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Click here for higher resolution image | First day of issue: 2011 Occasion: 2018 Winter Olympics,2018,Pyeongchang,Korea, South Width: 147 mm Height: 100 mm Location: Ice Hockey Volume XXXIX Stamp ID = 6605 Advertising the 23 Winter Olympics in 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The games had just been awarded to South Korea in July of 2011. From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page. China (1878-) Stamp-issuing status: (People's Republic) active, (Empire and Republic) inactive; Population: (People's Republic) 1,210,004,956, (Empire and Republic) 462,798,093 (1948). An ancient country occupying a large area in eastern Asia, between Turkestan and the China Sea and stretching from Siberia to Indochina. |