Sao Tome & Principe | |||||||
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Issue date: December 29, 1983 Width: 131 mm Height: 180 mm Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXVII From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page. Sao Tome and Principe (1975-) Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 147,865 (1997 estimate). The Portuguese colony of St. Thomas and Prince became the independent Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe on July 12, 1975. It now issues large numbers of topically oriented stamps primarily intended for stamp collectors. |