Czechia
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Occasion: 2010 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships,2010,,Germany
Width: 148 mm
Height: 105 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XLII
Stamp ID = 5558
Celebrating Czech Republic winning a gold medal for the second time in the IIHF ice hockey tournament. The first win was as Czechoslovakia in 1947. Gustav BubnÃk played on the 1947 gold medal winning team.
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Czech Republic (1993- )
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 10,318,958. A republic in central Europe, comprising the Czech portion of the former Czechoslovakia, corresponding to the historic Bohemia.