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.

Macao/Macau

Macedonia

Madagascar and Dependencies

Madeira

Malagasy Republic

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldive Islands

Mali Republic

Malta

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Micronesia, Federated States of

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Mozambique Territories

Myanmar

Nagorno–Karabakh

Namibia

Natal

Nauru

Nepal

Netherlands, Kingdom of the

New Zealand

• British claims with postal services formally assigned to the New Zealand Post Office

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Nigerian Territories

Niuafo'ou

Niue

Norfolk Island

Northern Cyprus

North Korea

North Macedonia

Norway

Obock

See Djibouti

Oman

Orange River Colony

Pakistan

Palau

Palestine

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Penrhyn

Peru

Philippines

Pitcairn Islands

Plebiscite Issues

Poland

Polish Post Abroad

Portugal

Portuguese Colonies

Qatar

Ras Al Khaimah

See United Arab Emirates

Rhineland Palatinate

See Germany

Rhodesia

Romania

Romanian Post Abroad

Russia

Russian Civil War Issues

Russian Post Abroad

Rwanda

Saar

See Germany

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samaliland Republic of

Samoa

San Marino

Sao Tome e Principe

Saudi Arabia

Sedang

Senegal

Serbia

Serbian Post Abroad

Seychelles

Sharjah

See United Arab Emirates

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

Somaliland

South Africa

South Arabia, Federation of

See Yemen

South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

South Korea

South Ossetia

South Sudan

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Spain

Spanish Colonies

Spanish Post Abroad

Sri Lanka

St Helena

Sudan

Suriname

Swaziland

Sweden

Swiss Cantonal Issues

Switzerland

Syria

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Tannu Tuva

Tanzania

Thailand

Thrace

Thuringia

See Germany

Tibet

Timor Leste (East Timor)

Togo

Tokelau

Tonga

Transnistria

Transvaal

Trieste

Trinidad and Tobago

Tristan da Cunha

Trucial States

See United Arab Emirates

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Turks and Caicos Islands

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine

Umm Al Qiwain

See United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United Nations

United States

Uruguay

US Post Abroad

USSR

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Vatican City

Venezia Giulia and Istria

Venezuela

Vietnam

Windward Islands

Württemberg

See Germany

Yemen

Yugoslavia

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Zululand