List of entities that have issued postage stamps (A–E)

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. 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 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

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.

Abkhazia

Afghanistan

Aitutaki

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antarctic Territories

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Argentine Territories

Armenia

Artsakh

Ascension

Australia

Austria

Austrian Post Abroad

Azerbaijan

Azores

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

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

see Myanmar

Burundi

Cambodia

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

Comoros Islands

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Congo, Republic of the

Cook Islands

Costa Rica

Crete

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czechia

Czechoslovakia