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

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.

• Afghanistan1870 –

• Aitutaki1972 –
• Aitutaki (New Zealand Administration)1903 – 1932

• Albania1913 –
• Ottoman Empire issues 1870 – 1913
• Foreign Post offices in Albania
• Occupation issues

• Algeria1962 –

• Andorra (French Post Offices)1931 –
• Andorra (Spanish Post Offices)1928 –

• Angola1870 –

• Australian Antarctic Territory1957 –
• British Antarctic Territory1963 –
• King Edward VII Land1908 only
• Ross Dependency1957 –
• Victoria Land1911 – 1912

• Argentina1858 –

• Buenos Aires1858 – 1862
• Córdoba1858 only
• Corrientes1856 – 1878

• Armenia (pre–Soviet)1919 – 1923
• Armenia1992 –

• Ascension1922 –

• Australia1913 –
• New South Wales1850 – 1913
• Queensland1860 – 1913
• South Australia1855 – 1912
• Tasmania1853 – 1912
• Van Diemen's Land1853 – 1860
• Victoria1850 – 1912
• Western Australia1854 – 1912

• Austria1850 –

• Austrian post offices abroad
• Austro–Hungarian Military Post1915 – 1918
• Austro–Hungarian Post in the Turkish Empire1867 – 1915
• Crete (Austro–Hungarian Post)1903 – 1914
• Italy (Austrian Occupation)1918 only
• Lombardy and Venetia1850 – 1866
• Montenegro (Austrian Occupation)1917 only
• Romania (Austrian Occupation)1917 – 1918
• Serbia (Austrian Occupation)1916 only

• Azerbaijan1992 –
• Azerbaijan (pre–Soviet)1919 – 1921
• Nakhichevan1993 only

• Azores (Acores)1980 –
• Azores (Portuguese Colonial Issues)1868 – 1931
• Angra 1892 - 1905
• Horta 1892 - 1905
• Ponta Delgada 1892 - 1905

• Bahamas1859 –

• Bahrain1960 –
• British postal agencies in Eastern Arabia1948 - 1960

• Bangladesh1971 –

• Barbados (Historic: Barbadoes) 1852 –

• People's Republic of Belarus 1923
• Belarus1992 –

• Eupen and Malmedy (Belgian Occupation)1920 only
• German East Africa (Belgian Occupation)1916 – 1918
• Germany (Belgian Occupation)1919 – 1920

• Belgium1849 –

• Belize1973 –
• Cayes of Belize 1984 only^[1]
• British Honduras1866 – 1973

• Benin1976 –

• Bermuda1865 –

• Bhutan1962 –

See Czech Republic

• Bolivia1867 –

• Bosnia & Herzegovina1993 –
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (Ottoman Empire) before 1878
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (Austro–Hungarian Empire)1878 – 1918
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (Provincial Issues)1918 – 1921
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslav Regional Issues)1945 only
• Croatian Posts in Bosnia1992 – 1996

• Bechuanaland1965 – 1966
• Bechuanaland Protectorate1888 – 1965
• Botswana1966 –

• Brazil1843 –

• British Antarctic Territory1963 –

• British East Africa1895 – 1903
• British East Africa Company1890 – 1895
• East Africa and Uganda Protectorates1903 – 1922
• Kenya and Uganda1922 – 1935
• Kenya Uganda and Tanganyika1935 – 1963
• Kenya Uganda and Tanzania1965 – 1975
• Kenya Uganda Tanganyika and Zanzibar1964 only
• Tanganyika1922 – 1964
• Uganda Protectorate1895 – 1902
• Zanzibar1895 – 1967

• British Guiana1850 – 1966

• British post offices in Africa – various issues
• Baghdad (British Occupation)1917 only
• Bangkok (British Post Office)1882 – 1885
• Batum (British Occupation)1919 – 1920
• Beirut (British Post Office)1906 only
• British Post Offices in the Turkish Empire1885 – 1923
• British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia1948 – 1966
• Bushire (British Occupation) 1915 only
• Cameroons (British Occupation)1915 only
• China (British Post Offices)1917 – 1930
• China (British Railway Administration)1901 only
• Crete (British Post Offices)1898 – 1899
• East Africa Forces1943 – 1948
• Egypt (British Forces)1932 – 1943
• Eritrea (British Administration)1950 – 1952
• Eritrea (British Military Administration)1948 – 1950
• German East Africa (British Occupation)1917 only
• Iraq (British Occupation)1918 – 1923
• Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation)1946 – 1949
• Japan (British Post Offices)1859 – 1879
• Long Island (British Occupation)1916 only
• Madagascar (British Consular Mail)1884 – 1895
• Mafia Island (British Occupation)1915 – 1916
• Malaya (British Military Administration)1945 – 1948
• Middle East Forces (MEF)1942 – 1947
• Morocco Agencies1898 – 1957
• North Borneo (BMA)1945 only
• Salonika (British Field Office)1916 only
• Sarawak (BMA)1945 only
• Somalia (British Administration)1950 only
• Somalia (British Military Administration)1948 – 1950
• Tangier1927 – 1957
• Tripolitania (British Administration)1950 – 1952
• Tripolitania (British Military Administration)1948 – 1950

• British Virgin Islands1866 –

• Brunei1895 –

• Bulgaria1879 –

• Dobruja (Bulgarian Occupation)1916 only
• Eastern Rumelia1880 – 1885
• South Bulgaria1885 only

