Burkina Faso
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Width: 128 mm
Height: 164 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume VI
Stamp ID = 156
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Burkina Faso (1984-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 10,891,159. A poor, landlocked republic in the Savannah region of West Africa, formerly the French colony of Upper Volta, bounded by the states of Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast. Following a 1983 coup d'etat, Upper Volta's name was changed to Burkina Faso on Aug. 4, 1984. The name is a transliteration of indigenous words meaning "country of incorruptible men." The first stamps bearing the new name were in an airmail set issued on May 23, 1984.