DX Century Club
First post-WWII Countries List

From QST, February 1947, pp. 49 - 50

Postwar Countries List Official List for ARRL DX Contest and the Postwar DXCC
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 col- laborators will be pleased to entertain any criti- cisms. In the meantime, it becomes your yardstick in the ARRL DX Contests and DXCC.

Postwar Countries List

Official List for ARRL DX Contest and the Postwar DXCC

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 col-
laborators will be pleased to entertain any criti-
cisms. 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

Notes, by GU3MBS

257 countries are listed but these include two (Tannu Tuva and Wrangel Islands) subsequently removed without anyone being given credit.
A country may have been re-named to become a present-day DXCC entity, or may have changed
status to become part of an entity, or may have split to form two or more entities:: Aden and Socotra Island now part of Yemen; Aldabra Islands now part of Seychelles; Anglo Egyptian Sudan now Sudan; Basutoland now Lesotho; Bechuanaland now Botswana; Belgian Congo now Burundi, Congo (Kinshasa), and Rwanda; Bonin Island and Volcano Islands (e.g., Iwo Jima) now Ogasawara; Borneo, British North plus Sarawak now East Malaysia; Borneo, Netherlands plus Celebes and Molucca Islands plus Java plus New Guinea, Netherlands plus Sumatra plus Timor, Portuguese now Indonesia; British Honduras now Belize; Burma now Myanmar; Cameroons, French now Cameroon; Canal Zone now part of Panama; Caroline Islands now Micronesia; Channel Islands now Guernsey, and Jersey; Christmas Island, a British colony, now an Australian External Territory (Christmas Island VK9X); Cocos Islands, a British colony, now an Australian External Territory (Cocos (Keeling) Islands VK9C); Comoro Islands now Comoros, and Mayotte; Czechoslovakia now Czech Republic, and Slovak Republic; England now England, and Isle of Man; Fanning Island (Christmas Island) now E. Kiribati; French Equatorial Africa now Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), and Gabon; French India plus Goa (Portuguese India) plus India plus Sikkim now Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan; French Indo-China now Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam; French West Africa now Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Sénégal; Gilbert and Ellis Islands and Ocean Island now W. Kiribati (G&E), and Banaba; Gold Coast (and British Togoland) now Ghana; Guiana, British now Guyana; Guinea, Portuguese now Guinea-Bissau; Guinea, Spanish now Equatorial Guinea; Ifni plus Morocco, French plus Tangier Zone now Morocco; Karelo-Finnish Republic now part of European Russia; Korea now Korea, and North Korea; Laccadive Islands now Lakshadweep Islands; Leeward Islands now Anguilla, Antigua, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, and St. Kitts & Nevis; Little America = Antartica; Malaya now West Malaysia, and Singapore; Manchuria and Tibet now parts of China; Marianas Islands (Guam) now Mariana Islands, and Guam; Morocco, Spanish now Ceuta and Melilla; Newfoundland and Labrador, a British colony, now part of Canada; Netherlands West Indies now Aruba, Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Curacao), and St Maarten - Saba - St Eustatius; New Guinea, Territory of plus Papua Territory now Papua New Guinea; New Hebrides now Vanuatu; Nyasaland now Malawi; Phoenix Islands (British) now Cent. Kiribati; Rhodesia, Northern now Zambia; Rhodesia, Southern now Zimbabwe; Rio de Oro now Western Sahara; Ryukyu Islands (e.g., Okinawa) now part of Japan; Siam now Thailand; Somaliland, British plus Somaliland, Italian now Somalia; Somaliland, French now Djibouti; Southwest Africa now Namibia; Swan Island now part of Honduras; Tanganyika Territory plus Zanzibar now Tanzania; Tannu Tuva and Wrangel Islands now parts of Asiatic Russia; Togoland, French now Togo; Trans-Jordan now Jordan; Trieste now part of Italy; Windward Islands now Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent; Yugoslavia now Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia

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DX Century ClubFirst post-WWII Countries List

From QST, February 1947, pp. 49 - 50

Postwar Countries List

Official List for ARRL DX Contest and the Postwar DXCC

DX Century Club
First post-WWII Countries List