Maritime identification digits

Last updated June 28, 2024

Maritime identification digits are used by radio communication facilities to identify their home country or base area in digital selective calling (DSC), Automatic Transmitter Identification System (ATIS), and Automatic identification system (AIS) messages as part of their Maritime Mobile Service Identities. The International Telecommunication Union facilitates the assignment of MIDs to countries.^[1] Note that not all countries have MIDs; those without are typically landlocked, with no access to international waters. Sorting MID assignments in numerical order reveals a regional structure, with the first digit:

2 assigned to Europe,
3 to North America and the Caribbean,
4 to Asia (except the southeast),
5 to the Pacific and Eastern Indian Oceans and Southeast Asia,
6 to Africa, the Atlantic Ocean and Western Indian Ocean, and
7 to South America.

Country	Codes
Adélie Land (French Southern Territories)	501
Afghanistan	401
Alaska (State of)	303
Albania (Republic of)	201
Algeria (People's Democratic Republic of)	605
American Samoa	559
Andorra (Principality of)	202
Angola (Republic of)	603
Anguilla	301
Antigua and Barbuda	304; 305
Argentine Republic	701
Armenia (Republic of)	216
Aruba	307
Ascension Island	608
Australia	503
Austria	203
Azerbaijani Republic	423
Azores (Portuguese isles of)	204
Bahamas (Commonwealth of the)	308; 309; 311
Bahrain (Kingdom of)	408
Bangladesh (People's Republic of)	405
Barbados	314
Belarus (Republic of)	206
Belgium	205
Belize	312
Benin (Republic of)	610
Bermuda	310
Bhutan (Kingdom of)	410
Bolivia (Republic of)	720
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba - Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	306
Bosnia and Herzegovina	478
Botswana (Republic of)	611
Brazil (Federative Republic of)	710
British Virgin Islands	378
Brunei Darussalam	508
Bulgaria (Republic of)	207
Burkina Faso	633
Burundi (Republic of)	609
Cambodia (Kingdom of)	514; 515
Cameroon (Republic of)	613
Canada	316
Cape Verde (Republic of)	617
Cayman Islands	319
Central African Republic	612
Chad (Republic of)	670
Chile	725
China (People's Republic of)	412; 413; 414
Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)	516
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	523
Colombia (Republic of)	730
Comoros (Union of the)	616; 620
Congo (Republic of the)	615
Cook Islands	518
Costa Rica	321
Côte d'Ivoire (Republic of)	619
Croatia (Republic of)	238
Crozet Archipelago	618
Cuba	323
Curaçao - Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	306
Cyprus (Republic of)	209; 210; 212
Czech Republic	270
North Korea	445
Democratic Republic of the Congo	676
Denmark	219; 220
Djibouti (Republic of)	621
Dominica (Commonwealth of)	325
Dominican Republic	327
Ecuador	735
Egypt (Arab Republic of)	622
El Salvador (Republic of)	359
Equatorial Guinea (Republic of)	631
Eritrea	625
Estonia (Republic of)	276
Ethiopia (Federal Democratic Republic of)	624
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	740
Faroe Islands	231
Fiji (Republic of)	520
Finland	230
France	226; 227; 228
French Polynesia	546
Gabonese Republic	626
Gambia (Republic of the)	629
Georgia	213
Germany (Federal Republic of)	211; 218 (218 from former German Democratic Republic)
Ghana	627
Gibraltar	236
Greece	237; 239; 240; 241
Greenland	331
Grenada	330
Guadeloupe (French Department of)	329
Guatemala (Republic of)	332
Guiana (French Department of)	745
Guinea (Republic of)	632
Guinea-Bissau (Republic of)	630
Guyana	750
Haiti (Republic of)	336
Honduras (Republic of)	334
Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China)	477
Hungary (Republic of)	243
Iceland	251
India (Republic of)	419
Indonesia (Republic of)	525
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	422
