Official Postcrossing card from Belgium with Algarve scene

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The Algarve is currently the third richest region in Portugal, after Lisbon and Madeira, with a GDP per capita 86% of the European Union average.

Views from Abu Dhabi, UAE

Abu Dhabi  is the capital and the second most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (the most populous being Dubai), and also capital of Abu Dhabi emirate, the largest of the UAE's seven member emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western coast. The city proper had a population of more than 2.45 million in 2014.

Drenthe map, Netherlands

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Drenthe  is a province of the Netherlands, located in the northeast of the country. It is bordered by Overijsselto the south, Friesland to the west, Groningen to the north, and Germany (districts of Emsland and Bentheim) to the east. 

Ameland map, Netherlands

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 Ameland  is a municipality and one of the West Frisian Islands off the north coast of the Netherlands. It consists mostly of sand dunes. It is the third major island of the West Frisians. It neighbours islands Terschelling to the West and Schiermonnikoog to the East. This includes the small Engelsmanplaat and Rif islands to the East.

EUROPE 3D mapcard

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Netherlands mapcard from Postcrossing

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The Netherlands' name literally means " Low Countries ", influenced by its low flat land and geography, with only about 50% of its land exceeding one meter  above sea level .  Most of the areas below sea level are man-made. Since the late 16th century, large areas ( polders ) have been  reclaimed from the sea and lakes, amounting to nearly 17% of the country's current land mass.

Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia

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The  Cameron Highlands   is one of Malaysia 's most extensive hill stations . The size of Singapore , it occupies an area of 712 square kilometers (275 sq mi). To the north, its boundary touches that of teachers ; to the west, it shares part of its border with silver .  Situated at the northwestern tip of Pahang , the "Camerons" is approximately 90 kilometers (56 mi) from Ipoh or about 200 kilometers (120 mi) from Kuala Lumpur . It is the smallest constituency in Pahang .         

Malaysia

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Malaysia has its origins in the Malay kingdoms present in the area which, from the 18th century, became subject to the British Empire. The first British territories were known as the Straits Settlements, whose establishment was followed by the Malay kingdoms becoming British protectorates. The territories on Peninsular Malaysia were first unified as the Malayan Union in 1946. Malaya was restructured as the Federation of Malaya in 1948, and achieved independence on 31 August 1957. Malaya united with North Borneo, Sarawak, and Singapore on 16 September 1963. Less than two years later in 1965, Singapore was expelled from the federation

Sultan Abdul Samad Bldg. Malaysia

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The  Sultan Abdul Samad Building is located in front of the  Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) and the  Royal Selangor Club , by  Jalan Raja  in  Kuala Lumpur ,  Malaysia . The structure takes its name from  Sultan Abdul Samad , the reigning sultan of Selangor at the time when construction began.

Oxford University, Lithuania

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Cities in Lithuania

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Klaipeda, Lithuania

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Klaipėda  is a city in Lithuania situated at the mouth of the Danė River where it flows into the Baltic Sea. It is the third largest city in Lithuania and the capital of Klaipėda County.

Flower card received from Postcrossing

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Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin, Germany

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 The Protestant Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is located in Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm in the centre of the Breitscheidplatz.

The original church on the site was built in the 1890s. It was badly damaged in a bombing raid in 1943. The present building, which consists of a church with an attached foyer and a separate belfry with an attached chapel, was built between 1959 and 1963. The damaged spire of the old church has been retained and its ground floor has been made into a memorial hall.

The Memorial Church today is a famous landmark of western Berlin, and is nicknamed by Berliners "der Hohle Zahn", meaning "The Hollow Tooth".

Castles in Coburg, Germany

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Coburg is a town located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. Its 2005 population was 42,015. Long one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920. Before 1918, it was one of the capital cities in the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and theduchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Bonn Minster Church, Bonn, Germany

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The Bonn Minster  is a Roman Catholic church in Bonn. It is one of Germany's oldest churches, having been built between the 11th and 13th centuries. At one point the church served as the cathedral for the Archbishopric of Cologne. However, the Minster is now a minor basilica.

St. Stephen's Church, Mainz, Germany

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 The Collegiate Church of St. Stephan, known in German as St. Stephan zu Mainz, is a Gothic hall collegiate church located in the German city of Mainz

Heidelberg, Germany

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         Heidelberg  is a city situated on the River Neckar in south-west Germany. The fifth-largest town in the State of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg is part of the densely populated Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region. In 2011, over 149,000 people lived in the city.

Map of Germany thru Postcrossing

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Schwalmtal, Germany

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Schwalmtal is a municipality in the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the river Schwalm, which flows through the area. Schwalmtal is situated approximately 12 km west of Mönchengladbach.