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DXCC ENTITIES

Sighted in the Wall Street Journal

Started on the fourth anniversary of my blog, I will begin filling this in as I read the Wall Street Journal. As of the moment the total number of DXCC entities is 338. Maybe if I have a spasm of zeal I'll add tiny QSL pictures to each one. Except North Korea.

#	Date (2010)	Page	Entity Name
1	11 March	C2	Argentina
2	11 March	C2	Brazil
3	11 March	C2	Canada
4	11 March	C2	Chile
5	11 March	C2	Ecuador
6	11 March	C2	Colombia
7	11 March	C2	Mexico
8	11 March	C2	Peru
9	11 March	C2	Uruguay
10	11 March	C2	Venezuela
11	11 March	C2	Australia
12	11 March	C2	China (Peoples Republic of China)
13	11 March	C2	Hong Kong
14	11 March	C2	India
15	11 March	C2	Indonesia
16	11 March	C2	Japan
17	11 March	C2	Malaysia (Which is actually two entities - East and West. Not sure how to resolve this yet.
18	11 March	C2	New Zealand
19	11 March	C2	Pakistan
20	11 March	C2	Philippines
21	11 March	C2	Singapore
22	11 March	C2	South Korea
23	11 March	C2	Taiwan (Republic of China)
24	11 March	C2	Thailand
25	11 March	C2	Vietnam
26	11 March	C2	Czech Republic
27	11 March	C2	Denmark
28	11 March	C2	Hungary
29	11 March	C2	Norway
30	11 March	C2	Poland
31	11 March	C2	Russia (Let's call this European Russia)
32	11 March	C2	Sweden
33	11 March	C2	Switzerland
34	11 March	C2	Turkey
35	11 March	C2	Bahrain
36	11 March	C2	Egypt
37	11 March	C2	Israel
38	11 March	C2	Jordan
39	11 March	C2	Kuwait
40	11 March	C2	Lebanon
41	11 March	C2	Saudi Arabia
42	11 March	C2	South Africa
43	11 March	C2	United Arab Emirates
44	11 March	C1	United States of America
45	11 March	C1	England
46	11 March	C6	Marshall Islands
47	11 March	B2	Iran
48	11 March	B4	Italy
49	11 March	B7	Uganda
50	24 May	A11	Niger
51	11 March	D3	Holland / The Netherlands
52	11 March	D3	Panama
53	11 March	D7	Ghana
54	11 March	A1	Afghanistan
55	11 March	A10	Nigeria
56	11 March	A10	United Nations (Yes, the building in New York City)
57	11 March	A11	Germany
58	11 March	A11	Iraq
59	11 March	A12	Greece
60	11 March	A13	Spain
61	11 March	A14	Sudan
62	11 March	A14	Kenya
63	11 March	A14	Chad
64	11 March	A14	Southern Sudan
65	11 March	A15	Greenland
66	11 March	A16	Libya
67	12 March	C2	France
68	12 March	C2	Luxembourg
69	12 March	B8	Belgium
70	12 March	A1	Haiti
71	12 March	A1	Myanmar
72	12 March	A1	Ukraine
73	12 March	A1	Bolivia
74	12 March	A6	Yemen
75	12 March	A8	Palestine
76	12 March	A15	Cuba
77	12 March	A15	Zimbabwe
78	12 March	A15	Bangladesh
79	13 March	B5	Macau
80	13 March	B1	Scotland
81	13 March	W8	Gibraltar
82	13 March	W8	Ethiopia
83	13 March	W8	Syria
84	13 March	A1	Ireland
85	13March	A5	(Papua) New Guinea
86	13 March	A5	Antarctica
87	15 March	C7	Angola
88	15 March	A2	Cambodia
89	15 March	A2	Laos
90	15 march	A4	Jamaica
91	15 March	A18	Asiatic Russia
92	15 March	A18	Sri Lanka
93	15 March	A21	Senegal
94	15 March	A23	Guantanamo Bay (Cuba)
95	16 March	C2	Mayotte
96	16 March	C7	Alaska
97	16 March	D9	Uzbekistan
98	16 March	A8	Hawaii
99	16 March	A18	Portugal
100	16 March	A19	Somalia
101	12 July 2013	FRT	Crozet

DXCC in less than a week!

With a little bit of obsession and more careful reading than usual, we're up to 101. In compiling these, I ran into a few anomalies that I had to resolve with ad hoc "rules" which may become permanent if they work well. The synecdoche rule asserts that when a city is clearly being used to refer to a country then it's OK to list the country. The "-an" rule, e.g., when someone is referred to as a Mexican or Canadian, then it's not OK to list the country. On the other hand, if a person was "arrested in Mayotte" (which is where that one came from), of course it's OK. The map rule recognizes that countries shown on a map strictly for position reference don't count unless they are also mentioned in the associated article or table. Finally, some countries are divided by geographical criteria, e.g., the European and Asian parts of Russia are two entities. I'll use my judgment as to when to count each. If you noticed Alaska, Hawaii, and the United Nations in the above list, it's because I'm following the ARRL's rule for entities, and that is not subject to my own modifications, although theirs may seem just as arbitrary.

