Updated Jan 2011 (arrl new list)

First letter figure in the main prefix

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Deleted Entities

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	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
		Spratly Is.	AS	26	50
	1A0KM	Sovereign Military Order of Malta	EU	15	28
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	3A	Monaco	EU	14	27
	3B6 ,  7	Agalega and St. Brandon Is.	AF	39	53
	3B8	Mauritius	AF	39	53
	3B9	Rodriguez Is.	AF	39	53
	3C	Equatorial Guinea	AF	36	47
	3C0	Annobon Is.	AF	36	52
	3D2	Fiji	OC	32	56
	3D2	Rotuma Is.	OC	32	56
	3D2	Conway Reef	OC	32	56
	3DA	Swaziland	AF	38	57
	3V	Tunisia	AF	33	37
	3W, XV	Vietnam	AS	26	49
	3X	Guinea	AF	35	46
	3Y	Bouvet Is.	AF	38	67
	3Y	Peter 1 Is.	AN	12	72
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	4J ,  4K	Azerbaijan	AS	21	29
	4L	Georgia	AS	21	29
	4O	Montenegro	EU	15	28
	4P  -  4S	Sri Lanka	AS	22	41
	4U_ITU	ITU HQ Geneva	EU	14	28
	4U_UN	U.N. Headquarters N.Y.	NA	5	8
	4W	Timor Leste	OC	28	54
	4X,   4Z	Israel	AS	20	39
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	5A	Libya	AF	34	38
	5B	Cyprus	AS	20	39
	5H  -  5I	Tanzania	AF	37	53
	5N  -  5O	Nigeria	AF	35	46
	5R  -  5S	Madagascar	AF	39	53
	5T	Mauritania	AF	35	46
	5U	Niger	AF	35	46
	5V	Togo	AF	35	46
	5W	Western Samoa	OC	32	62
	5X	Uganda	AF	37	48
	5Y  - 5Z	Kenya	AF	37	48
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	6V - 6W	Senegal	AF	35	46
	6Y	Jamaica	NA	8	11
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	7O	Yemen	AS	21 / 37	39
	7P	Lesotho	AF	38	57
	7Q	Malawi	AF	37	53
	7T - 7Y	Algeria	AF	33	37
--	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	8P	Barbados	NA	8	11
	8Q	Maldive Is.	AS	22 / 39	41
	8R	Guyana	SA	9	12
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	9A	Croatia	EU	15	28
	9G	Ghana	AF	35	46
	9H	Malta	EU	15	28
	9I  -  9J	Zambia	AF	36	53
	9K	Kuwait	AS	21	39
	9L	Sierra Leone	AF	35	46
	9M2,   4	West Malaysia	AS	28	54
	9M6,   8	East Malaysia	OC	28	54
	9N	Nepal	AS	22	42
	9Q	Dem. Rep. of  Congo	AF	36	52
	9U	Burundi	AF	36	52
	9V	Singapore	AS	28	54
	9X	Rwanda	AF	36	52
	9Y - 9Z	Trinidad & Tobago	SA	9	11
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	A2	Botswana	AF	38	57
	A3	Tonga	OC	32	62
	A4	Oman	AS	21	39
	A5	Bhutan	AS	22	41
	A6	United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.)	AS	21	39
	A7	Qatar	AS	21	39
	A9	Bahrain	AS	21	39
	AP  -  AS	Pakistan	AS	21	41
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	BS7	Scarborough Reef	AS	27	50
	BV	Taiwan	AS	24	44
	BV9P	Pratas I.	AS	24	44
	BY,  BT	China	AS	23 / 24	33 / 42 / 44
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	C2	Nauru	OC	31	65
	C3	Andorra	EU	14	27
	C5	Gambia	AF	35	46
	C6	Bahamas	NA	8	11
	C8 -  C9	Mozambique	AF	37	53
	CA - CE	Chile	SA	12	14 /16
	CE0	San Felix & San Ambrosio Is.	SA	12	14
	CE0	Easter Is.	SA	12	63
	CE0	Juan Fernandez Is.	SA	12	14
