Postwar Countries List
Official List for ARRL DX Contest and the Postwar DXCC
From QST, February 1947, pp. 49 – 50
MANY of the DX men have been at a loss to appraise accurately their postwar DX accomplishments because the last revised Countries List was made up back in 1939 and, since that time, many areas have been shuffled about and postwar stations have cropped up in locations never before considered. To reach as satisfactory a revision as possible, a committee made up of G2MI for the R.S.G.B. slant, W6QD and his advisory group of several prominent W6s, and a five-man ARRL Headquarters group has been collaborating during the past few months to revise the list and polish off the rough edges. A number of changes have been made, but they have been made almost unanimously, so it is felt that the present list is a good cross-section of opinion. A careful check of the list will show that a number of countries have been added, and that several have been deleted or combined.
Naturally there will be some difference of opinion by some of the DX men, and the collaborators will be pleased to entertain any criticisms.
In the meantime, it becomes your yardstick in the ARRL DX Contests and DXCC.
Aden and Socotra Island ......................... VS9
Afghanistan ...................................... YA
Alaska .......................................... KL7
Albania .......................................... ZA
Aldabra Islands .................................
Algeria .......................................... FA
Andaman Ids. and Nicobar Ids. ...................
Andorra .......................................... PX
Anglo Egyptian Sudan ............................. ST
Angola .......................................... CR6
Argentina ........................................ LU
Ascension Island ................................ ZD8
Australia (including Tasmania) ................... VK
Austria .......................................... OE
Azores Islands .................................. CT2
Bahama Islands .................................. VP7
Bahrein Island .................................. VU7
Baker Island, Howland Island and Am. Phoenix
Islands ....................................... KB6
Balearic Islands ................................ EA6
Barbados ........................................ VP6
Basutoland ...................................... ZS4
Bechuanaland ....................................
Belgian Congo .................................... OQ
Belgium .......................................... ON
Bermuda Islands ................................. VP9
Bhutan ..........................................
Bolivia .......................................... CP
Bonin Island and Volcano
Islands (e.g., Iwo Jima) ......................
Borneo, British North ........................... VS4
Borneo, Netherlands ............................. PK5
Brazil ........................................... PY
British Honduras ................................ VP1
Brunei .......................................... VS5
Bulgaria ......................................... LZ
Burma ............................................ XZ
Cameroons, French ............................... FE8
Canada ........................................... VE
Canal Zone ...................................... KZ5
Canary Islands .................................. EA8
Cape Verde Islands .............................. CR4
Caroline Islands ................................
Cayman Islands .................................. VP5
Celebes and Molucca Islands ..................... PK6
Ceylon .......................................... VS7
Chagos Islands .................................. VQ8
Channel Islands .................................. GC
Chile ............................................ CE
China ......................................... XU, C
Christmas Island ................................ ZC3
Clipperton Island ...............................
Cocos Island ..................................... TI
Cocos Islands ................................... ZC2
Columbia ......................................... HK
Comoro Islands ..................................
Cook Islands .................................... ZK1
Corsica .........................................
Costa Rica ....................................... TI
Crete ............................................ SV
Cuba .......................................... CM-CO
Cyprus .......................................... ZC4
Czechoslovakia ................................... OK
Denmark .......................................... OZ
Dodecanese Islands (e.g., Rhodes) ............... SV5
Dominican Rebublic ............................... HI
Easter Island ...................................
Ecuador .......................................... HC
Egypt ............................................ SU
Eire (Irish Free State) .......................... EI
England ........................................... G
Eritrea .......................................... I6
Ethiopia ......................................... ET
Faeroes, The ..................................... OY
Falkland Islands ................................ VP8
Fanning Island (Christmas Island) ............... VR3
Fiji Islands .................................... VR2
Finland .......................................... OH
Formosa (Taiwan) ................................
France ............................................ F
French Equatorial Africa ........................ FQ8
French India ..................................... FN
French Indo-China ............................... FI8
French Oceania (e.g., Tahiti) ................... FO8
French West Africa .............................. FF8
Fridtjof Nansen Land (Frans Josef Land) .........
Galapagos Islands ...............................
Gambia .......................................... ZD3
Germany ........................................... D
Gibraltar ....................................... ZB2
Gilbert and Ellis Islands and Ocean Island ...... VR1
Goa (Portuguese India) .......................... CR8
Gold Coast (and British Togoland) ............... ZD4
Greece ........................................... SV
Greenland ........................................ OX
Guadeloupe ...................................... FG8
Guantanamo Bay .................................. NY4
Guatemala ........................................ TG
Guiana, British ................................. VP3
Guiana, Netherlands (Surinam) .................... PZ
Guiana, French, and Inini ....................... FY8
Guinea, Portuguese .............................. CR5
Guinea, Spanish .................................
Haiti ............................................ HH
Hawaiian Islands ................................ KH6
Honduras ......................................... HR
Hong Kong ....................................... VS6
Hungary .......................................... HA
Iceland .......................................... TF
Ifni .............................................
India ............................................ VU
Iran .......................................... EP-EQ
Iraq ............................................. YI
Ireland, Northern ................................ GI
Italy ............................................. I
Jamaica ......................................... VP5
Jan Mayen Island ................................
