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. 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.

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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	1878 –

Falkland Islands Dependencies

 * Falkland Islands Dependencies	1946 –

Faroe Islands

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

Fiji

 * Fiji	1870 –

Finland

 * Finland	1856 –
 * Åland Islands	1984 –
 * Finnish Post Abroad
 * Aunus (Finnish Occupation)	1919 only
 * Eastern Karelia (Finnish Occupation)	1941–1944
 * Karjala 1922 (only)

Fiume

 * Arbe	1920 only
 * Fiume (Free State)	1918–1924
 * Fiume (Yugoslav Occupation)	1945–1947
 * Veglia	1920 only

France

 * France	1849 –
 * French Somali Coast	1902–1967
 * Guadeloupe	1884–1947
 * Martinique	1886–1947
 * Reunion	1885–1974
 * St Pierre et Miquelon	1885–1978

French Colonies

 * Algeria (French Colony)	1924–1958
 * Benin (French Colony)	1892–1899
 * Chad (French Colony)	1922–1937
 * Dahomey	1899–1944; 1960–1975
 * Dakar – Abidjan	1959 only
 * Djibouti (French Colony)	1893–1902
 * Fezzan and Ghadames	1943–1951
 * French Colonies	1859–1886
 * French Committee of National Liberation	1943–1945
 * French Congo	1891–1906
 * French Equatorial Africa (AEF)	1936–1958
 * French Guiana	1886–1947
 * French Guinea	1892–1944
 * French Indian Settlements	1892–1954
 * French Morocco	1914–1956
 * French Oceanic Settlements	1892–1956
 * French Polynesia	1958 –
 * French Protectorate, Morocco	1914–1915
 * French Soudan	1894–1944
 * French Southern and Antarctic Territories	1955 –
 * French Territory of Afars and Issas	1967–1977
 * French West Africa	1944–1959
 * Gabon (French Colony)	1886–1937
 * Inini	1932–1946
 * Ivory Coast (French Colony)	1892–1944
 * Mali Federation	1959–1960
 * Mauritania (French Colony)	1906–1944
 * Mayotte 1997–
 * Middle Congo	1907–1937
 * New Caledonia	1860 –
 * Niger (French Colony)	1921–1944
 * Obock	1892–1894
 * Oubangui – Chari	1922–1937
 * Oubangui – Chari – Tchad	1915–1922
 * Senegal (French Colony)	1887 –
 * Senegambia and Niger	1903–1906
 * Tahiti	1882–1915
 * Togo (French Colony)	1921–1957
 * Upper Senegal and Niger	1906–1921
 * Upper Volta (French Colony)	1920–1933
 * Vietnam (French Colony)	1945–1954
 * Wallis and Futuna Islands	1920 –

French Post Offices Abroad

 * French post offices abroad
 * Alexandria (French Post Office)	1899–1931
 * Andorra (French Offices)	1931 –
 * Arad (French Occupation)	1919 only
 * Beirut (French Post Office)	1905 only
 * Castelrosso (French Occupation)	1920–1921
 * China (French Post Offices)	1894–1922
 * Cilicia (French Occupation)	1918–1921
 * Crete (French Post Offices)	1902–1913
 * Dedeagatz (French Post Office)	1893–1914
 * Egypt (French Post Offices)	1899–1931
 * Ethiopia (French Post Offices)	1906–1908
 * French Volunteers against Bolshevism(French Post Offices)	1941–1944
 * Japan (French Post Offices)	1865–1880
 * Kavalla (French Post Office)	1893–1914
 * Klaipėda	1923 only
 * Korce (Koritza)	1917–1919
 * Madagascar (French Post Offices)	1885–1896
 * Majunga (French Post Office)	1895 only
 * Memel (French Administration)	1920–1923
 * Morocco (French Post Offices)	1862–1914
 * Port Lagos (French Post Office)	1893–1898
 * Port Said (French Post Office)	1899–1931
 * Syria (French Occupation)	1919–1924
 * Tangier (French Post Office)	1918–1942
 * Saar (French Administration)	1920–1935
 * Tientsin (French Post Office)	1903–1922
 * Vathy (French Post Offices)	1893–1914
 * Zanzibar (French Post Office)	1889–1904
 * French post offices in the Turkish Empire	1885–1923
 * Postage of the Free French Forces in the Levant	1942–1946