	CE9 / KC4	Antarctica	AN	12 / 13 / 29 / 30 / 31 / 38 / 39	67 / 69 - 74
	CM,   CO	Cuba	NA	8	11
	CN	Morocco	AF	33	37
	CP	Bolivia	SA	10	12 / 14
	CT	Portugal	EU	14	37
	CT3	Madeira Is.	AF	33	36
	CU	Azores Is.	AF	14	36
	CV  -  CX	Uruguay	SA	13	14
	CY0	Sable I.	NA	5	9
	CY9	St. Paul I.	NA	5	9
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	D2  -  3	Angola	AF	36	52
	D4	Cape Verde	AF	35	46
	D6	Comoros	AF	39	53
	DA - DL	Fed. Rep. of Germany	EU	14	28
	DU - DZ	Philippines	OC	27	50
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	E3	Eritrea	AF	37	48
	E4	Palestine	AS	20	29
	E51	Northern Cook Is.	OC	32	62 / 63
	E51	(Southern) Cook Is.	OC	32	62 / 63
	E7	Bosnia - Herzegovina	EU	15	28
	EA -  EH	Spain	EU	14	37
	EA6 - EH6	Balearic Is.	EU	14	37
	EA8 -  EH8	Canary Is.	AF	33	36
	EA9 -  EH9	Ceuta & Melilla	AF	33	37
	EI - EJ	Ireland	EU	14	27
	EK	Armenia	AS	21	29
	EL	Liberia	AF	35	46
	EP - EQ	Iran	AS	21	40
	ER	Moldova	EU	16	29
	ES	Estonia	EU	15	29
	ET	Ethiopia	AF	37	48
	EU,  EV,  EW	Belarus	EU	16	29
	EX	Kyrgyzstan	AS	17	30 / 31
	EY	Tadzhikistan	AS	17	30
	EZ	Turkmeniya	AS	17	30
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	F	France	EU	14	27
	FG	Guadeloupe	NA	8	11
	FH	Mayotte	AF	39	53
	FJ	St. Barthelemy	NA	8	11
	FK	New Caledonia	OC	32	56
	FK/C	Chesterfield Is.	OC	30	56
	FM	Martinique	NA	8	11
	FO	French Polynesia	OC	32	63
	FO	Austral Is.	OC	32	63
	FO	Marquesas Is.	OC	31	63
	FO0	Clipperton I.	NA	7	10
	FP	St. Pierre & Miquelon	NA	5	9
	FR	Reunion Is.	AF	39	53
	FR/G	Glorioso Is.	AF	39	53
	FR/ J,   E	Europa & Juan da Nova Is.	AF	39	53
	FR/ T	Tromelin Is.	AF	39	53
	FS	St. Martin	NA	8	11
	FT8W	Crozet Is.	AF	39	68
	FT8X	Kerguelen Is.	AF	39	68
	FT8Z	Amsterdam I. and St. Paul I.	AF	39	68
	FW	Wallis & Futuna Is.	OC	32	62
	FY	French Guiana	SA	9	12
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	G,   GX	England	EU	14	27
	GD,  GT	Isle of Man	EU	14	27
	GI ,  GN	Northern Ireland	EU	14	27
	GJ,  GH	Jersey	EU	14	27
	GM,  GS	Scotland	EU	14	27
	GU,   GP	Guernsey	EU	14	27
	GW,  GC	Wales	EU	14	27
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	H4	Solomon Is.	OC	28	51
	H40	Temotu Province	OC	32	51
	HA,  HG	Hungary	EU	15	28
	HB	Switzerland	EU	14	28
	HB0	Liechtenstein	EU	14	28
	HC -  HD	Ecuador	SA	10	12
	HC8 -  HD8	Galapagos Is.	SA	10	12
	HH	Haiti	NA	8	11
	HI	Dominican Republic	NA	8	11
	HJ -  HK	Colombia	SA	9	12
	HK0	San Andres and Providencia	NA	7	11
	HK0	Malpelo Is.	SA	9	12
	HL	South Korea	AS	25	44
	HO -  HP	Panama	NA	7	11
	HQ -  HR	Honduras	NA	7	11
	HS,    E2	Thailand	AS	26	49
	HV	Vatican	EU	15	28
	HZ	Saudi Arabia	AS	21	39
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	I	Italy	EU	15	28
	IS,  IM	Sardinia	EU	15	28
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	J2	Djibouti	AF	37	48
	J3	Grenada	NA	8	11
	J5	Guinea-Bissau	AF	35	46
	J6	St. Lucia	NA	8	11
	J7	Dominica	NA	8	11
	J8	St. Vincent & Dependencies	NA	8	11
	JA -  JS	Japan	AS	25	45
	JD1	Minami Tori Shima Is.	OC	27	90
