Qatar National Day

Today Qatar Celebrates its National Day. A day full of Family Events, Military Parades, Fireworks and much more.

The date has been celebrated since 2007 when it was opted to set the date by an Amiri Decree.

The date has not been commemorated every year by a stamp set, but there have been a number that have:

In 2007 a set celebrating all the Rulers of Qatar was issued (see image below).

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After this set, there were three stamp issues on the 18th of December, but none celebrating the National Day per se.:

• 2008 - Souq Wakif
• 2009 - Qatar Birds
• 2010 - 35th Anniversary of Qatar News Agency

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Then from 2013 there have been 3 issues released on the 17th of December:

• 2013 - New Definitive Series
• 2015 - National Day
• 2017 - National Day

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The last of these is shown below:

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In 2018 although no stamps were issued, a set of 2 commemorative FDC's was issued.

I Love Qatar - a website devoted to all things in Qatar posted a live video of the Parade on the Cornish, you can see it on (Click here to go to the website).