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

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See also
List of entities that have issued postage stamps (A - E)
List of entities that have issued postage stamps (M - Z)

Introduction

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 till 1960: in that case, 1951 is the last stamp issue date.

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. Therefore, although it presently (i.e., in July 2006) contains numerous redlinks, there is method here in that members can readily see the country survey articles that are needed. It is recommended that articles should be started as stubs in the short term using information that is readily available.

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.

Falkland Islands

Falkland Islands Dependencies

Faroe Islands

Fiji

Finland

Finnish Post Abroad

Fiume

France

French Colonies

French Post Offices Abroad

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

German Colonies

German Post Abroad

German States

Germany

Germany (Allied Occupation)

Ghana

Gibraltar

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

Greece

Greek Post Abroad

Greenland

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hong Kong

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indian Convention States

Indian Native States

Indian Overseas Forces

Indo-China

Indo-Chinese Post in China

Indonesia

International Organisations

Ionian Islands

Iran

Iraq

Foreign Military Postoffices - British postoffices - Indian Postoffices

Ireland

Isö

  • Isö (A Swedish local post)

Israel

Italian Colonies

Italian Post Abroad

Italian States

Italy

Ivory Coast

Jamaica

Japan

Japanese Post Abroad

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Korea

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Latvia

Lebanon

  • Ottoman postoffices
  • Foreign Postoffices
  • Occupation issues (french)
  • Greater Lebanon 1924 - 1926
  • Lebanon 1924 -

Leeward Islands

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

  • Turkish postoffices
  • Foreign postoffices
  • Italian Occupation issues
  • Libya 1912 -

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

See also
List of entities that have issued postage stamps (A - E)
List of entities that have issued postage stamps (M - Z)

Sources

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