	JD1	Ogasawara Is.	AS	25	45
	JT  -  JV	Mongolia	AS	23	31 / 32 / 33
	JW	Svalbard	EU	40	18 / 75
	JX	Jan Mayen	EU	40	18
	JY	Jordan	AS	20	39
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	K,   W,    N	United States of America	NA	3 / 4 / 5	6 / 7 / 8
	KC6,   T8	Palau	OC	27	64
	KG4	Guantanamo Bay	NA	8	11
	KH0	Mariana Is.	OC	27	64
	KH1	Baker & Howland Is.	OC	31	61
	KH2	Guam	OC	27	64
	KH3	Johnston Is.	OC	31	61
	KH4	Midway Is.	OC	31	61
	KH5	Palmyra & Jarvis Is.	OC	31	61 / 62
	KH5K	Kingman Reef	OC	31	61
	KH6,  7	Hawaiian Is.	OC	31	61
	KH7K	Kure Is.	OC	31	61
	KH8	American Samoa	OC	32	62
	KH8	Swain`s Island	OC	31	62
	KH9	Wake Is.	OC	31	65
	KL7	Alaska	NA	1	1 / 2
	KP1	Navassa Is.	NA	8	11
	KP2	Virgin Is.	NA	8	11
	KP3,   4	Puerto Rico	NA	8	11
	KP5	Desecheo Is.	NA	8	11
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	LA - LN	Norway	EU	14	18
	LO -  LW	Argentina	SA	13	14 / 16
	LX	Luxembourg	EU	14	27
	LY	Lithuania	EU	15	29
	LZ	Bulgaria	EU	20	28
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	OA -  OC	Peru	SA	10	12
	OD	Lebanon	AS	20	39
	OE	Austria	EU	15	28
	OF  - OI	Finland	EU	15	18
	OH0	Aaland Is.	EU	15	18
	OJ0,   OH0M	Market Reef	EU	15	18
	OK - OL	Czech Republic	EU	15	28
	OM	Slovak Republic	EU	15	28
	ON  - OT	Belgium	EU	14	27
	OX	Greenland	NA	40	5 / 75
	OY	Faeroe Is.	EU	14	18
	OZ	Denmark	EU	14	18
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	P2	Papua New Guinea	OC	28	51
	P4	Aruba	SA	9	11
	P5	DPRK  North Korea	AS	25	44
	PA - PI	The Netherlands	EU	14	27
	PJ2	Curacao	SA	9	11
	PJ4	Bonaire	SA	9	11
	PJ 5 - 6	Saba, St. Eustatius	NA	8	11
	PJ7	St. Maarten	NA	8	11
	PP  - PY	Brazil	SA	11	12 / 13 / 15
	PP0  -  PY0F	Fernando da Noronha	SA	11	13
	PP0  -  PY0S	St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks	SA	11	13
	PP0  -  PY0T	Trindade, Martin Vaz Is.	SA	11	13 / 15
	PZ	Surinam	SA	9	12
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	R1FJ	Franz Josef Land	EU	40	20 / 75
	R1MV	Malyj Vysotskij Is.	EU	16	29
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	S0	Western Sahara	AF	33	46
	S2	Bangladesh	AS	22	41
	S5,   YU3	Slovenia	EU	15	28
	S7	Seychelles	AF	39	53
	S9	Sao Thome and Principe	AF	36	47
	SA  -  SM	Sweden	EU	14	18
	SN  - SR	Poland	EU	15	28
	ST	Sudan	AF	34	47 / 48
	SU	Egypt	AF	34	38
	SV - SZ	Greece	EU	20	28
	SV/A	Mount Athos	EU	20	28
	SV5	Dodecanese Is. (Rhodes)	EU	20	28
	SV9	Crete	EU	20	28
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	T2	Tuvalu	OC	31	65
	T30	West. Kiribati (Gilbert Is.)	OC	31	65
	T31	Central Kiribati (British Phoenix Is.)	OC	31	62
	T32	East. Kiribati (Line Is.)	OC	31	61 / 63
	T33	Banaba I.  (Ocean Is.)	OC	31	65
	T5	Somalia	AF	37	48
	T7	San Marino	EU	15	28
	TA - TC	Tyrkey	AS - EU	20	39
	TF	Iceland	EU	40	17
	TG,  TD	Guatemala	NA	7	11
	TI,  TE	Costa Rica	NA	7	11
	TI9	Cocos Is.	NA	7	12
	TJ	Cameroon	AF	36	47
	TK	Corsica	EU	15	28
	TL	Central Africa	AF	36	47
	TN	Congo	AF	36	52
	TR	Gabon	AF	36	52
	TT	Chad	AF	36	47
