Switzerland
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First day of issue: April 24, 2009
Occasion: 2009 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships,2009,,Switzerland
Width: 141 mm
Height: 148 mm
Quantity printed: 700
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXXIX
Stamp ID = 9206

4 page brochure issued with the release of swi-20090305-s-001. The first 2 pages are half width. The brochure also contains a copy of swi-19900306-s-001, the stamp for the previous IIHF tournament held in Switzerland in 1990. The 2 stamps are date stamped with the opening day of the tournament: April 24, 2009.


From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.

Switzerland (1850-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 7,248,984 (1997 estimate). A land-locked federation in central Europe, situated between France, Germany, Austria and Italy. The country has three official languages: German, French and Italian.

In addition from Wikepedia
Romansh has been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since 1938, and as an official language in correspondence with Romansh-speaking citizens since 1996, along with German, French, and Italian.