Tórshavn, capital city of the Faroe Islands

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Tórshavn is the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands. The city is one of the smallest capitals in the world with only 15,000 inhabitants.

The card pictures… well probably everything Tórshavn has to offer. There are single view cards and multiples. This one is an extreme multiple!  

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Toftir Lighthouse. In 2014 Faroer issued a set of three stamps depicting Lighthouses. 

The Lagoon of Cotonou | Benin

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Cotonou, with about 800,000 inhabitants, is the largest city of Benin. The city is the seat of the government, while Benin's capital Porto-Novo is the seat of the parliament.

The city is cut in two by a canal, the lagoon of Cotonou, dug by the French in 1855. Three bridges are located in this area. Two of them visible on this postcard.

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In 2010 Benin celebrated 50 years of independence. In 1960, Dahomey gained full independence  from France. The country was renamed in 1975 to Benin. 

Two largest cities of Vietnam: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

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The upper three pictures showing Hanoi, the lower three Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon).

Hanoi, meaning ‘between two rivers’ is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. The city is situated in northern Vietnam on the western bank of the Red River.

Ho Chi Minh City is the largest city of Vietnam. Once started as a small fishing village. Today a bustling metropolis with 8 million inhabitants.

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Worship of Hung Kings in Phu Tho province (intangible cultural heritage).

The worship of Hung Kings originates from Hung Kings dynasty in the belief that all Vietnamese people have the same origin “Dragon’s children and Fairy’s grand-children”. 

Wet Tropics of Queensland, Australia

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Wooroonooran is a national park in Queensland, Australia. The area is part of The Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, covering almost 9,000 km² of Australian wet tropical forests. 

The “stamp” on the front of the postcard shows Nandroya Falls, located in Wooroonooran National Park. 

St. Peter's Church, St. George's | Bermuda

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Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean, located off the east coast of North America. Founded in 1612, St George was the first permanent English settlement on the island. St. Peter's Church was established immediately after the founding of the settlement.

The historic Town of St. George, together with its related fortifications, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  

Wartburg Castle | Germany

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Founded in 1067, Wartburg Castle is also one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Germany. It is famous for sheltering Martin Luther while he translated the New Testament into German.Wartburg Castle is a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1999.

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Drei Gleichen stamp (2012). Gleichen is the name of two groups of castles in Germany, thus named from their resemblance to each other (German: gleich = like, or resembling).

Hanseatic town of Tangermünde | Germany

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Tangermünde is a historic town in Germany. Situated near the Elbe river, this 1000-year-old city is still almost entirely encompassed by a town wall. The town was a member of the Hanseatic league, an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe.    

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Reintroduction of fish species: Salmon and Sea Trout (2014). 

Vologda Kremlin | Russia

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Vologda is one of Russia’s Hanseatic cities. Located on the Vologda River, the history of this city dates back to 1147. The Vologda Kremlin was founded as a fortress in 1567 by order of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. By the 1820s the Kremlin walls and towers were dismantled.

 

The Hanseatic League was an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe.

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(left) Part of a set of four stamps about Russian Uniforms. Here you see two other stamps from this set.

Veliky Novgorod Kremlin | Russia

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Situated on the ancient trade route between Central Asia and northern Europe, Veliky Novgorod was Russia's first capital in the 9th century. Surrounded by churches and monasteries, it was a centre for Orthodox spirituality as well as Russian architecture.

 

The Novgorod Kremlin is the most ancient out of the preserved Kremlins in Russia, first mentioned in the chronicle of 1044. Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings is a Unesco World Heritage site.

In medieval time it was the largest centre of international commerce and was the only Hanseatic city of Russia.

Struve Geodetic Arc, Hogland Island | Russia

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The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km. This helped to calculate the exact size and shape of the planet and marked an important step in the development of earth sciences and topographic mapping. The Struve is on the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites since 2005.

Both Russian triangulation points are situated on the small Hogland Island, located in the Gulf of Finland.  

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150 years of County Mail. A special service created for correspondence in areas that did not have government-mail. The first post office was established in the Zemstvo Vetluga County in 1865.

Sucevița Monastery | Romania

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Located at the foothills of the Carpathian Moutains you find Sucevița Monastery.

This Orthodox Christian monastery was built in1581. Both interior and exterior walls are entirely decorated with mural paintings (frescoes).

Together with seven other churches, Sucevita is part of UNESCO World Heritage Site 'Churches of Moldavia'.

Tioman Island | Malaysia

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Tioman Island is a small island located 30 km off the Malaysian coast. The natural beauty of the island is its biggest attraction. Lush tropical jungle covers about 12,000 hectares of the island. The waters around the island are filled with corals of all shapes and colours and home to a vast diversity of sea creatures, including two species of marine turtle. A popular spot for scuba diving.

 

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This amazing bird stamp is part of a set of three stamps issued 2015. This one depicts the Black-crowned night heron. In Malay language a Kuak and in Dutch a Kwak.  

Lamma Island | Hong Kong

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Lamma Island is the third largest island in Hong Kong. Most of the 6,100 inhabitants live in Yung Shue Wan village. The peaceful and tranquil island is the opposite of bustling downtown Hong Kong. There are no cars on the island, and all apartments must be built with a maximum 700 square feet per floor.

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In 2013 Hong Kong Post issued a set of four stamps featuring the artwork of four local disabled artists. The value of the stamp is embossed on the stamp in Braille.

Fruits and Vegetables in the Bahamas

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The Bahamas have excellent soil and a perfect warm climate, giving it some of the best conditions for growing produce in the world. The top fruits and vegetables grown in the Bahamas are cabbage cassava, peppers, avocado and banana.

 

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In 2014 the Bahamas celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Bahamas National Geographic Information Systems Centre (BNGIS). This 50 cent stamp is about hurricane distribution in the Bahamas in the period 1960-2012.

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