Countries in K - World Stamp Packets

After liberation from the Khmer Rouge regime, Kampuchea (also known as Cambodia) began issuing stamps again in 1980. These first stamps issued after liberation were inscribed "République Populaire du Kampuchéa" or "RPK". A major motion picture, The Killing Fields, served to sensitize people to the g...

Kenya-Uganda-Tanganyika stamps were issued between 1935-1961 by the East African Post and Telecommunications Administration. When the two states of Zanzibar and Tanganyika merged to form one nation in 1964, the region was renamed Tanzania, and the stamps were issued as Kenya-Uganda-Tanzania. These s...

Korea is a country is eastern Asia which borders China and Russia. A formery united nation, it is now divided into two states. The Northern state separated from the South and in 1948 became officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; it has a communist government. At the end of th...

Korea has a postal history going all the way back to 1884. However, at the end of World War II, the country was divided at the 38th parallel into the American controlled South, and the Russian occupied North. At the end of the Korean War, the 1953 armistice kept the country divided at almost the sam...