A

‘A’ Countries
Abkhazia	Adjara	Adygea	Aegean Islands	Afars and Issas	Afghanistan	Aitutaki	Ajman
Åland	Albania	Alderney	Algeria	Altai	Andorra (French)	Andorra (Spanish)	Angola
Anguilla	Antigua and Barbuda	Argentina	Armenia	Aruba	Ascension Island	Australia	Australian Antarctic Territory
Austria	Azerbaijan	Azores

B

‘B’ Countries
The Bahamas	Bahrain	Bangladesh	Barbados	Barbuda	Bashkortostan	Basutoland	Bechuanaland Protectorate
Belarus	Belgian Congo	Belgium	Belize	Benin	Bequia	West Berlin	Bernera
Bermuda	Bhutan	Bohemia and Moravia	Bolivia	Bophuthatswana	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Botswana	Brazil
Brecqhou	British Antarctic Territory	British East Africa	British Guiana	British Honduras	British Indian Ocean Territory	British Virgin Islands	Brunei
Bug Post	Bulgaria	Burkina Faso	Burma	Burundi	Buryatia

C

‘C’ Countries
Cambodia	Cameroon	Canada	Canouan	Cape Verde	Cayman Islands	Central African Republic	Central Lithuania
Ceylon	Chad	Chechnya	Chile	People’s Republic of China	Republic of China	Christmas Island	Chuvashia
Ciskei	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	Colombia	Comoros	Congo Democratic Republic	Congo People’s Republic	Cook Islands	Costa Rica
Croatia	Cuba	Cyprus	Cyrenaica	Czech Republic	Czechoslovakia

D

‘D’ Countries
Dagestan	Dahomey	Danzig	Davaar Island	Denmark	Djibouti	Dhofar	Dominica
Dominican Republic	Dubai

E

‘E’ Countries
Easdale Island	Ecuador	Egypt	El Salvador	Equatorial Guinea	Eritrea	Estonia	Ethiopia
Eynhallow

F

‘F’ Countries
Falkland Islands	Falkland Islands Dependencies	Faroe Islands	Fernando Po	Fiji	Finland	France	French Equatorial Africa
French Polynesia	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	Fujairah

G

‘G’ Countries
Gabon	Gagauzia	The Gambia	Georgia	German Democratic Republic	German Rocket Society	Germany	Ghana
Gibraltar	Gilbert Islands	Gilbert and Ellice Islands	Greece	Greenland	Grenada	Grenada Grenadines	Guatemala
Guernsey	Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	Guyana

H

‘H’ Countries
Haiti	Honduras	Hong Kong	Hungary

I

‘I’ Countries
Iceland	Ifni	India	Indonesia	Ingushetia	Inhambane	ITU	Interplanetary Postage
Iran	Iraq	Ireland	Isle of Man	Israel	Italian Colonies	Italy	Ivory Coast

J

‘J’ Countries
Jaipur	Jamaica	Japan	Jasdan	Jersey	Jordan

K

‘K’ Countries
Kalmykia	Karabach	Karelia	Karelia (modern)	Kathiri State	Kazakhstan	Kenya	Khakassia
Khor Fakkan	Kiribati	Komia	North Korea	South Korea	Kosovo	Kuril Islands	Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan

L

‘L’ Countries
Laos	Latvia	Lebanon	Lesotho	Liberia	Libya	Liechtenstein	Lithuania
Lourenco Marques	Luxembourg

M

‘M’ Countries
Macao	Macedonia	Madagascar	Madeira	Mahra State	Malawi	Malaysia	Maldive Islands
Mali	Malta	Manama	Manchukuo	Marshall Islands	Mauritania	Mauritius	Mayreau
Mexico	Micronesia	Moldova	Monaco	Mongolia	Montenegro	Montserrat	Mordovia
Morocco	Mozambique

N

‘N’ Countries
Nagaland	Nakhichevan	Namibia	NASA Local Post	Nauru	Nepal	Netherlands	Netherlands Antilles
Nevis	New Caledonia	New Hebrides	New Zealand	Newfoundland	Nicaragua	Niger	Nigeria
Niuafo’ou	Niue	Norfolk Island	Norway	Nyasaland

O

‘O’ Countries
Oman (State)	Oman	North Ossetia	South Ossetia	Outer Islands (Zil Elwannyen Sesel)

P

‘P’ Countries
Pakistan	Palau	Panama	Papua New Guinea	Paraguay	Penrhyn	Peru	Philippines
Pitcairn Island	Poland	Portugal	Portuguese Africa	Portuguese Congo	Portuguese Guinea	Portuguese India

Q

‘Q’ Countries
Qatar	Qu’aiti State In Hadhramaut	Quelimane

R

‘R’ Countries
Ras Al Khaima	Réunion	Rhodesia	Rio Muni	Romania	Ross Dependency	Russia	Rwanda
Ryukyu Islands

S

‘S’ Countries
Saar	Saint Helena	Saint Kitts	Saint Kitts-Nevis	Saint Lucia	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Saint Thomas and Prince Islands	Saint Vincent
Saint Vincent Grenadines	Samoa	San Marino	Sanda Island	Saudi Arabia	Senegal	Serbia	Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles	Sharjah	Sierra Leone	Singapore	Upper Slobbovia	Slovakia	Slovenia	Solomon Islands
Somalia	Somali Coast	Somaliland	South Africa	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	South-West Africa	Spain	Spanish Sahara
Sri Lanka	Staffa	Sudan	Suriname	Swaziland	Sweden	Switzerland	Syria

T

‘T’ Countries
Tajikistan	Tanzania	Tatarstan	Thailand	Timor-Leste	Togo	Tokelau	Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago	Tristan Da Cunha	Tunisia	Turkey	Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	Turkmenistan	Turks and Caicos Islands	Tuva
Tuvalu

U

‘U’ Countries
Udmurtia	Uganda	Ukraine	Umm Al Qiwain	Union Island	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	United Arab Emirates	United Kingdom
United Nations (Geneva)	United Nations (New York)	United Nations (Vienna)	United States of America	Upper Volta	Uruguay	Uzbekistan

V

‘V’ Countries
Vanuatu	Vatican City	Venezuela	Victoria	Vietnam	South Vietnam

W

‘W’ Countries
Wallis and Futuna Islands	Western Australia	WMO

Y

‘Y’ Countries
Yemen Arab Republic	Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen	People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen	Yemen	Yugoslavia

Z

‘Z’ Countries
Zaire	Zambia	Zimbabwe

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Australia: International Space Year
Issued: 19 March 1992

a souvenir sheet of 3 stamps: NGC 7293 (Helix Nebula), M45 (Pleiades) and grand design spiral galaxy NGC 2997

Last Modified: 2010-09-04