VIETNAM

VIETNAM / VIỆT NAM.

Definitive stamps.
Bangour Waterfall, Đà Lạt.
First stamp in a set of 13, issued on 06.06.1951.
Face value: 10 French Indochinese cents.
Design: Đỗ Hoàng Kế.
Printed by Hélio Vaugirard, Paris.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 5,000,000 copies.
Size: 40 x 25.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 61 (South Vietnam).
- Scott No. 1 (South Vietnam).
- StampWorld No. 1 (Period of Emperor Bảo Đại).
- Stanley Gibbons No. 61.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1.

Đà Lạt is a city, capital of Lâm Đồng province, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam (at an altitude of 1,500 m, 4,900 ft above sea level), founded between 1907 and 1912 as a vacation town by the French colonizers with the name of Dalat. Its population, in 2010, was 211,696 inhabitants. It is crossed by the Cam Ly river, in whose course several waterfalls are formed, like the one represented in the stamp. It is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Vietnam.