Gabon

 * Gabon	1959 –

Gambia

 * Gambia	1869 –

Georgia

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

German Colonies

 * Caroline Islands (Karolinen)	1899–1914
 * German East Africa	1893–1916
 * German New Guinea	1898–1914
 * German Samoa	1900–1914
 * German South West Africa	1888–1915
 * German Togo	1897–1914
 * Kamerun	1897–1915
 * Kiautschou	1901–1914
 * Mariana Islands (Marianen)	1899–1914
 * Marshall Islands (German Colony)	1897–1916

German Post Abroad

 * Albania (German Occupation)	1943–1944
 * Alsace (German Occupation)	1940–1941
 * Alsace-Lorraine	1870–1871
 * Belgium (German Occupation)	1914–1918
 * China (German Post Offices)	1898–1917
 * Dalmatia (German Occupation)	1943–1945
 * Dorpat (German Occupation)	1918 only
 * Eastern Command Area	1916–1918
 * Estonia (German Occupation)	1941 only
 * German Ninth Army Post	1918 only
 * Postage of German Occupation Forces (WW1)	1914–1918
 * German Occupation Issues (World War II)	1939–1945
 * German post offices in the Turkish Empire	1884–1914
 * Laibach (German Occupation)	1943–1945
 * Latvia (German Occupation)	1941 only
 * Lithuania (German Occupation)	1941 only
 * Lorraine (German Occupation)	1940–1941
 * Luxembourg (German Occupation)	1940–1944
 * Macedonia (German Occupation)	1944 only
 * Montenegro (German Occupation)	1943–1945
 * Morocco (German Post Offices)	1899–1917
 * Ostland	1941–1945
 * Poland (German Occupation WW1)	1915–1918
 * Poland (German Occupation World War II)	1939–1945
 * Romania (German Occupation)	1917–1918
 * Serbia (German Occupation)	1941–1944
 * Ukraine (German Occupation)	1941–1944
 * Western Command Area	1916–1918
 * Zante (German Occupation)	1943–1945
 * Zanzibar (German Postal Agency)	1890–1891

German States

 * Baden	1851–1871
 * Bavaria	1849–1920
 * Bergedorf	1861–1867
 * Bremen	1855–1867
 * Brunswick	1852–1868
 * Hamburg	1859–1867
 * Foreign post offices in Hamburg (Danish)
 * Hanover	1850–1866
 * Heligoland	1867–1890
 * Holstein	1850, 1864–1867
 * Lübeck	1859–1868
 * Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1856–1868
 * Mecklenburg-Strelitz	1864–1868
 * North German Confederation	1868–1871
 * Oldenburg	1852–1867
 * Prussia	1850–1867
 * Saxony	1850–1868
 * Schleswig	1864–1868
 * Schleswig-Holstein	1850–1868
 * Postage of Thurn and Taxis (Northern District)	1849–1866
 * Postage of Thurn and Taxis (Southern District)	1852–1867
 * Württemberg	1851–1924

Germany

 * East Germany	1949–1991
 * Germany	1991 –
 * Germany (Allied Occupation)	1945–1949
 * Imperial Germany	1872–1919
 * Third Reich	1933–1945
 * Weimar Republic	1919–1932
 * West Berlin	1948–1991
 * West Germany	1949–1991

Germany (Allied Occupation)

 * American, British and Russian Zones	1946–1948
 * Anglo-American Zones (Civil Government)	1948–1949
 * Anglo-American Zones (Military Government)	1945–1946
 * Baden (French Zone)	1947–1949
 * Postage of Berlin-Brandenburg in the Russian Zone	1945 only
 * French Zone (General Issues)	1945–1946
 * Postage of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the Russian Zone	1945–1946
 * Postage of North West Saxony in the Russian Zone	1945–1946
 * Postage of the Rhineland-Palatinate in the French Zone	1947–1949
 * Russian Zone (General Issues)	1948–1949
 * Saar (French Zone)	1945–1947
 * Saxony (Russian Zone)	1945–1946
 * Postage of South East Saxony in the Russian Zone	1945–1946
 * Thuringia (Russian Zone)	1945–1946
 * Württemberg (French Zone)	1947–1949