	TU	Cote D`Ivoire  (Ivory Coast)	AF	35	46
	TY	Benin	AF	35	46
	TZ	Mali	AF	35	46
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	UA2	Kaliningrad	EU	15	29
	UA-UI1,  3,  4,  6	European Russia	EU	16	19 / 20 /29 / 30
	UA - UI8,  9,  0	Asiatic Russia	AS	16 -19 /23	19 - 26/ 30-35 / 75
	UJ - UM	Uzbekistan	AS	17	30
	UN - UQ	Kazakhstan	AS	17	29 -NU I DAG ?? 31
	UR - UZ,    EM - EO	Ukraine	EU	16	29
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	V2	Antigua and Barbuda	NA	8	11
	V3	Belize	NA	7	11
	V4	St. Kitts and Nevis Is.	NA	8	11
	V5	Namibia	AF	38	57
	V6	Micronesia	OC	27	64 / 65
	V7	Marshall Is.	OC	31	65
	V8	Brunei	OC	28	54
	VE,   VO,   VY	Canad	NA	1 /2 / 3 /    4 / 5	2 - 4 / 9/ 75
	VK	Australia	OC	29-30	55 / 58 / 59
	VK0	Heard Is.	AF	39	68
	VK0	Macquarie Is.	OC	30	60
	VK9C	Cocos - Keeling Is.	OC	29	54
	VK9L	Lord Howe Is.	OC	30	60
	VK9M	Mellish Reef	OC	30	56
	VK9N	Norfolk Is.	OC	32	60
	VK9W	Willis Is.	OC	30	55
	VK9X	Christmas Is.	OC	29	54
	VP2E	Anguilla	NA	8	11
	VP2M	Montserrat	NA	8	11
	VP2V	British Virgin Is.	NA	8	11
	VP5	Turks and Caicos Is.	NA	8	11
	VP6	Pitcairn Is.	OC	32	63
	VP6	Ducie Is.	OC	32	63
	VP8	Falkland Is.	SA	13	16
	VP8,  LU	South Georgia Is.	SA	13	73
	VP8,  LU	South Orkney Is.	SA	13	73
	VP8,  LU	South Sandwich Is.	SA	13	73
	VP8,  LU	South Shetland Is.	SA	13	73
	VP9	Bermuda	NA	5	11
	VQ9	Chagos Is.	AF	39	41
	VS6,  VR2	Hongkong	AS	24	44
	VU	India	AS	22	41
	VU4	Andaman and Nicobar Is.	AS	26	49
	VU7	Laccadive Is.	AS	22	41
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	XA - XI	Mexico	NA	6	10
	XA4 - XI4	Revilla Gigedo Is.	NA	6	10
	XT	Burkina Faso	AF	35	46
	XU	Cambodia	AS	26	49
	XW	Laos	AS	26	49
	XX9	Macao	AS	24	44
	XY - XZ	Myanmar	AS	26	49
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	YA	Afghanistan	AS	21	40
	YB - YH	Indonesia	OC	28	51 / 54
	YI	Iraq	AS	21	39
	YJ	Vanuatu	OC	32	56
	YK	Syria	AS	20	39
	YL	Latvia	EU	15	29
	YN	Nicaragua	NA	7	11
	YO - YR	Romania	EU	20	28
	YS	El Salvador	NA	7	11
	YT - YU	Serbia	EU	15	28
	YV - YY	Venezuela	SA	9	12
	YV0	Aves Is.	NA	8	11
	Prefix	Entities	CONT.	CQ Zone	ITU Zone
	Z2	Zimbabwe	AF	38	53
	Z3	Macedonia	EU	15	28
	ZA	Albania	EU	15	28
	ZB2	Gibraltar	EU	14	37
	ZC4	U.K. Sovereign Base on Cyprus	AS	20	39
	ZD7	Saint Helena	AF	36	66
	ZD8	Ascension Is.	AF	36	66
	ZD9	Tristan da Cunha and Gough Is.	AF	38	66
	ZF	Cayman Is.	NA	8	11
	ZK2	Niue	OC	32	62
	ZK3	Tokelau Is.	OC	31	62
	ZL - ZM	New Zealand	OC	32	60
	ZL7	Chatham Is.	OC	32	60
	ZL8	Kermadec Is.	OC	32	60
	ZL9	Auckland & Campbell Is.	OC	32	60
	ZP	Paraguay	SA	11	14
	ZS - ZU	Republic of South Africa	AF	38	57
	ZS8	Prince Edward and Marion Is.	AF	38	57

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		Active Entities

	Prefix	Entities
	(1M) ( -15.7.72)	Minerva Reef
	4W ( -21.5.90)	Yemen Arab Rep. (North Yemen)
	7J1 (30.5.76 - 30.11.80)	Okino Tori Shima
	7O,(VS9A) ( -21.5.90)	Yemen Peoples Dem. Rep. (South Yemen)
	8Z4 ( -30.11.82)	Saudi Arabia/Iraq N.Z.
