# List of countries that have used postal orders

This is a list of countries that have used postal orders.

## British Empire and British Commonwealth

* Colony of Aden
* Aden Protectorate States
* Alderney
* Anguilla
* Antigua
* Antigua and Barbuda
* Ascension Island
* Australia (classed by issuing state and territory).
* Australian Capital Territory
* The Bahamas
* Bangladesh
* Barbados
* Basutoland (overprinted South African British postal orders issued in Basutoland).
* Bechuanaland Protectorate
* Belize
* Bermuda
* Bophuthatswana
* Botswana
* British Cameroons
* British Central Africa Protectorate
* British Guiana
* British Honduras
* British North Borneo
* British Solomon Islands Protectorate
* British Somaliland Protectorate
* British Virgin Islands
* Brunei
* Colony of Burma
* Canada (classed by issuing province and territory).
* Cape of Good Hope (Cape Colony)
* Ceylon
* Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)
* Ciskei
* Cocos (Keeling) Islands
* Cyprus
* Dominica
* East Africa (classed by country of issue - British Somaliland Protectorate, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar).
* Falkland Islands
* Fiji
* The Gambia
* Ghana
* Gibraltar
* Gilbert and Ellice Islands
* Gold Coast
* Grenada
* Guernsey
* Guyana
* Gwalior
* Colony of Hong Kong
* India
* Isle of Man
* Jamaica
* Jersey
* Jhind
* Kenya
* Lagos
* Lesotho
* Malawi
* British Malaya (classed by issuing state and territory).
* Malaysia (classed by issuing state and territory).
* Malta
* Mauritius
* Montserrat
* Nabha
* Namibia
* Colony of Natal
* New Guinea
* New South Wales
* New Zealand
* Nigeria
* Niue
* Norfolk Island
* Northern Rhodesia
* Northern Territory
* Nyasaland
* Orange Free State
* Orange River Colony
* Pakistan
* Palestine
* Territory of Papua
* Papua and New Guinea
* Papua New Guinea
* Patiala
* Pitcairn Islands
* Queensland
* Rhodesia
* Rhodesia and Nyasaland (classed by colony of issue - Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, and Southern Rhodesia).
* Saint Helena
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Kingdom of Sarawak (from 1908, when the British postal order system was extended there)
* Colony of Sarawak
* Sark
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Singapore
* South Africa
* South African Republic
* Federation of South Arabia
* South Australia
* South West Africa
* Southern Nigeria
* Southern Rhodesia
* Sri Lanka
* Straits Settlements (classed by issuing state and territory).
* Swaziland
* Tanganyika
* Tanzania (classed by whether they were issued in Tanganyika or Zanzibar).
* Tasmania
* Tonga
* Transkei
* Transvaal Colony
* Trinidad
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Tristan da Cunha
* Turks Islands
* Uganda
* United Kingdom (classed by constituent country of issue - England, Ireland/Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales).
* Venda
* Victoria (Australia)
* Western Australia
* Western Samoa
* Zambia
* Zanzibar
* Zimbabwe

## Other countries

* Argentina
* Bahrain
* Bulgaria
* Republic of Burma
* China (Since 1898)
* Colombia
* Dubai
* Ecuador
* Egypt
* Eritrea - overprinted British Postal Orders valid only in Eritrea
* Ethiopia
* France
* Germany
* Iraq
* Israel
* Ireland
* Italy
* Jordan
* Kuwait
* Kingdom of Libya - during the reign of King Idris I
* Luxembourg
* Mexico
* Kingdom of Nepal
* Persian Gulf (GPO agencies)
* Portugal
* Qatar
* Romania
* Russia (at the time of the Russian Empire)
* San Marino
* Southern Yemen
* Sudan
* Thailand
* Transjordan
* United Arab Republic
* United States of America
* People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

## Special military issues

* British Army of the Rhine
* British Forces Post Offices
* Indian Field Force in Egypt