Mali
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First day of issue: January 10, 1972
Width: 165 mm
Height: 90 mm
Cachet maker: Unknown
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXVI
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Mali (1959-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 9,945,383. A republic in West Africa. Formerly the French Sudan, Mali joined Senegal in 1959 to form the independent Federation of Mali. Senegal withdrew from the federation in 1960, and Mali, which called itself the Sudanese Republic during its union with Senegal, proclaimed its independence as the Republic of Mali.