Kamchatka

Kamchatka, or Камчатка, was a okrug/district of the Russian Federation up to 2007, the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula. See how that works? It is now part of the large Kamchatka Krai, though that won't stop those stamp printers with old Russian geography books, will it?

While Kamchatka is real, it does not issue its own stamps; the stamps appearing since the 1990s supposedly being issued by it are not real. Beginning at that time, old Soviet stamps were surcharged with КАМЧАТКА or КАМЧАТКА ПОЧТА, including various topical images. Topical sheetlets, etc. have followed, inscribed as above or bilingually just in case you mixed up the country with Kamyatka, Oklahoma or something. In 2005, a sheetlet of Bentley autos appeared, oddly inscribed КАМЧАМКА.  File:Kamchatka chess A.jpg|Chess series. File:Kamchatka puppies.jpg|Awwwwww. But, no. File:Kamchatka Spice girls.jpg|Spice Girls sheetlet, because everyone in Kamchatka wants stamps with the legs and crotches of the Spice Girls. 

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