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Maritime identification digits

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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. This is a comprehensive list of MIDs that each country around the world uses. 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 Sea,
  • 4 to Asia (not the southeast),
  • 5 to the Pacific and Eastern Indian Oceans and Southeast Asia,
  • 6 to Africa, the Atlantic and Western Indian Oceans, and
  • 7 to South America.

    • Useful Sites

    MID Mappings to ISO 3166 Country Codes

    References

    Maritime identification digits Wikipedia
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