Ghana

 * Ghana	1957 –
 * Gold Coast	1875–1957

Gibraltar

 * Gibraltar	1886 –

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

 * Gilbert and Ellice Islands	1911–1975
 * Gilbert Islands	1976–1979
 * Kiribati	1979 –
 * Tuvalu	1976 –

Greece

 * Epirus	1914–1916
 * Greece	1861 –
 * Ikaria	1912–1913
 * Samos	1912–1915

Greek Post Abroad

 * Albania (Greek Occupation)	1940–1941
 * Dodecanese Islands (Greek Occupation)	1947 only
 * Greek Post Offices in the Turkish Empire	1861–1881
 * Kavalla (Greek Occupation)	1913 only
 * Khios	1913 only
 * Lemnos	1912–1913
 * Lesbos	1912–1913

Greenland

 * Greenland	1938 –

Guatemala

 * Guatemala	1871 –

Guinea

 * Guinea	1959 –

Guinea–Bissau

 * Guinea–Bissau	1974 –

Guyana

 * Guyana	1966 –

Haiti

 * Postage stamps and postal history of Haiti 1881 –

Honduras

 * Honduras	1866 –

Hong Kong

 * Hong Kong (British colony)	1862 – 1997
 * Hong Kong, China 	1997 -

Hungary

 * Hungary	1871 –

Iceland

 * Iceland	1873 – 2020

India

 * Postage stamps and postal history of India	1852 –
 * Postage stamps and postal history of the Indian states

Indian Convention States

 * Chamba	1886–1948
 * Faridkot	1879–1887
 * Gwalior	1885–1948
 * Jind	1874–1885
 * Nabha	1885–1948
 * Patiala	1884–1947

Indian Native States

 * Alwar	1877 only
 * Bamra	1888–1890
 * Barwani	1921–1938
 * Bhopal	1876–1949
 * Bhor	1879–1901
 * Bijawar	1935–1937
 * Bundi	1894–1948
 * Bussahir	1895–1896
 * Charkari	1894–1940
 * Cochin	1892–1949
 * Dhar	1897–1898
 * Dungarpur	1932–1948
 * Duttia	1893–1899
 * Hyderabad	1869–1948
 * Idar	1939–1950
 * Indore	1886–1950
 * Jaipur	1904–1948
 * Jammu and Kashmir	1866–1894
 * Jasdan	1942 only
 * Jhalawar	1887–1900
 * Kishangarh	1899–1947
 * Las Bela	1897 only
 * Morvi	1931–1948
 * Nandgaon	1892–1895
 * Nawanager	1877–1895
 * Orchha	1913–1939
 * Poonch	1876–1894
 * Rajasthan	1948–1950
 * Rajpipla	1880–1886
 * Scinde	1852–1854
 * Shahpura	1914–1920
 * Sirmoor	1879–1902
 * Soruth (Saurashtra)	1864–1949
 * Travancore	1888–1949
 * Travancore – Cochin	1949–1951
 * Wadhwan	1888–1892

Indian Overseas Forces

 * China Expeditionary Force	1900–1923
 * Congo (Indian UN Force)	1962 only
 * Gaza (Indian UN Force)	1965 only
 * Indian Expeditionary Forces	1914–1922
 * Indo–China (Indian Forces)	1954–1968
 * Korea (Indian Custodian Forces)	1953 only
 * Mosul (Indian Forces)	1919 only

Indo–China

 * Annam (Indo–China)	1936 only
 * Annam and Tongking	1888–1892
 * Cambodia	1951 –
 * Cambodia (Indo–China)	1936
 * Cochin–China	1886–1889
 * Indo–China	1889–1949
 * Kampuchea	1980–1989
 * Khmer Republic	1971–1975
 * Laos	1951 –
 * NFLSV (VietCong)	1963–1976
 * North Vietnam	1946–1976
 * South Vietnam	1955–1976
 * Vietnam	1976 –

Indo–Chinese Post in China

 * Canton (Indo–Chinese Post Office)	1901–1922
 * China (Indo–Chinese Post Offices)	1900–1922
 * Hoi–Hao (Indo–Chinese Post Office)	1902–1922
 * Kouang–Tcheou	1898–1943
 * Mong–Tseu (Indo–Chinese Post Office)	1903–1922
 * Pakhoi (Indo–Chinese Post Office)	1903–1922
 * Tchongking (Indo – Chinese Post Office)	1903–1922
 * Yunnanfu (Indo–Chinese Post Office)	1903–1922

