>>That list doesn't look like it would be useful for stamp collecting, either. Has Afghanistan not ever issued stamps? Do stamps from the Caroline Islands actually use that name and not U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific (before independence) or Federated States of Micronesia? If "dead countries" are excluded, does that mean that Newfoundland and Nova Scotia still issue stamps?
>
>Not sure about the current Carolines, they've had their own philatelic issues off-and-on, though, that much I know, similar to the Marshalls.
>
>But you're right, the first few entities appear not to have copied. There should also be Aden & Aitutaki, I believe, to name two more. Newfoundland had full country-level status until about 1950, that's why it's there, I guess. Not sure about Nove Scotia, that's definitely in the "dead-country" status.
>
>I'm not the author, though, and I don't know where it came from (somewhere on the web). It was a useful starter for me, at least, to make a little vfp app to computerize my inventory...

The Aden Protectorate was named South Arabia in the early '60s and South Yemen upon independence in the late '60s. It merged, more or less, with "North" Yemen to create Yemen, around 1990. What was Aitutaki? I'm sure that's another old one.