Stamps can help you learn a lot about different countries, form culture, to lifestyle to their political position. They can help you know important places and wildlife in a country, as well as important people in the country, from its celebrities to the people that the country looks up upon.
There are, in total, 315 different countries, at present, that I have found to have stamps at present, with some countries that are, to this day, making stamps, and some that don’t exist now, and some that are not officially countries, but micro-nations, who claim territory, and make stamps for their territory.
These are: Aden, Aerican Empire, Aitutki, Afghanistan, Åland Islands, Albania, Aldeney, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Aramoana Independent State, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Atlantium, Australia, Australian Antarctic Territory , Austria, Ascension Island, Azerbaijan, Azores, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Barbuda, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brecqhou, British Antarctic Territory, British Guiana, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, British West Florida, Brunei, Buenos Aires, Bulgaria, Bumbunga (Province of Australia), Burkina Faso, Burma (Myanmar), Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Canary Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Cape Verde (Cape Verde), Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chausey, Chile, Chilean Antarctic Territory, China, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Conch Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Coral Sea Islands, Córdoba, Corrientes, Costa Rica, Cote d’lvoire, Christiania, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, North Dumpling Island, East Timor, Ecuador, Egaland Vargaland , Egypt, Elleore, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Flandrensis, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Frestonia, Gabon, Celestial Space, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gurnsey, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Hutt River, Icaria, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jethou, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, King Edward VII Land, Kiribati, North Korea, South Korea, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Ladonia, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberland, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lihou, Lithuania, Lostisland, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Macquarie Island (part of Australian antarctic territory), Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Molossia, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Naminara Republic, Nauru (in Micronesia), Nevis, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, New Zealand, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Nepal, Nicaragua , Republic of Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Ongal (Ecological Danubian Principality) , Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palau, Palestinian Territories, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Penrhyn, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Rainbow Creek, Redonia (Kingdom), Réunion, Rhodesia, Romania, Rose Island (Republic), Ross Dependancy, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa (America), San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Saugeais, Sealand, Seborga, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Georgia Islands, South Sandwich Islands, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Talossa (Kingdom), Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad (Principality -1893 to 1895-), Trinidad and Tobago, Tristan da Cunha,Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Nations (multi country issues), USSR, United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Užupiz (only in joint issues with Lostisland), Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Victoria Land, Vietnam, Vikesland (Vikeslandic Post), Virgin Islands US, Wallis and Futuna Islands, Western Sahara, Wirtland, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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