This is a list of entities that have issued postage stamps at some point since stamps were introduced in 1840. The list includes any kind of governmental entity or officially approved organisation that has issued distinctive types of stamp for postal purposes. These include post offices in foreign countries and postal services organised by military occupations, international organisations, colonies, provinces, city-states and some revolutionary movements. The list includes members of the Universal Postal Union that are also listed at postal organisations.
Contents
- List
- Abu Dhabi
- Aden
- Afghanistan
- Aitutaki
- Ajman
- land Islands
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antarctic Territories
- Argentina
- Argentine Territories
- Armenia
- Ascension
- Australia
- Austria
- Austrian Post Abroad
- Azerbaijan
- Azores
- Azores Territories
- Baden
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgian Post Abroad
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bohemia and Moravia
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Antarctic Territory
- British East Africa
- British Guiana
- British Post Abroad
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Bulgarian Territories
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
- Cameroun
- Canada
- Canadian Provinces
- Canal Zone
- Cape of Good Hope
- Cape Verde Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Chinese Provinces
- Peoples Republic of China Regional Issues
- Christmas Island
- Cilicia
- Cocos Keeling Islands
- Colombia
- Colombian Territories
- Comoro Islands
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Crete
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Czechoslovakia
- Danzig
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Dubai
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia Abyssinia
- References
Many of these entities are historic and some were very short-lived indeed. Philatelists and stamp collectors often refer to the entities that no longer issue stamps as dead countries.
The dates are the generally agreed-upon dates of first and last stamp issues. "Date of issue" is taken to mean the date when a particular type or variation was first issued but its usage would often continue for many years. For example, although an entity may have issued its last stamp in 1951, actual usage may have continued until 1960: in that case, 1951 is the last stamp issue date.
Besides the period of which stamps were issued in the name of a particular entity, the list under that entity also bears any other name in which stamps had been issued for territory, name of any other entity which had had its stamps used in that territory, or new names which had subsequently replaced the name of that entity, together with their respective periods.
The list has a short to medium term purpose for Wikipedia:WikiProject Philately in that it identifies the country surveys which the project aims to introduce.
List
The list has been comprehensively revised to include extra entities and to direct the links away from the country articles to the (proposed) philatelic articles.
Abu Dhabi
See United Arab Emirates
Aden
See Yemen
Afghanistan
Aitutaki
Ajman
See United Arab Emirates
Åland Islands
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antarctic Territories
Argentina
Argentine Territories
Armenia
Ascension
Australia
Austria
Austrian Post Abroad
Azerbaijan
Azores
Azores Territories
Baden
See Germany
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgian Post Abroad
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bohemia and Moravia
See Czech Republic
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
British Antarctic Territory
British East Africa
British Guiana
British Post Abroad
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Territories
Burkina Faso
Burma
Cameroun
Canada
Canadian Provinces
Canal Zone
Cape of Good Hope
Cape Verde Islands
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Chinese Provinces
People's Republic of China Regional Issues
Christmas Island
Cilicia
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia
Colombian Territories
Comoro Islands
Congo
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Crete
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia
See Czech Republic
Danzig
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
Dubai
See United Arab Emirates