How can I initialize an array of pointers to structs?

Is it possible to initialize an array of pointers to structs? Something like:

struct country_t *countries[] = {
        {"United States of America", "America"},
        {"England", "Europe"},
        {"Ethiopia", "Africa"}  
    }

I want to do that in order to get the entities in not-contiguous memory, and the pointers to them in contiguous memory... But I can't use dynamic memory, so I wonder if it is possible without it.