Indonesia

 * Indonesia	1945 –
 * Riau–Lingga Archipelago	1954–1965
 * West Irian	1963 – 1970
 * Philatelic items of 2018 Asian Games 2018

International Organisations

 * Postage of the Council of Europe	1950 –
 * Postage of the International Court of Justice	1934–1958
 * Postage of the International Education Office	1944–1960
 * Postage of the International Labour Office	1923–1960
 * Postage of the International Refugees Organisation	1950 only
 * Postage of the International Telecommunication Union	1958–1960
 * League of Nations (Geneva)	1922–1944
 * UNESCO	1961–1981
 * United Nations (UN)	1951 –
 * Universal Postal Union (UPU)	1957 –
 * World Health Organisation	1948–1975
 * Postage of the World Intellectual Property Organisation	1982 only
 * Postage of the World Meteorological Organisation	1956–1973

Ionian Islands

 * Ionian Islands	1859–1864

Iran

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

Iraq

 * Iraq	1923 –
 * Mesopotamia	1917–1922

Ireland, Republic of

 * Ireland 1922 –

Israel

 * Israel	1948 –

Italian Colonies

 * Aegean Islands (Dodecanese)	1912–1945
 * Astypalaea	1912–1932
 * Benadir	1903–1905
 * Cyrenaica	1923–1952
 * Eritrea (Italian Colony)	1893–1942
 * Italian Colonies (General Issues)	1932–1934
 * Italian East Africa	1938–1941
 * Italian Somaliland	1905–1936
 * Jubaland	1925–1926
 * Kalimnos	1912–1932
 * Karpathos	1912–1932
 * Kasos	1912–1932
 * Kastellórizo	1920–1932
 * Khalki	1912–1932
 * Kos	1912–1932
 * Leros	1912–1932
 * Lipsos	1912–1932
 * Nisyros	1912–1932
 * Patmos (Patmo)	1912–1932
 * Rhodes	1912–1935
 * Syme	1912–1932
 * Telos	1912–1932
 * Tripolitania	1923–1943

Italian Post Abroad

 * Italian post offices in Africa
 * Albania (Italian Occupation)	1939–1943
 * Benghazi (Italian Post Office)	1901–1912
 * Cephalonia and Ithaca (Italian Occupation)	1941 only
 * Italian post offices in China
 * Constantinople (Italian Post Office)	1908–1923
 * Corfu (Italian Occupation)	1923 only
 * Corfu and Paxos (Italian Occupation)	1941 only
 * Italian post offices in Crete
 * Dalmatia (Italian Occupation)	1919–1923
 * Durazzo (Italian Post Office)	1902–1916
 * Italian post offices in Egypt
 * Ethiopia (Italian Occupation)	1936 only
 * Fiume and Kupa Zone	1941–1942
 * Ionian Islands (Italian Occupation)	1941–1943
 * Italian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire	1873–1923
 * Jannina (Italian Post Office)	1909–1911
 * Jerusalem (Italian Post Office)	1909–1911
 * Khania (Italian Post Office)	1900–1912
 * Lubiana (Italian Occupation)	1941 only
 * Montenegro (Italian Occupation)	1941–1943
 * Pechino (Italian Post Office)	1917–1922
 * Salonika (Italian Post Office)	1909–1911
 * Saseno (Italian Occupation)	1923 only
 * Scutari (Italian Post Office)	1909–1915
 * Smirne (Italian Post Office)	1909–1911
 * Tientsin (Italian Post Office)	1917–1922
 * Trentino (Italian Occupation)	1918–1919
 * Tripoli (Italian Post Office)	1909–1912
 * Valona (Italian Post Office)	1909–1916
 * Venezia Giulia (Italian Occupation)	1918–1919

Italian States

 * Modena	1852–1860
 * Naples	1858–1861
 * Neapolitan Provinces	1861–1862
 * Papal States	1852–1870
 * Parma	1852–1860
 * Piedmont	1851–1862
 * Romagna	1859–1860
 * Sardinia	1851–1863
 * Sicily	1859–1860
 * Tuscany	1851–1860
 * Two Sicilies	1858–1861

Italy

 * Campione d'Italia	1944 only
 * Italian Social Republic	1944–1945
 * Italy	1862 –

