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Insect Stamp of Republic of Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea is a continent part right on the equator and a country comprising Bioko Islands floating in Gulf of Guinea which were able to be sandwiched in between Cameroon and Gabon. A Portuguese went ashore in Bioko Island in the 15th century and since then Portugal took occupation and became a Spanish colony from the 18th century and it passed through entering, a shift to State of foreign countries to a follower again in Spain after it was it with the U.K. territory for temporary period in the 19th century and achieved independence in 1968. An autocracy system bottom, political confusion continued after independence. 1990's begins and takes overseas pressure such as Spain which is an old suzerain and it introduce political pluralism and carry out a general election and it hold a politics return of refugees problem, but comparatively keep the stability government.
The small sheet which consists of 16 kinds of insect stamps in 1978 was published from Equatorial Guinea. Many kinds, such as a kind of Chestnut-color Stag Beetle, American Cockroach, and Large Garden Bumble Bee, are drawn as an insect stamp for the first time and ecological designs, and are one of the favorite stamps.

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