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Western & Central Europe Country specific discussion for: Andorra, Austria, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
Southern Europe Country specific discussion for: Aegean Islands, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegowina, Bulgaria, Campione, Cyprus, Epirus, Fiume, Greece, Ionian Islands, Italy, Yugoslavia, Crete, Croatia, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, East Roumelia, Samos, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Thrace, Trieste, Turkey, Turkish Cyprus, Vatican State etc.
Northern & North-Western Europe Country specific discussion for: Belgium, Central Lithuania, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Iceland, Ireland, Karelia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Netherlands, North Ingermanland, Norway, Sweden
Eastern Europe Country specific discussion for: Belarus, Carpathian-Ukraine, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Modova, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, USSR, West Hungary, West Ukraine
North & Central America Country specific discussion for: Belize, British Honduras, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Hawaii, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, St Pierre & Miquelon, USA
Carribean Islands Country specific discussion for: Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Barbuda, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Danish West Indies, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Grenadines, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St Christopher, St Kitts, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Spanish West Indies, Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands
South America Country specific discussion for: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, Inini, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela
North & East Africa Country specific discussion for: Afars & Issas, Algeria, British East Africa, British Somaliland, Burundi, Cyrenaica, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fezzan, French Somila Coast, Ifni, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, East African Company, Ruanda, Ruanda-Urundi, Somalia, Spanish Morocco, Spanish Sahara, Spanish West Africa, Sudan, Tanganyika, Tangier, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zanzibar
West Africa Country specific discussion for: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Dahomey, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Upper Volta
Southern & Central Africa Country specific discussion for: Angola, Ascension, Botswana, British Territories in the Indian Ocean, Cape of Good Hope, Comores, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Moçambique, Namibia, Réunion, Rhodesia, Saint Helena, Sao Tomé und Príncipe, Seychelles, South Africa, Southwest Africa, Swaziland, Tristan da Cunha, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Australia, Oceania and Antartic Country specific discussion for: Aitutaki, Antarctic, Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Cook Islands, Falkland Islands, Fiji, French Oceania, French Polynesia, Gilbert Islands, Gilbert & Ellice Islands, Guam, Kiribati, Mariana, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonien, New Hebridies, New Guinea, New Zealand, Niuafo’ou Island, Niue, Norfolk Island, Palau Islands, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Penrhyn, Pitcairn, Rarotonga, Ross Dependency, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands, Tahiti, Tokelau Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna Islands
South and South-East Asia Country specific discussion for: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon,India, Indonesia, Labuan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands Indies, Netherlands New Guinea, Northern Borneo, Pakistan, Philippines, Portuguese Indies, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor, Vietnam
Central and East Asia Country specific discussion for: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Batum, China, Georgia, Hong Kong, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Mongolia, Tadjikistan, Taiwan, Tannu Tuva, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Near East Country specific discussion for: Abu Dhabi, Aden, Ajman, Bahrain, Dubai, Fujeira, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sharjah, Syria, Trucial States, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
International Bodies Specific discussion for: World Association for the Development of Philately (WAPD), United Nations (UN), Universal Postal Union (UPU)
General Thematic There are hundreds of themes, including:
Automobiles, cars, motorcycles, buses, road transport
Trains, railways, rail transport
Ships, boats, sea transport
Sports, games, Olympics
Birds Butterflies, moths, insects
Cats and Dogs Flowers Fungi, mushrooms, toadstools
anything else...
If you are a thematic collector, your suggestions for categories are welcome (see inside).