Timeline of the introduction of radio in countries

This is a list of when the first publicly announced radio broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not referred to; neither are license dates or dates of the official opening.

Year Countries
1920  Argentina (LOR Buenos Aires),  Canada (XWA Montreal),  United States (8MK Detroit, 8XK Pittsburgh)
1921  France (FL Paris R. Tour Eiffel)
1922  Brazil (SPE Rio de Janeiro),  Chile (R. Chilena),  Cuba (PWX Havana),  Hawaii (KGU Honolulu),  New Zealand (R. Dunedin),  Philippines (KZKZ Manila),  United Kingdom (2MT Marconi laboratories, 2LO London)
1923  Australia (2SB Sydney),  Belgium (BAV Brussels), British Ceylon Ceylon (R. Ceylon),  China (XRO Shanghai),  Czechoslovakia (OKP Prague Radiojournal), Weimar Republic Germany (Funk-Stunde Berlin),  India (2FV Radio Club Bombay),  Mexico (CYL Mexico City),  Netherlands (HDO Hilversum),  South Africa (JB Johannesburg),   Switzerland (2HB Lausanne)
1924  Austria (ORV Vienna RAVAG), Kingdom of Italy Italy (IRO Rome),  Soviet Union (Moscow: RA1 Komintern, RA2 MGSPS),  Spain (EAJ1 Barcelona), Straits Settlements Singapore (1SE),  Tunisia (Tunis Kasbah), Kingdom of Yugoslavia Serbia (HFF Belgrade)
1925 Kingdom of Afghanistan Afghanistan (R. Kabul), Algeria (8DB Algiers),  Byelorussian SSR (RA18 Minsk),  Denmark (Statsradiofonien),  Egypt (R. Farouk et al. Cairo),  Hungary (MT1 Budapest), Dutch East India Company Indonesia (Bataviaasche RV Jakarta), Empire of Japan Japan (JOAK Tokyo; JQAK Dalian; JFAB Taipei),  Latvia (YLZ Riga),  Norway (Kringkastingsselskapet),  Peru (OAX Lima),  Portugal (P1AA Lisbon),  Sweden (SASA Stockholm Radiotjänst),  Ukrainian SSR (RA21 Kharkiv)
1926  Armenian SSR (RA49 Yerevan),  Azerbaijan SSR (RA45 Baku), British rule in Burma Burma (2HZ Rangoon), Czechoslovakia Slovakia (OKR Bratislava Radiojournal),  Estonia (R. Ringhääling Tallinn),  Finland (Yle Helsinki),  Georgian SSR (RA27 Tbilisi),  Iceland (H.f. Útvarp Reykjavík),  Irish Free State (2RN Dublin),  Kazakh SSR (RA64 Petropavlovsk),  Lithuania (RYK Kaunas),  Poland (Polskie R. Warsaw),  Venezuela (AYRE Caracas), Kingdom of Yugoslavia Croatia (R. Zagreb)
1927  India (7BY-VUB IBC Bombay), East Africa Protectorate Kenya (7LO Nairobi), Empire of Japan Korea (JODK Seoul),  Turkey (Istanbul PTT),  Uruguay (CWOA Montevideo),  Turkmen SSR (RA6 Ashgabat),  Uzbek SSR (RA27 Tashkent)
1928  Hong Kong (GOW),  Morocco (Radio-Maroc), India Pakistan (Lahore YMCA),  Romania (R. Bukarest), Taiwan R.o.China (XKM Nanjing),  Thailand (4PJ Bangkok), Kingdom of Yugoslavia Slovenia (R. Ljubljana)
1930  Bulgaria (Rodno R.), Straits Settlements Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur KLAWS), French Indochina Vietnam (FZS Saigon)
1931 Madagascar (R. Tananarive),  Samoa (5ZA Apia),   Vatican City (Vatican R.)
1932  Southern Rhodesia (ZEA Salisbury)
1933  Luxembourg (R. Luxembourg), Portuguese Mozambique Mozambique (LM Radio)
1934  Mongolia (R. Ulaanbaatar)
1935  Fiji (ZJV Suva)
1936 Mandatory Palestine Palestine (Jerusalem/Ramallah PBS)
1937 Lebanon (Radio-Orient)
1938  Albania (R. Tirana),  Greece (Athens YRE)
1939  Andorra (R. Andorra), India Bangladesh (VUY Dhaka)
1940 China P.R.China (XNCR Yan'an),  Iran (R. Tehran)
1943  Monaco (R. Monte Carlo)
1946 French Indochina Cambodia (R. Cambodge)
1948  Nigeria (R. Nigeria)
1951 French Indochina Laos (Vientiane),    Nepal (R. Nepal)
1957  Brunei (RTB)
1962  Maldives (Male Radio)
1973  Bhutan (Thimphu NYAB)

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