# Compendium of postage stamp issuers (F)

Each "article" in this category is a collection of entries about several stamp issuers, presented in alphabetical order. The entries are formulated on the micro model and so provide summary information about all known issuers.
See the Category:Compendium of postage stamp issuers page for details of the project.

## Falkland Islands
### Dates

    1878 –

### Capital

    Port Stanley

### Currency

    (1878) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound
    (1971) 100 pence = 1 pound

### See also

    British Antarctic Territory;
    Falkland Islands Dependencies;
    South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands

## Falkland Islands Dependencies
### Dates

    1946 –

### Currency

    (1946) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound
    (1971) 100 pence = 1 pound

### Main Article

    Postage stamps and postal history of the Falkland Islands Dependencies

### Includes

    Graham Land (Falkland Island Dependencies);
    South Georgia (Falkland Islands Dependencies);
    South Orkneys (Falkland Islands Dependencies);
    South Shetlands (Falkland Islands Dependencies)

### See also

    British Antarctic Territory;
    Falkland Islands;
    South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands

## Far Eastern Republic
### Dates

    1920 – 1922

### Capital

    Vladivostok

### Currency

    100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble

### Refer

    Russian Civil War Issues

## Faridkot
### Dates

    1879 – 1887

### Currency

    (1879) 1 folus = 1 paisa = 1/4 anna
    (1886) 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee

### Refer

    Faridkot in Indian Convention states

## Faroe Islands
### Dates

    1976 –

### Capital

    Thorshavn

### Currency

    100 ore = 1 krone

### Main article

    Postage stamps and postal history of the Faroe Islands

## Farquhar
### Refer

    Zil Elwannyen Sesel

## Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
### Refer

    Yugoslavia

## Federated Malay States
### Dates

    1900 – 1935

### Capital

    Kuala Lumpur

### Currency

    100 cents = 1 dollar

### See also

    Malaysia

## Fernando Poo

Now called Bioko (also spelled Bioco), Fernando Poo is an island off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. Formerly part of Spanish Guinea, it is now part of Equatorial Guinea.

### Dates

    1868 – 1968

### Capital

    Santa Isabel

### Currency

    100 centimos = 1 peseta

### Refer

    Spanish Guinea

## Fezzan
### Dates

    1943 – 1951

### Capital

    Sabha

### Currency

    French (100 centimes = 1 franc)

### Includes

    Ghadames

### See also

    Algeria;
    Cyrenaica;
    French Occupation Issues;
    Libya;
    Tripolitania

## Fezzan (French Occupation)
### Refer

    Fezzan

## Fiji
### Dates

    1870 –

### Capital

    Suva

### Currency

    (1870) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound
    (1969) 100 cents = 1 dollar

### Main Article

    Postage stamps and postal history of Fiji

## Finland
### Dates

    1856 –

### Capital

    Helsinki

### Currency

    (1856) 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
    (1865) 100 penni = 1 markka
    (1963) 100 old marks = 1 new mark
    (2002) 100 cent = 1 euro

### Main Article

    Postage stamps and postal history of Finland

## Finnish Occupation Issues
### Includes

    Aunus (Finnish Occupation);
    Eastern Karelia (Finnish Occupation)

## Fiume
### Includes

    Arbe;
    Fiume (Free State);
    Fiume (Yugoslav Occupation);
    Veglia

## Fiume (Free State)
### Dates

    1918 – 1924

### Capital

    Fiume

### Currency

    (1918) 100 Fillér = 1 krone
    (1919) 100 centesimi = 1 corona
    (1920) 100 centesimi = 1 lira

### Refer

    Fiume

## Fiume (Yugoslav Occupation)
### Dates

    1945 – 1947

### Currency

    100 centesimi = 1 lira

### Refer

    Fiume

## Fiume & Kupa Zone (Italian Occupation)
### Dates

    1941 – 1942

### Currency

    100 paras = 1 dinar

### Refer

    Italian Occupation Issues

## Formosa
### Refer

    Chinese Nationalist Republic (Taiwan);
    Taiwan

## France
### Dates

    1849 –

### Capital

    Paris

### Currency

    (1849) 100 centimes = 1 franc
    (2002) 100 cent = 1 euro

### Main Article

    Postage stamps and postal history of France

## Free French Forces in the Levant
### Dates

    1942 – 1946

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### Refer

    French Occupation Issues

## French Colonies
### Dates

    1859 – 1886

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### Includes

    French Committee of National Liberation

## French Committee of National Liberation
### Dates

    1943 – 1945

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### Refer

    French Colonies

## French Community
### Refer

    French Colonies

## French Congo
### Dates

    1891 – 1906

### Capital

    Brazzaville

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### See also

    Congo Republic;
    French Equatorial Africa;
    Middle Congo

## French Equatorial Africa (AEF)
### Dates

    1936 – 1958

### Capital

    Brazzaville

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### See also

    Central African Republic;
    Chad;
    Congo Republic;
    French Congo;
    Gabon;
    Middle Congo;
    Oubangui–Chari

