Can stamps be browsed by theme

Yes. Stamps are tagged by theme: space, sport, animals, nature, transport, technology, art, history, people and holidays. A theme can replace the country at the first step.

Stamps of the world: how the catalogue works

Q: How many stamps are in the catalogue

80,472 images from 271 countries and territories. The largest sections are the USSR with 6,423 stamps, India with 5,825 and Indonesia with 5,452.

Q: How do you find a stamp by year

Pick the country first, then the period, the year and the series. Issues inside a country are grouped by period, so any year is two or three steps away instead of endless scrolling.

Q: Where do the images come from

From Wikimedia Commons. Soviet issues keep their CPA catalogue numbers, and every card links back to the source page.

Stamps · 3 September 2026

The catalogue holds 80,472 images from 271 countries and territories. To keep that navigable, the entry is two steps: country or theme first, then period, year and series. Any issue is three taps away instead of an endless scroll.

United States stamp: Columbian$4 — Columbian$4, 1892 – United States. Image source

Step one: country or theme

You can start geographically – 271 countries and territories, from vast sections to tiny ones. The fullest: the USSR with 6,423 stamps, India with 5,825, Indonesia with 5,452, Albania with 4,203, Azerbaijan with 3,298 and Belarus with 3,226.

Or start with a theme. Stamps are tagged across eleven directions: space, sport, animals, nature, transport, technology, art, history, people, holidays and everything else. Thematic entry works better when the subject matters more than the state.

Step two: period, year, series

Inside a country, issues are grouped by period, then by year and series. Each period shows its count, so it is obvious where the archive is dense and where it is thin. Soviet issues keep their CPA catalogue numbers for cross-checking against a printed catalogue.

Viewing

From anywhere in the catalogue a fullscreen viewer opens: arrows, autoplay at 3, 5, 8 or 10 seconds, a magnifier and an "I have this" mark. Marked stamps gather in your personal album, which shows what is collected and what is missing.

Where the images come from

Wikimedia Commons. Every card links to the source page, so provenance is always checkable. The archive is independent and non-commercial.

Open it: stamps of the world. Nearby: coins and banknotes, postcards.

Quick answers

How many stamps are in the catalogue?

80,472 images from 271 countries and territories.

How do you find a stamp by year?

Country → period → year → series: three steps, no endless scrolling.

Are there themes?

Eleven: space, sport, animals, nature, transport, technology, art, history, people, holidays and other.

Where do the images come from?

Wikimedia Commons, with a source link on every card.