Compendium of postage stamp issuers (F) explained

Each "article" in this category is a collection of entries about several stamp issuers, presented in alphabetical order. The entries are formulated on the micro model and so provide summary information about all known issuers.

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Dates : 1878 –
  • Capital : Port Stanley
  • Currency : (1878) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound
  • (1971) 100 pence = 1 pound
    See also : British Antarctic Territory;
  • Falkland Islands Dependencies;
  • South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands

    Falkland Islands Dependencies

    Dates : 1946 –
  • Currency : (1946) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound
  • (1971) 100 pence = 1 pound
    Main Article : Postage stamps and postal history of the Falkland Islands Dependencies
    Includes : Graham Land (Falkland Island Dependencies);
  • South Georgia (Falkland Islands Dependencies);
  • South Orkneys (Falkland Islands Dependencies);
  • South Shetlands (Falkland Islands Dependencies)
    See also : British Antarctic Territory;
  • Falkland Islands;
  • South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
    Dates : 1920 – 1922
  • Capital : Vladivostok
  • Currency : 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
    • Refer : Russian Civil War Issues

    Faridkot

    Dates : 1879 – 1887
  • Currency : (1879) 1 folus = 1 paisa = 1/4 anna
  • (1886) 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee
    Refer : Faridkot in Indian Convention states
    Dates : 1976 –
  • Capital : Thorshavn
  • Currency : 100 ore = 1 krone
  • Main article : Postage stamps and postal history of the Faroe Islands

    • Farquhar

    Refer : Zil Elwannyen Sesel

    Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia

    Refer : Yugoslavia

    Federated Malay States

    Dates : 1900 – 1935
  • Capital : Kuala Lumpur
  • Currency : 100 cents = 1 dollar
    • Main Article :
    See also : Malaysia

    Fernando Poo

    Now called Bioko (also spelled Bioco), Fernando Poo is an island off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. Formerly part of Spanish Guinea, it is now part of Equatorial Guinea.

    Dates : 1868 – 1968
  • Capital : Santa Isabel
  • Currency : 100 centimos = 1 peseta
    • Refer : Spanish Guinea

    Fezzan

    Dates : 1943 – 1951
  • Capital : Sabha
  • Currency : French (100 centimes = 1 franc)
    • Main Article :
    Includes : Ghadames
    See also : Algeria;
  • Cyrenaica;
  • French Occupation Issues;
  • Libya;
  • Tripolitania

    Fezzan (French Occupation)

    Refer : Fezzan

    Fiji

    Dates : 1870 –
  • Capital : Suva
  • Currency : (1870) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound
  • (1969) 100 cents = 1 dollar
    Main Article : Postage stamps and postal history of Fiji

    Finland

    Dates : 1856 –
  • Capital : Helsinki
  • Currency : (1856) 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
  • (1865) 100 penni = 1 markka
  • (1963) 100 old marks = 1 new mark
  • (2002) 100 cent = 1 euro
    Main Article : Postage stamps and postal history of Finland

    Finnish Occupation Issues

    Main Article :
    Includes : Aunus (Finnish Occupation);
  • Eastern Karelia (Finnish Occupation)
    Includes : Arbe;
  • Fiume (Free State);
  • Fiume (Yugoslav Occupation);
  • Veglia
    Dates : 1918 – 1924
  • Capital : Fiume
  • Currency : (1918) 100 Fillér = 1 krone
  • (1919) 100 centesimi = 1 corona
  • (1920) 100 centesimi = 1 lira
    Refer : Fiume

    Fiume (Yugoslav Occupation)

    Dates : 1945 – 1947
  • Currency : 100 centesimi = 1 lira
    • Refer : Fiume

    Fiume & Kupa Zone (Italian Occupation)

    Dates : 1941 – 1942
  • Currency : 100 paras = 1 dinar
    • Refer : Italian Occupation Issues

    Formosa

    Refer : Chinese Nationalist Republic (Taiwan);
  • Taiwan

    France

    Dates : 1849 –
  • Capital : Paris
  • Currency : (1849) 100 centimes = 1 franc
  • (2002) 100 cent = 1 euro
    Main Article : Postage stamps and postal history of France

    Free French Forces in the Levant

    Dates : 1942 – 1946
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Refer : French Occupation Issues
    Dates : 1859 – 1886
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Includes : French Committee of National Liberation

    French Committee of National Liberation

    Dates : 1943 – 1945
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Refer : French Colonies