	9K3,8Z5 ( -14.12.69	Kuwait/Saudi Arabia N.Z.
	9M2 ( -15.9.63)	Malaya
	9S4 ( -31.3.57)	Saar
	9U5 (1.7.60 - 30.6.62)	Ruanda-Urundi
	-- (4.5.67 - 30.6.75)	Blenheim Reef
	-- (4.5.67 - 28.2.78)	Geyser Reef
	(AC3) ( -30.4.75)	Sikkim
	(AC4) ( -31.5.74)	Tibet
	C9,BY9 ( -15.9.63)	Manchuria
	CN2 ( -30.6.60)	Tangier
	CR8 ( -31.12.61)	Damao, Diu
	CR8 ( -31.12.61)	Goa
	CR8 ( -14.9.76)	Portuguese Timor
	DJ,DK,DL,DM ( -16.9.73)	Germany
	EA9 ( -13.5.69)	Ifni
	FF8 ( -6.8.60)	French West Africa
	FH8 ( -5.7.75)	Comoro Is.
	FI8 ( -20.12.50)	French Indo China
	FN ( -31.10.54)	French India
	FQ8 ( -16.8.60)	French Equatorial Africa
	HK0 ( -30.11.82)	Bajo Nuevo I.
	HK0,KS4B ( -30.11.82)	Serrana Bank, Roncador
	I1 ( -31.3.57)	Trieste
	I5 ( -30.6.60)	Italian Somaliland
	(J2/A,Z;ET/A;A15)	Abu Ail & Jabal at Tair
	JZ0 ( -30.4.63)	Netherlands New Guinea
	KR6,8;JR6 ( -14.5.72)	Ryukyu Is.
	KS4 ( -31.8.72)	Swan Is.
	KZ5 ( -30.9.79)	Canal Zone
	OK,OL,OM ( -31.12.92)	Czechoslovakia
	PK 1-3 ( -30.4.63)	Java
	PK4 ( -30.4.63)	Sumatra
	PK5 ( -30.4.63)	Netherlands Borneo
	PK6 ( -30.4.63)	Celebes and Molucca Is.
	ST0,6U0 (1994)	Southern Sudan
	UN1 ( -30.6.60)	Karelo-Finnish Rep.
	VK9,P29 ( -15.9.75)	New Guinea
	VK9,P29 ( -15.9.75)	Papua
	VO ( -31.3.49)	Newfoundland, Labrador
	VQ1,5H1 ( -31.5.74)	Zanzibar
	VQ6 ( -30.6.60)	British Somaliland
	VQ9/A ( -28.6.76)	Aldabra Is.
	VQ9/D ( -28.6.76)	Desroches Is.
	VQ9/F ( -28.6.76)	Farquhar Group
	VS4 ( -15.9.63)	Sarawak
	VS9H ( -30.11.67)	Kuria Muria Is.
	VS9K ( -10.3.82)	Kamaran I.
	Y 20-99,(DM) (17.9.73 - 2.10.90)	German Dem. Rep. (DDR)
	ZC5 ( -15.9.63)	British North Borneo
	ZC6 ( -1.7.68)	Palestine
	ZD4 ( -5.3.57)	Gold Coast, Togoland
	ZS9,(ZS1*)	Walvis Bay
	ZS0,(ZS9*)	Penguin Is.