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Thursday, 9 October 2014

#52: Third postcard from Bangladesh

Historical Shat Gombuj Mosque

Bird stamps

Received from Sumanto from Rajshahi with the help of Monika from Hastings, Barbados. Please check out their blogs.

Bangladesh is the most crowded country on earth, with 2,639 people per square mile.

Saturday, 6 September 2014

#78: First cover from India

Building stamps

Received from Som from Kolkata. Please check out his blog here.

There are 152,792 post offices in India.

Friday, 11 July 2014

#176: Second postcard from Pakistan

Ratti Gali Lake

People, commemorative and landscape stamps

Received from Faisal from Rawalpindi. Please check out his blog here.

Pakistan's national flower is the jasmine.

Thursday, 10 July 2014

#176: First postcard from Pakistan

Snow Lake
People and church stamps

Received from Faisal from Rawalpindi. Please check out his blog here.

Pakistan is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west and north, Iran to the southwest and China in the far northeast.

Thursday, 27 March 2014

#143: First postcard from Sri Lanka

Festive

Aviation, people and architecture stamps

Received from Sarath from Kadugannawa.

Sri Lanka has maritime borders with India to the northwest and the Maldives to the southwest.

Thursday, 26 September 2013

#78: Third postcard from India

Map of India

People and building stamps

Received from Piyali from New Delhi.

India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China,Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

#78: Second postcard from India

Kolkata trams

People stamps

Received from Abbas from Lagos, Nigeria.

India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China,Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

#78: First postcard from India

The Taj Mahal

People stamps

Received from Abbas from Lagos, Nigeria.

India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China,Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Monday, 23 September 2013

#52: First and second postcards from Bangladesh

Bangladeshi flag

Bangladeshi flag


Sixty Dome Mosque and Port of Chittagong stamps


Received from Foysal from Tangail in an envelope.

Bangladesh is bordered by the Republic of India to its north, west and east, by the Union of Myanmar (Burma) to its south-east and by the Bay of Bengal to its south.