The first hundred are the easiest. The second hundred shouldn't take more than a year.

#	Date (2010)	Page	Entity Name
102	17 March	C3	Puerto Rico
103	17 march	B3	Qatar
104	17 March	A15	Turkmenistan
105	17 March	A17	Vatican City
106	18 March	C10	Malta
107	18 March	C10	Finland
108	18 March	B1	North Korea
109	18 March	A14	Latvia
110	18 March	A14	Armenia
111	18 March	A16	Democratic Republic of Congo
112	18 March	A17	Morocco
113	18 March	A1	Rwanda
114	19 March	C12	Tanzania`
115	19 March	C12	Monaco
116	20 March	B5	Guinea
117	20 March	A11	El Salvador
118	20 March	A11	Dominican Republic
119	20 March	A12	Bulgaria
120	20 March	A12	Romania
121	20 March	A12	Estonia
122	20 March	A12	Lithuania
123	20 March	B11	Algeria
124
125	20 March	B11	Benin
126	20 March	B11	Botswana
127	20 March	B11	Burkina Faso
128	20 March	B11	Burundi
129	20 March	B11	Cameroon
130	20 March	B11	Cape Verde
131	20 March	B11	Central African Republic
132	20 March	B11	Comoros
133	20 March	B11	Republic of the Congo
134	20 March	B11	Djibouti
135	20 March	B11	Equatorial Guinea
136	20 March	B11	Gabon
137	20 March	B11	Gambia
138	20 March	B11	Guinea Bissau
139	20 March	B11	Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)
140	20 March	B11	Lesotho
141	20 March	B11	Liberia
142
143	20 March	B11	Madagascar
144	20 March	B11	Malawi
145	20 March	B11	Mali Republic
146	20 March	B11	Mauritania
147	20 March	B11	Mauritius
148	20 March	B11	Mozambique
149	20 March	B11	Namibia
150	20 March	B11	Reunion
151	20 March	B11	Saint Helena
152	20 March	B11	Sao Tome and Principe
153	20 March	B11	Seychelles
154	20 March	B11	Sierra Leone
155	20 March	B11	Swaziland (now Eswatini)
156	20 March	B11	Republic of Togo
157	20 March	B11	Tunisia
158	20 March	B11	Zambia
159	20 March	B11	Belize
160	20 March	B11	Bermuda
161	20 March	B11	Costa Rica
162	20 March	B11	Falkland Islands
163	20 March	B11	French Guyana
164	20 March	B11	Guatemala
165	20 March	B11	Guyana
166	20 March	B11	Honduras
167	20 March	B11	Nicaragua
168	20 March	B11	St. Pierre (et Miquelon)
169	20 March	B11	Suriname
170	20 March	B11	Azerbaijan
171	20 March	B11	Bhutan
172	20 March	B11	Brunei
173	20 March	B11	Kazakhstan
174	20 March	B11	Maldives
175	20 March	B11	Mongolia
176	20 March	B11	Nepal
177	20 March	B11	Oman
178	20 March	B11	Antigua (and Barbuda)
179	20 March	B11	Aruba
180	20 March	B11	Bahamas
181	20 March	B11	Barbados
182	20 March	B11	Cayman Islands
183	20 March	B11	Dominica
184	20 March	B11	Grenada
185	20 March	B11	Guadeloupe
186	20 March	B11	Martinique
187	20 March	B11	Montserrat
188	20 March	B11	Netherlands Antilles
189	20 March	B11	St. Kitts (and Nevis)
190	20 March	B11	St. Lucia
191	20 March	B11	St. Vincent
192	20 March	B11	Trinidad & Tobago
193	20 March	B11	Turks and Caicos
194	20 March	B11	Virgin Islands (U.S.)
195	20 March	B11	Albania
196	20 March	B11	Belarus
197	20 March	B11	Bosnia & Herzegovina
198	20 March	B11	Croatia
199	20 March	B11	Faroe Islands
200
201	20 March	B11	Iceland
202	20 March	B11	Liechtenstein
203	20 March	B11	Macedonia
204	20 March	B11	Moldova
205	20 March	B11	Serbia
206	20 March	B11	Fiji
207	20 March	B11	Guam
208	20 March	B11	East Kiribati
209	20 March	B11	Nauru Island
210	20 March	B11	Pitcairn Island
211	20 March	B11	American Samoa
212	20 March	B11	Western Samoa
213	20 March	B11	Solomon Islands
214	20 March	B11	Tonga Islands
215	20 March	B11	Vanuatu

200+ In Less Than Two Weeks

I predicted less than a year for the second hundred, and I was only off by 51 weeks. For better or worse, after declaring that tables are acceptable, I suddenly found a very comprehensive currency table and had the choice of increasing the challenge by ignoring it or accepting my just-declared rule. Don't worry, the last 100+ are enough of a challenge by themselves. Chances are you've at least heard of all the entities in the above 216.