## French Guiana
### Dates

    1886 – 1947

### Capital

    Cayenne

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### Includes

    Inini

## French Guinea
### Dates

    1892 – 1944

### Capital

    Conakry

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### See also

    French West Africa;
    Guinea

## French Indian Settlements
### Dates

    1892 – 1954

### Currency

    (1892) 100 centimes = 1 franc
    (1923) 24 caches = 1 fanon; 8 fanons = 1 rupee

### Main Article
## French Levant
### Refer

    French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire

## French Morocco
### Dates

    1914 – 1956

### Capital

    Rabat

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### Includes

    French Protectorate, Morocco

### See also

    Morocco (French Post Offices)

## French Occupation Issues
### Includes

    Arad (French Occupation);
    Castelrosso (French Occupation);
    Cilicia (French Occupation);
    Free French Forces in the Levant;
    Korce (Koritza);
    Memel (French Administration);
    Syria (French Occupation)

### See also

    Fezzan

## French Oceanic Settlements
### Dates

    1892 – 1956

### Capital

    Papeete (Tahiti)

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### Includes

    Tahiti

### See also

    French Polynesia

## French Polynesia
### Dates

    1958 –

### Capital

    Papeete (Tahiti)

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### See also

    French Oceanic Settlements;
    Tahiti

## French Post Offices Abroad
### Includes

    China (French Post Offices);
    Ethiopia (French Post Offices);
    Japan (French Post Offices);
    Madagascar (French Post Offices);
    Majunga (French Post Office);
    Morocco (French Post Offices);
    Tangier (French Post Office);
    Tientsin (French Post Office);
    Zanzibar (French Post Office)

### See also

    Crete (French Post Offices);
    Egypt (French Post Offices);
    French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire

## French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
### Dates

    1885 – 1923

### Currency

    French and Turkish both used

### Includes

    Beirut (French Post Office);
    Dedêagatz (French Post Office);
    Kavalla (French Post Office);
    Port Lagos (French Post Office);
    Vathy (French Post Office)

### See also

    French Post Offices Abroad;
    Crete (French Post Offices);
    Egypt (French Post Offices)

## French Protectorate, Morocco
### Dates

    1914 – 1915

### Capital

    Rabat

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### Refer

    French Morocco

## French Somali Coast
### Dates

    1902 – 1967

### Capital

    Djibouti

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### See also

    Djibouti;
    French Territory of Afars & Issas

## French Soudan
### Dates

    1894 – 1944

### Capital

    Bamako

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### Includes

    Senegambia & Niger;
    Upper Senegal & Niger

### See also

    French West Africa;
    Mali Federation;
    Mali Republic

## French Southern and Antarctic Territories
### Dates

    1955 –

### Capital

    Port-aux-Francais

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### Main Article

    Postage stamps and postal history of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories

## French Territory of Afars & Issas
### Dates

    1967 – 1977

### Capital

    Djibouti

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### See also

    Djibouti;
    French Somali Coast

## French West Africa
### Dates

    1944 – 1959

### Capital

    Dakar

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 franc

### Includes

    Dakar–Abidjan

### See also

    Dahomey;
    French Guinea;
    French Soudan;
    Ivory Coast;
    Mauritania;
    Niger;
    Senegal;
    Upper Volta

## French Zone (General Issues)
### Dates

    1945 – 1946

### Currency

    100 pfennige = 1 mark

### Refer

    Germany (Allied Occupation)

## Friendly Islands
### Refer

    Tonga

## Fujeira
### Dates

    1964 – 1972

### Currency

    (1964) 100 naye paise = 1 rupee
    (1967) 100 dirhams = 1 riyal

### Refer

    Trucial States

## Funafuti
### Refer

    Tuvalu

## Funchal
### Dates

    1892 – 1905

### Capital

    Funchal

### Currency

    1000 reis = 1 milreis

### See also

    Madeira