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Insect Stamp of Sao Tome & Principe

Sao Tome & Principe is located in West Africa, and is comprising from Sao Tome Island and Principe Island that floats on Gulf of Guinea right on the equator. When a Portuguese went ashore in these islands that were a uninhabited island in 1470, and Portugal gave rule to the beginning afterward as a colony in the 16th century, it let you emigrate led by a Bantu system black forcibly and let you engage in sugar cane cultivation and did it with the staging base of the slave trade. It became the overseas state of Portugal in 1951 and became independent in 1975. Since then, it took the policy of the former Soviet Union breaking out intensively in one spot under one party autocracy, but it abandoned one party autocracy in 1990 and introduced political pluralism and switched it to the pro-Europe and America route.
Four kinds of insect stamps were issued in 1996 by this Sao Tome & Principe. Four kinds of insect stamps were also issued in 2002.

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