Mali | |
![]() Click here for higher resolution image | First day of issue: 1996 Occasion: 1998 Winter Olympics,1998,Nagano,Japan Width: 35 mm Height: 35 mm Perforation: Perforated 13.25 x 13.25 Catalog number: Scott 855 Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXVI Stamp ID = 2950 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. |