Postage stamps and postal history of Cambodia
Cambodia used the postage stamps of Indo-China until the early 1950s. In 1949 Cambodia became an associated state of the French Union but gained independence in 1953 and left the Union in 1955.
First stamps
The first stamps were issued in 1951 with Royaume du Cambodge. One of the stamps depicted King Norodom Sihanouk.[1]
Democratic Kampuchea era
The National United Front of Kampuchea took over Cambodia in 1975 and established Democratic Kampuchea. The new regime allowed no civilian private communication and so abolished the postal system. Service resumed in early 1979 when the Vietnam People's Army drove the Khmer Rouge out of the capital Phnom Penh.
People's Republic of Kampuchea era
April 1980 saw the first set of postage stamps issued after the establishment of the People's Republic of Kampuchea.
References
- ↑ Stamps of the World. Stanley Gibbons. 2004. p. 537.
External links
- http://www.cambodiastamps.org/ Cambodia Stamps
- http://cambodiaphilately.blogspot.com/ Cambodia Philately
- http://www.sicp-online.org/ Society of Indo-China Philatelists
- The Post Offices of Phnom Penh.
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