Postage stamps and postal history of Botswana
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Botswana has produced postage stamps for national use since becoming independent on 30 September 1966. The country formerly used the stamps of the Bechuanaland Protectorate. The first independence issue of 1966 included depictions of an abattoir in
Lobatse Lobatse is a town in south-eastern Botswana, 70 kilometres south of the capital Gaborone, situated in a valley running north towards Gaborone and close to the border with South Africa. Lobatse has a population of 29,772 as of 2022. The town is an ...
, Botswana National Airways and the State House in
Gaborone Gaborone ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 246,325 based on the 2022 census, about 10% of the total population of Botswana. Its agglomeration is home to 421,907 inhabitants at the 2011 census. Gaboron ...
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Philatelic Museum

Botswana Post have established a small
philatelic Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting or the study of postage; it is possi ...
museum in their headquarters in Gaborone.Botswana’s “second” museum to stamp its authority
by Bashi Letsididi, ''Sunday Standard'', online edition, 9 September 2007
Archived here.
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See also

* Postage stamps and postal history of Bechuanaland Protectorate *List of people on the postage stamps of Botswana


References


External links


Catalogue of Botswana meter marks.Philately at ''Botswana Post''.Botswana stamps
Communications in Botswana Philately of Botswana {{Botswana-stub