Japan ............................................. J
Jarvis Island, Palmyra group (Christmas Island) . KP6
Java ............................................. PK
Johnston Island ................................. KJ6
Kenya ........................................... VQ4
Kerguelen Islands ...............................
Korea ...........................................
Kuwait ..........................................
Laccadive Islands ...............................
Leeward Islands ................................. VP2
Liberia .......................................... EL
Libya .......................................... (LI)
Liechtenstein ................................... HE1
Little America .................................. KC4
Luxembourg ....................................... LX
Macau ........................................... CR9
Madagascar ...................................... FB8
Madeira Islands ................................. CT3
Malaya ..................................... VS1, VS2
Maldive Islands .................................
Malta ........................................... ZB1
Manchuria .......................................
Marianas Islands (Guam) ......................... KG6
Marshall Islands ................................
Martinique ...................................... FM8
Mauritius ....................................... VQ8
Mexico ........................................... XE
Midway Island ................................... KM6
Miquelon and St. Pierre Islands ................. FP8
Monaco ..........................................
Mongolia ........................................
Morocco, French .................................. CN
Morocco, Spanish ................................ EA9
Mozambique ...................................... CR7
Nepal ...........................................
Netherlands ...................................... PA
Netherlands West Indies .......................... PJ
New Caledonia ................................... FK8
Newfoundland and Labrador ........................ VO
New Guinea, Netherlands ......................... PK6
New Guinea, Territory of ........................ VK9
New Hebrides ................................ FU8, YJ
New Zealand ...................................... ZL
Nicaragua ........................................ YN
Nigeria ......................................... ZD2
Niue ............................................ ZK2
Norway ........................................... LA
Nyasaland ....................................... ZD6
Oman ............................................
Palau (Pelew) Islands ...........................
Palestine ....................................... ZC6
Panama ........................................... HP
Papua Territory ................................. VK4
Paraguay ......................................... ZP
Peru ............................................. OA
Philippine Islands .............................. KA1
Phoenix Islands (British) .......................
Pitcairn Island ................................. VR6
Poland ........................................... SP
Portugal ......................................... CT
Principe and Sao Tome Islands ...................
Puerto Rico ..................................... KP4
Reunion Island .................................. FR8
Rhodesia, Northern .............................. VQ2
Rhodesia, Southern ............................... ZE
Rio de Oro ......................................
Roumania ......................................... YR
Ryukyu Islands (e.g., Okinawa) ..................
St. Helena ...................................... ZD7
Salvador ......................................... YS
Samoa, American ................................. KS6
Samoa, Western ................................... ZM
Sarawak ......................................... VS5
Sardinia ........................................
Saudi Arabia (Hedjaz and Nejd) ................... HZ
Scotland ......................................... GM
Seychelles ...................................... VQ9
Siam ............................................. HS
Sierra Leone .................................... ZD1
Sikkim ........................................ (AC3)
Solomon Islands ................................. VR4
Somaliland, British ............................. VQ6
Somaliland, French .............................. FL8
Somaliland, Italian .............................
South Georgia ................................... VP8
South Orkney Islands ............................ VP8
South Sandwich Islands .......................... VP8
South Shetland Islands .......................... VP8
Southwest Africa ................................ ZS3
Soviet Union:
European Russian Socialist
Federated Soviet Republic ............. UA1-3-4-6
Asiatic S.F.S.R. ............................ UA9-0
Ukraine ....................................... UB5
White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic ....... UC5
Azerbaijan .................................... UD6
Georgia ....................................... UF6
Armenia ....................................... UG6
Turkoman ...................................... UH8
Uzbek ......................................... UI8
Tadzhik ....................................... UJ8
Kazakh ........................................ UL7
Kirghiz ....................................... UM8
Karelo-Finnish Republic ....................... UN1
Moldavia ...................................... UO5
Lithuania ...................................... UP
Latvia ......................................... UQ
Estonia ........................................ UR
Spain ............................................ EA
Sumatra ......................................... PK4
Svalbard (Spitzbergen) ..........................
Swan Island ..................................... KS4
Swaziland .......................................
Sweden ........................................... SM
Switzerland ...................................... HB
Syria .......................................... (AR)
Tanganyika Territory ............................ VQ3
Tangier Zone ..................................... EK
Tannu Tuva ......................................
Tibet ........................................... AC4
Timor, Portuguese .............................. CR10
Togoland, French ................................ FD8
Tokelau (Union) Islands .........................
Tonga (Friendly) Islands ........................ VR5
Trans-Jordan .................................... ZC1
Trieste .........................................
Trinidad and Tobago ............................. VP4
Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island ............... ZD9
Tunisia ......................................... FT4
Turkey ........................................... TA
Turks and Caicos Islands ........................ VP5
Uganda .......................................... VQ5
Union of South Africa ............................ ZS
United States of America ....................... W, K
Uruguay .......................................... CX
Venezuela ........................................ YV
Virgin Islands .................................. KV4
Wake Island ..................................... KW6
Wales ............................................ GW
Windward Islands ................................ VP2
Wrangel Islands .................................
Yemen ...........................................
Yugoslavia .................................... YT-YU
Zanzibar ........................................ VQ1
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