Kouang-Tcheou

What you've never heard of it, shame on you. It was a small french leased territory just north of Hainan, like hong kong it was leased from the Chinese Government for 99 years, unlike Hong Kong it never really prospered.



Normally French Indochina stamps overprinted Kouang - Tcheou were used, however this is one of the few issues which were done in it's own right.

In 1943 Vichy France ceded Kouang-Tcheou back to China, this act however was not recognised by the Free French, however it was again ceded in 1946 to China in return for Chinese Nationalist armies leaving Northern Vietnam.