FRENCH SOMALILAND

FRENCH SOMALILAND / CÔTE FRANÇAISE DES SOMALIS (now DJIBOUTI).

Post of Khor Angar.
Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 06.10.1947.
Face value: 60 cents of French Somaliland franc.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 289.
- Scott No. 252.
- StampWorld No. 289.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 397.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 268.

Khor Angar (Khôr ʽAngar, in Arabic خور أنغار) is a strategic location on the coast of the Bab el Mandeb, the strait that separates the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden, in the Arabian Sea (Indian Ocean). It is located in a desert area, very dry and hot, of the Obock region, converted in 1884 into a French colony, which extended to the entire so-called French Coast of the Somalis (French Somaliland). From 1967 the colony was called the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas until June 27, 1977 when the independence of the Republic of Djibouti was proclaimed.