Iraq (Republic of)	425
Ireland	250
Israel (State of)	428
Italy	247
Jamaica	339
Japan	431; 432
Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of)	438
Kazakhstan (Republic of)	436
Kenya (Republic of)	634
Kerguelen Islands	635
Kiribati (Republic of)	529
Korea (Republic of)	440; 441
Kuwait (State of)	447
Kyrgyzstan	451
Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos)	531
Latvia (Republic of)	275
Lebanon	450
Lesotho (Kingdom of)	644
Liberia (Republic of)	636; 637
Libya	642
Liechtenstein (Principality of)	252
Lithuania (Republic of)	277
Luxembourg	253
Macao	453
Macedonia	274
Madagascar (Republic of)	647
Madeira (Portuguese isles of)	255
Malawi	655
Malaysia	533
Maldives (Republic of)	455
Mali (Republic of)	649
Malta	215; 229; 248; 249; 256
Marshall Islands (Republic of the)	538
Martinique (French Department of)	347
Mauritania (Islamic Republic of)	654
Mauritius (Republic of)	645
Mexico	345
Micronesia (Federated States of)	510
Moldova (Republic of)	214
Monaco (Principality of)	254
Mongolia	457
Montenegro (Republic of)	262
Montserrat	348
Morocco (Kingdom of)	242
Mozambique (Republic of)	650
Myanmar (Union of)	506
Namibia (Republic of)	659
Nauru (Republic of)	544
Nepal	459
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	244; 245; 246
New Caledonia	540
New Zealand	512
Nicaragua	350
Niger (Republic of the)	656
Nigeria (Federal Republic of)	657
Niue	542
Northern Mariana Islands (Commonwealth of the)	536
Norway	257; 258; 259
Oman (Sultanate of)	461
Pakistan (Islamic Republic of)	463
Palau (Republic of)	511
Palestinian Authority (based on Resolution 99 of PP-98)	443
Panama (Republic of)	351; 352; 353; 354; 355; 356; 357; 370; 371; 372; 373; 374
Papua New Guinea	553
Paraguay (Republic of)	755
Peru	760
Philippines (Republic of the)	548
Pitcairn Islands	555
Poland (Republic of)	261
Portugal	263
Puerto Rico	358
Qatar (State of)	466
Réunion (French Department of)	660
Romania	264
Russian Federation	273
Rwandese Republic	661
Saint Helena	665
Saint Kitts and Nevis	341
Saint Lucia	343
Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands	607
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Territorial Collectivity of)	361
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	375; 376; 377
Samoa (Independent State of)	561
San Marino (Republic of)	268
São Tomé and Príncipe (Democratic Republic of)	668
Saudi Arabia (Kingdom of)	403
Senegal (Republic of)	663
Serbia	279
Seychelles (Republic of)	664
Sierra Leone	667
Singapore (Republic of)	563; 564; 565; 566
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	306
Slovakia	267
Slovenia (Republic of)	278
Solomon Islands	557
Somalia	666
South Africa (Republic of)	601
Spain	224; 225
Sri Lanka (Democratic Socialist Republic of)	417
South Sudan (Republic of the)	638
Sudan (Republic of the)	662
Suriname (Republic of)	765
Swaziland (Kingdom of)	669
Sweden	265; 266
Switzerland (Confederation of)	269
Syrian Arab Republic	468
Taiwan (Republic of China)	416
Tajikistan (Republic of)	472
Tanzania (United Republic of)	674; 677
Thailand	567
Timor-Leste	550
Togolese Republic	671
Tonga (Kingdom of)	570
Trinidad and Tobago	362
Tunisia	672
Turkey	271
Turkmenistan	434
Turks and Caicos Islands	364
Tuvalu	572
Uganda (Republic of)	675
Ukraine	272
United Arab Emirates	470; 471
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	232; 233; 234; 235
United States Virgin Islands	379
United States of America	338; 366; 367; 368; 369
Uruguay (Eastern Republic of)	770
Uzbekistan	437
Vanuatu (Republic of)	576; 577
Vatican City State	208
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	775
Vietnam (Socialist Republic of)	574
Wallis and Futuna Islands	578
Yemen (Republic of)	473; 475
Zambia (Republic of)	678
Zimbabwe (Republic of)	679

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