• Burkina Faso1984 –
• Upper Volta1959 – 1984

see Myanmar

• Kampuchea

• Cameroun1915 –

• Canada1851–

• British Columbia1865 – 1868
• British Columbia and Vancouver Island1860 only
• New Brunswick1851 – 1868
• New Carlisle, Gaspé1851 only
• Newfoundland1857 – 1949
• Nova Scotia1853 – 1868
• Prince Edward Island1861 – 1873
• Vancouver Island1865 only

• Canal Zone1904 – 1979

• British Bechuanaland1885 – 1897
• Cape of Good Hope1853 – 1910
• Griqualand West1874 – 1880
• Mafeking1900 only
• Stellaland Republic1884 – 1885
• Vryburg1899 – 1900

• Cape Verde Islands1877 –

• Cayman Islands1900 –

• Central African Empire1977 – 1979
• Central African Republic1959 –

• Chad1959 –

• Chile1853 –
• Tierra del Fuego1891 only

• Chinese Empire1878 – 1912
• Chinese Nationalist Republic1949 –
• Chinese People's Republic1949 –
• Chinese Republic1912 – 1949
• Treaty ports
• Amoy 1895 – 1896
• Chefoo 1893 – 1894
• Chinkiang 1895
• Chunking 1894
• Foochow 1895
• Hankow 1893 – 1896
• Ichang 1894
• Kiukiang 1894 – 1896
• Nanking 1896 – 1897
• Shanghai1865 – 1898
• Wei–Hai–Wei date not established
• Wuhu 1894 – 1897
• Tientsin: Treaty port stamps from this city are regarded as bogus.^[2]

• Kirin and Heilungkiang1927 – 1931
• North Eastern Provinces1946 – 1948
• Sinkiang1915 – 1949
• Fukien1949 only
• Hunan1949 only
• Hupeh1949 only
• Kansu1949 only
• Kiangsi1949 only
• Kwangsi1949 only
• Manchuria1927 – 1928
• Shensi1949 only
• Tsingtau1949 only
• Szechwan1933 only
• Taiwan1945 – 1949
• Yunnan1926 – 1933

• Central China (People's Post)1949 – 1950
• East China (People's Post)1949 – 1950
• North China (People's Post)1948 – 1950
• North East China (People's Post)1946 – 1950
• North West China (People's Post)1949 only
• Port Arthur and Dairen1946 – 1950
• Shensi–Kansu–Ninghsia1946 – 1949
• South China (People's Post)1949 only
• South West China (People's Post)1949 – 1950

• Christmas Island, Indian Ocean1958 – 1993
• Christmas Island, Australia1993 -
• Straits Settlements1901 - 1942

• Cilicia (French Occupation) 1919 – 1921

• Cocos (Keeling) Islands1963 – 1993
• Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia1994 -

• Colombia1859 –

• Antioquia1868 – 1906
• AVIANCA1950 – 1951
• Bolívar1863 – 1904
• Boyacá1899 – 1903
• Cauca1886 only
• Cundinamarca1870 – 1904
• Granadine Confederation1859 – 1861
• LANSA1950 – 1951
• New Granada1861 only
• Santander1884 – 1903
• Tolima1870 – 1903

• Comoro Islands1950 –

• Belgian Congo1909 – 1960
• Burundi1962 –
• Congo Free State1886 – 1908
• Congo Republic1959 –

• Zaire1960 – 1971
• Katanga1960 – 1963
• Ruanda – Urundi1924 – 1962
• Rwanda1962 –
• South Kasai1961 – 1962
• Zaire1971 –

• Cook Islands1892 –
• Penrhyn 1902 – 1928, 1973 –

• Costa Rica1863 –
• Guanacaste1885 – 1889

• Crete1900 – 1913
• Cretan Revolutionary Assembly1905 only
• Crete (British Post Offices)
• Crete (French Post Offices)
• Crete (Italian Post Offices)
• Crete (Russian Post Offices)

• Croatia1991 –
• Croatia (Provincial Issues)1918 – 1921
• Croatia (Semi–Autonomous State)1941 – 1945
• Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Croatia)1995 – 1997
• Srpska Krajina (Croatia)1993 – 1995

• Cuba1855 –

• Cyprus1880 –
• Northern Cyprus

• Bohemia and Moravia1939 – 1945
• Czechoslovakia1918 – 1939; 1945 – 1992
• Czech Republic1993 –

• Czechoslovakia1918 – 1939; 1945 – 1992

See Czech Republic

See Benin

• Danzig1920 – 1939

• Denmark1851 –

• Obock (French Colony)1893–1902
• Djibouti (French Colony)1894–1902
• French Somali Coast1902-1967
• French Territory of Afars and Issas1967–1977
• Djibouti, Republic of1977 –

• Dominican Republic1865 –

• Dubai1963 – 1972

See United Arab Emirates

• Ecuador1865 –
• Galapagos Islands1957 – 1959

• Egypt1866 –
• Gaza (Egyptian Occupation)1948 – 1967
• Palestine (Egyptian Occupation)1918 – 1920
• United Arab Republic1958 – 1961

• El Salvador1867 –

• Equatorial Guinea1968 –

• Eritrea

1893-1936 (Italian colony)

1993 –

• Estonia 1918 – 1940; 1991 -

• Swaziland

• Ethiopia1894 –
• Etiopia (Italian occupation) 1936

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

• Stanley Gibbons Ltd, Europe and Colonies 1970, Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 1969
• Stanley Gibbons Ltd, various catalogues
• Stuart Rossiter & John Flower, The Stamp Atlas, W H Smith, 1989
• XLCR Stamp Finder and Collector's Dictionary, Thomas Cliffe Ltd, c.1960

• Overview of Nederland Stadspost Zegels (Dutch City Post Stamps) not listed above
• AskPhil – Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms
• Encyclopaedia of Postal History