
ISSUE 175 - July 4, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The World of Stamps:
Island Communities: Reunion
By Geir Sør-Reime
The Indian Ocean island of Réunion is now an overseas Region of France, and as such, it is also part of the European Union and of the Eurozone.
The island has an area of 970 square miles and a population of around 840,000.
Prior to the arrival of the Portuguese around 1507, who named it Santa Apolónia, it appears that the island was uninhabited by men, although it was known to . . .
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