page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Djibouti
section_title: First stamps
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Djibouti / First stamps
caption_attribution_description: English: An 1894 stamp of Djibouti. Русский: Почтовая марка Джибути 1894 года.
context_page_description: This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Djibouti, known as the French Territory of the Afars and Issas before independence, and as French Somaliland before that.
  Djibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Eritrea to the north, Ethiopia to the west and south, and Somalia to the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
context_section_description: After the French administration was moved from Obock to Djibouti in 1894, stamps of Obock were overprinted DJ or Djibouti.
  A set of definitives inscribed Protectorat Côte des Somalis / Djibouti was issued in 1894.
caption: An 1894 imperforate stamp of Djibouti also marked Protectorat Côte des Somalis.
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