    French Community

    Refer : French Colonies

    French Congo

    Dates : 1891 – 1906
  • Capital : Brazzaville
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Main Article :
    See also : Congo Republic;
  • French Equatorial Africa;
  • Middle Congo

    French Equatorial Africa (AEF)

    Dates : 1936 – 1958
  • Capital : Brazzaville
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Main Article :
    See also : Central African Republic;
  • Chad;
  • Congo Republic;
  • French Congo;
  • Gabon;
  • Middle Congo;
  • Oubangui–Chari

    French Guiana

    Dates : 1886 – 1947
  • Capital : Cayenne
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Main Article :
    Includes : Inini

    French Guinea

    Dates : 1892 – 1944
  • Capital : Conakry
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Main Article :
    See also : French West Africa;
  • Guinea
    Dates : 1892 – 1954
  • Currency : (1892) 100 centimes = 1 franc
  • (1923) 24 caches = 1 fanon; 8 fanons = 1 rupee
    Main Article :

    French Levant

    Refer : French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
    Dates : 1914 – 1956
  • Capital : Rabat
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Includes : French Protectorate, Morocco
    See also : Morocco (French Post Offices)

    French Occupation Issues

    Main Article :
    Includes : Arad (French Occupation);
  • Castelrosso (French Occupation);
  • Cilicia (French Occupation);
  • Free French Forces in the Levant;
  • Korce (Koritza);
  • Memel (French Administration);
  • Syria (French Occupation)
    See also : Fezzan

    French Oceanic Settlements

    Dates : 1892 – 1956
  • Capital : Papeete (Tahiti)
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Main Article :
    Includes : Tahiti
    See also : French Polynesia
    Dates : 1958 –
  • Capital : Papeete (Tahiti)
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • See also : French Oceanic Settlements;
  • Tahiti
    Main Article :
    Includes : China (French Post Offices);
  • Ethiopia (French Post Offices);
  • Japan (French Post Offices);
  • Madagascar (French Post Offices);
  • Majunga (French Post Office);
  • Morocco (French Post Offices);
  • Tangier (French Post Office);
  • Tientsin (French Post Office);
  • Zanzibar (French Post Office)
    See also : Crete (French Post Offices);
  • Egypt (French Post Offices);
  • French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
    Dates : 1885 – 1923
  • Currency : French and Turkish both used
    • Main Article :
    Includes : Beirut (French Post Office);
  • Dedêagatz (French Post Office);
  • Kavalla (French Post Office);
  • Port Lagos (French Post Office);
  • Vathy (French Post Office)
    See also : French Post Offices Abroad;
  • Crete (French Post Offices);
  • Egypt (French Post Offices)

    French Protectorate, Morocco

    Dates : 1914 – 1915
  • Capital : Rabat
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Refer : French Morocco

    French Somali Coast

    Dates : 1902 – 1967
  • Capital : Djibouti
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Main Article :
    See also : Djibouti;
  • French Territory of Afars & Issas

    French Soudan

    Dates : 1894 – 1944
  • Capital : Bamako
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Main Article :
    Includes : Senegambia & Niger;
  • Upper Senegal & Niger
    See also : French West Africa;
  • Mali Federation;
  • Mali Republic

    French Southern and Antarctic Territories

    Dates
  • 1955 –
    Capital
  • Port-aux-Francais
    Currency
  • 100 centimes = 1 franc
    Main Article
  • Postage stamps and postal history of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories

    French Territory of Afars & Issas

    Dates : 1967 – 1977
  • Capital : Djibouti
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Main Article :
    See also : Djibouti;
  • French Somali Coast

    French West Africa

    Dates : 1944 – 1959
  • Capital : Dakar
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Main Article :
    Includes : Dakar–Abidjan
    See also : Dahomey;
  • French Guinea;
  • French Soudan;
  • Ivory Coast;
  • Mauritania;
  • Niger;
  • Senegal;
  • Upper Volta

    French Zone (General Issues)

    Dates : 1945 – 1946
  • Currency : 100 pfennige = 1 mark
    • Refer : Germany (Allied Occupation)

    Friendly Islands

    Refer : Tonga

    Fujeira

    Dates : 1964 – 1972
  • Currency : (1964) 100 naye paise = 1 rupee
  • (1967) 100 dirhams = 1 riyal
    Refer : Trucial States

    Funafuti

    Refer : Tuvalu

    Funchal

    Dates : 1892 – 1905
  • Capital : Funchal
  • Currency : 1000 reis = 1 milreis
    • Main Article :
    See also : Madeira

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