Ivory Coast

 * Côte d'Ivoire	1959 –

Jamaica

 * Jamaica	1860 –

Japan

 * Japan	1871 –
 * Ryukyu Islands	1948–1972

Japanese Post Abroad

 * Brunei (Japanese Occupation)	1942–1945
 * Burma (Japanese Occupation)	1942–1945
 * Central China (Japanese Occupation)	1941–1944
 * Honan (Japanese Occupation)	1941
 * Hong Kong (Japanese Occupation)	1945 only
 * Hopei (Japanese Occupation)	1941
 * Inner Mongolia (Japanese Occupation)	1941–1943
 * Japanese Taiwan (Formosa)	1945 only
 * Java (Japanese Occupation)	1943–1945
 * Kelantan (Japanese Occupation)	1942–1945
 * Korea (Japanese Post Offices)	1900–1901
 * Kwangtung (Japanese Occupation)	1942–1945
 * Malaya (Japanese Occupation)	1942–1945
 * Manchukuo	1932–1945
 * Mengkiang (Japanese Occupation)	1942–1945
 * Nangking and Shanghai (Japanese Occupation)	1941–1945
 * North Borneo (Japanese Occupation)	1942–1945
 * North China (Japanese Occupation)	1942–1945
 * Japanese post in occupied China	1941–1942
 * Sarawak (Japanese Occupation)	1942–1945
 * Shansi (Japanese Occupation)	1941
 * Shantung (Japanese Occupation)	1941
 * South China (Japanese Occupation)	1942
 * Sumatra (Japanese Occupation)	1943–1945
 * Supeh (Japanese Occupation)	1941
 * Philippines (Japanese Occupation)	1942–1945
 * China (Japanese Post Offices)	1900–1922
 * Japanese Naval Control Area	1942–1943

Jordan

 * Jordan	1920 –
 * Palestine (Jordanian Occupation)	1948–1950
 * Transjordan	1920–1949

Kazakhstan

 * Kazakhstan	1992 –

Kenya

 * Kenya	1963 –

Korea

 * Korea (Empire)	1884–1910
 * North Korea	1948 –
 * South Korea	1946 –
 * South Korea (North Korean Occupation)	1950 only

Kosovo

 * Kosovo	2000 –

Kuwait

 * Kuwait	1923 –

Kyrgyzstan

 * Kyrgyzstan	1992 –

Labuan

 * Labuan	1879 – 1906
 * Malaysia	1963 –
 * Straits Settlements	1867 – 1979

Latvia

 * Cesis aka Wenden	1863–1901
 * Latvia 1918–1940; 1991 –

Lebanon

 * Greater Lebanon	1924–1926
 * Lebanon	1924 –

Leeward Islands

 * Anguilla	1967 –
 * Antigua	1862 –
 * Antigua and Barbuda	1981 –
 * Barbuda	1922 –
 * British Virgin Islands	1968 –
 * Danish West Indies	1855–1917
 * Dominica	1874 –
 * Leeward Islands	1890–1956
 * Montserrat	1876 –
 * Nevis	1980 –
 * Nevis (British Colonial Issues)	1861–1890
 * St Christopher	1870–1890
 * St Christopher Nevis and Anguilla	1952–1980
 * St Kitts	1980 –
 * St Kitts Nevis and Anguilla	1967–1971
 * St Kitts–Nevis	1903–1980
 * Virgin Islands	1866–1968

Lesotho

 * Basutoland	1933–1966
 * Lesotho	1966 –

Liberia

 * Liberia	1860 –

Libya

 * Ottoman Empire postal administration
 * Foreign postal services in Libya during the Ottoman Empire postal administration
 * Italian Occupation: postal administration 1911–1943
 * British Administration: postal administration in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica 1942–1951
 * French Administration: postal administration in Fezzan 1943–1951
 * Cyrenaica Independent Kingdom: postal administration 1950–1951
 * Kingdom of Libya: postal administration 1951–1969
 * General Posts and Telecommunications Company (GPTC) 1969 –
 * L.A.R. Libyan Arab Republic 1969–1977
 * S.P.L.A.J. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 1977–1988
 * G.S.P.L.A.J. The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 1988 –

Liechtenstein

 * Liechtenstein	1912 –

Lithuania

 * Lithuania 1918–1940; 1990 –

Luxembourg

 * Luxembourg	1852 –