands	13	73
VP8, LU, HFo, CE9	South Shetland Island	13	73
VP9	Bermuda	05	11
VQ9	Chagos	39	41
VS6, VR2	Hong Kong	24	44
VU	India	22	41
VU4	Andaman & Nicobar Island	26	49
VU7	Laccadive Island	22	41
XA, XI	Mexico	06	10
XA4, XI4	Revilla Gigedo	06	10
XT	Burkino Fasso	35	46
XU	Kampuchea	26	49
XW	Laos	26	49
XX9	Macao	24	44
XZ, XY	Myanmar	26	49
YA	Afghanistan	21	40
YB, YH	Indonesia	28	51, 52, 53, 54
YI	Iraq	21	39
YJ	Vanuatu	32	56
YK	Syria	20	39
YL	Latvia	15	29
YN	Nicaragua	07	11
YO, YR	Romania	20	28
YS	ElSalvador	07	11
YU, YT, YZ, 4N, 4O	Yugoslavia	15	28
YV, YY	Venezuela	09	12
YVo	Aves Island	08	11
Z2	Zimbabwe	38	53
Z3	Macedonia	15	28
ZA	Albania	15	28
ZB2	Gibraltar	14	37
ZC4	British Base on Cyprus	20	39
ZD7	St Helena	36	66
ZD8	Ascension Island	36	66
ZD9	Tristan Da Cunha & Gough Island	38	66
ZF	Cayman Island	08	11
ZK1N	North Cook Island	32	62
ZK1S	South Cook Island	32	62
ZK2	Niue	32	62
ZK3	Tokelau	31	62
ZL, ZM	New Zealand	32	60
ZL7	Chatham Island	32	60
ZL8	Kermadec Island	32	60
ZL9	Auckland & Campbell Island	32	60
ZP	Paraguay	11	14
ZR, ZU	South Africa	38	57
ZS8	Marion & Prince Edward Island	38	57

By Number

Number allocations always have that hint of DX about them.

PREFIX	COUNTRY	CQ-ZONE	ITU-ZONE
1A	Military Order of Malta	15	28
1S, 9Mo	Spratly Island	26	50
3A	Monaco	14	27
3B6, 3B7	Agalega & St Brandon	39	53
3B8	Mauritius	39	53
3B9	Rodrigues Island	39	53
3C	Equatorial Guinea	36	47
3Co	Annobon Island	36	52
3D2	Fiji Island	32	56
3D2C	Conway Reef	32	56
3D2R	Rotuma Island	32	56
3DAo, 3D6	Swaziland	38	57
3V	Tunisia	33	37
3W, XV	Vietnam	26	49
3X	Guinea	35	46
3Y5	Bouvet	38	67
3Yo	Peter Island	12	72
4K, 4J	Azerbaidjan	21	29
4L	Georgia	21	29
4P, 4S	Srilanka	22	41
4U1ITU	ITU Geneva	14	28
4U1UN	United Nations HQ	05	08
4W	East Timor	28	54
4X, 4Z	Israel	20	39
5A	Libya	34	38
5B, C4, P3	Cyprus	20	39
5H, 5I	Tanzania	37	53
5N, 5O	Nigeria	35	46
5R, 5S	Madagascar	39	53
5T	Mauritania	35	46
5U	Niger	35	46
5V	Togo	35	46
5W	Western Samoa	32	62
5X	Uganda	37	48
5Y, 5Z	Kenya	37	48
6V, 6W	Senegal	35	46
6Y	Jamaica	08	11
7O	People's Republic Of Yemen	21	39
7P	Lesotho	38	57
7Q	Malawi	37	53
7T, 7Y	Algeria	33	37
8P	Barbados	08	11
8Q	Maldives	22	41
8R	Guyana	09	12
9A	Croatia	15	28
9G	Ghana	35	46
9H	Malta	15	28
9J, 9I	Zambia	36	53
9K	Kuwait	21	39
9L	Sierra Leone	35	46
9M2, 4	West Malaysia	28	54
9M6, 8	East Malaysia	28	54
9N	Nepal	22	42
9Q, 9T	Republic of Congo	36	52
9U	Burundi	36	52
9V	Singapore	28	54
9X	Rwanda	36	52
9Y, 9Z	Trinidad & Tobago	09	11