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Click here for higher resolution image Click here to see FDC's | First day of issue: February 04, 2022 Occasion: 2022 Winter Olympics,2022,Beijing,China Width: 160 mm Height: 85 mm Perforation: Syncopated 13.25 x 13.50 Printing method: Lithographed Printer: Cartor Security Printing CSP, Meaucé, France Creative team: Eric Chan, Designer Location: Ice Hockey Volume LVIII Stamp ID = 7091 From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page. Hong Kong (1862-) Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 6.4 million. A peninsula and island at the mouth of the Zhu Jiang River in southeast China. Hong Kong was a British dependency from 1842 to 1997. On July 1, 1997, it was transferred to China, which administers it as a Special Administrative Region. . . . A degree of autonomy remains, however, and Hong Kong continues to maintain its own currency and issues its own stamps. |