Just wait...

#	Date (2010)	Page	Entity Name
216	22 March	C7	Paraguay
217	22 March	A1	Cyprus
218	22 March	A1	Kosovo
219	23 March	A17	Austria
220	24 March	C2	Guernsey (Channel Islands)
221	25 March	A17	Slovakia
222	26 March	A12	Bonair, Curacao (27 March 2010)
223	27 March	R6	Svalbard
224	02 April	W8	Ogasawara Islands (Iwo Jima)
225
226	03 April	W4	West Kiribati (Tarawa - Gilbert Islands)
227	07 April	A8	Andaman
228	08 April	A1	Kyrgyzstan
229	09 April	A1	French Polynesia (Tahiti)
230	13 April	A15	Northern Ireland
231	16 April	C2	British Virgin Islands
232	17 April	A1	Wales
233	20 April	A1	Republic of Slovenia
234	21 April	A10	Balearic Islands
235	21 April	A10	Canary Islands
236	23 April	A1	Tajikistan
237	01 May	B5	New Caledonia
238
239	10 May	A20	Saint Martin
240	15 May	R3	Galapagos Islands
241	25 June	A15	Eritrea
242
243	06 July	A12	Timor-Leste (East Timor) [In online edition but NOT in print edition!]
244	07 July	D3	Easter Island
245	16 July	A13	Micronesia
246	24 July	A8	Spratly Islands
247	29 July	D3	Mariana Islands
248	30 July	D1	Isle of Man
249	17 August	A10	San Andres (and Providencia)
250	17 August	A15	Kaliningrad
251	03 Sept.	A2	Anguilla
252	02 October	D1	Azores Islands
253	04 October	A28	Christmas Island (The one in the Indian Ocean)
254	29 January	FRT	Sint Maarten
255	14 Dec.	R1	Crete
256	18 Dec.	OD	Franz Josef Land (Rudolf Island) in Off Duty section
#	Date (2011)	Page	Entity Name
257	22 Jan.	REV	Midway (Review Section)
258	08 April	FRT	Cocos (Keeling) Island (Australia) in Front Section
259	29 May	MAG	San Marino
260	01 June	FIN	Rhodes Island (Dodecanese Islands)
261	07 June	FRT	Chagos Islands (Diego Garcia)
262	15 July	FRT	South Sudan (Not the same as Southern Sudan)
263	01 Nov.	FRT	Andorra
264	03 Nov.	FRT	Georgia
265	07 Nov.	FRT	Corsica
266	19 Nov.	FRT	Tuvalu
267	08 Dec.	FRT	Montenegro
#	DATE (2012)	Page	Entity Name
268	07 Jan.	FRT	South Georgia Islands
269	02 Feb.	NOW	South Sandwich Islands (online update section)
270	04 Feb.	REV	Central Kiribati - Canton Island
271	27 Feb.	FRT	South Shetland Islands (King George Island)
272	12 Apr.	FRT	Scarborough Reef (Shoal)
273	27 Apr.	FRT	South Cook Islands (Also see entry 296)
274	26 May	REV	Wake Island
275	08 June	FRT	Republic of Palau
276	04 July	NOW	Baker and Howland Islands
276	20 July	FIN	Niue
277	13 August	MKT	Sardinia
278	24 Nov.	REV	Marquesas Islands
279	04 Dec.	FRT	Mt. Athos
#	DATE (2013)	Page	Entity Name
280	16 January	FRT	Tristan da Cunha
281	16 January	FRT	Ascension Island
282	29 January	FRT	Sint Maarten, Saba, St. Eustatius
283	02 February	REV	Juan Fernandez Islands (Robinson Crusoe Island)
284	06 February	TDY	Solomon Islands Temotu Province (Santa Cruz Islands)
285	20 March	MON	UK Sovereign Bases Cyprus
286	17 June	MON	Jersey
287	17 October	FRT	Tokelau
#	DATE (2014)	Page	Entity Name
288	26 March	OPI	Pratas Island
289	24 April	FRT	Lakshadweep Islands
#	DATE (2017)		Entity Name
290	15 January		Macquarie Island
291	11 February		Chatham Islands
#	Date (2021)		Entity Name
292	07 May		Willis Islands
293	07 May		Bouvet Island
#	DATE (2022)		Entity Name
294	13 May		Desecheo Island
295	17 May		Wallis and Futuna
296	23 August		North Cook Islands (New article about mining clearly refers to North, so I've declared 273 South)
	DATE (2023)		Entity Name
297	02 December		Amsterdam & St. Paul (Ile Amsterdam)
	DATE (2024)		Entity Name
298	12 January		Lackshadweep (Laccadive Islands - India)

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