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List of entities that have issued postage stamps (F–L)

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.

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.

List edit

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.

Falkland Islands edit

Falkland Islands Dependencies edit

Faroe Islands edit

  • Faroe Islands (British Occupation during WWII)
  • Faroe Islands 1975 –

Fiji edit

Finland edit

Fiume edit

France edit

French Colonies edit

French Post Offices Abroad edit

Gabon edit

Gambia edit

Georgia edit

  • Georgia 1993 –
  • Georgia (pre-Soviet) 1919–1923

German Colonies edit

German Post Abroad edit

German States edit

Germany edit

Germany (Allied Occupation) edit

Ghana edit

Gibraltar edit

Gilbert and Ellice Islands edit

Greece edit

Greek Post Abroad edit

Greenland edit

Grenada edit

Guatemala edit

Guinea edit

Guinea–Bissau edit

Guyana edit

Haiti edit

Honduras edit

Hong Kong edit

Hungary edit

Iceland edit

India edit

Indian Convention States edit

Indian Native States edit

Indian Overseas Forces edit

Indo–China edit

Indo–Chinese Post in China edit

Indonesia edit

International Organisations edit

Ionian Islands edit

Iran edit

  • Iran 1935 –
  • Persian Socialist Republic 1919-1921
  • Persia 1868–1935

Iraq edit

Ireland, Republic of edit

Israel edit

Italian Colonies edit

Italian Post Abroad edit

Italian States edit

Italy edit

Ivory Coast edit

Jamaica edit

Japan edit

Japanese Post Abroad edit

Jordan edit

Kazakhstan edit

Kenya edit

Kiribati edit

Korea edit

Kosovo edit

Kuwait edit

Kyrgyzstan edit

Labuan edit

Laos edit

Latvia edit

Lebanon edit

  • Greater Lebanon 1924–1926
  • Lebanon 1924 –

Leeward Islands edit

Lesotho edit

Liberia edit

Libya edit

Liechtenstein edit

Lithuania edit

Luxembourg edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ McCarty, Denise (May 8, 2020). "A new dead country: Iceland to stop issuing stamps". Linn's Stamp News. Retrieved 2020-05-09.

Bibliography edit

  • Stanley Gibbons Ltd, Europe and Colonies 1970, Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 1969
  • Stanley Gibbons Ltd, various catalogues
  • Stuart Rossiter & John Flower, The Stamp Atlas, W H Smith, 1989
  • XLCR Stamp Finder and Collector's Dictionary, Thomas Cliffe Ltd, c.1960
  • Rimeco S.A. / Switzerland, "Stamp Catalogue of Libya from 1942" and "Stamp Catalogue of Libyan Jamahiriya"

External links edit

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