There are many automobile powers in Europe, but because of joining the European Union, their license plates are managed in a unified way. The EU license plate looks a bit gaudy, because there are many icons such as EU national logo, national logo and annual inspection logo. Simply put, it is composed of EU country code+city code+country code+annual inspection mark.
EU place names usually consist of EU country code+city code+country code+annual inspection mark, but many EU countries only keep EU country code+city code, as shown in the following figure:
The country code of the European Union is coded by capital letters. A in the picture above stands for Prague, the capital of Czech Republic. Other countries are like this: Austrian code A, Belgian code B, Czech code CZ, German code D, Danish code DK, Spanish code E, French code F, Finnish code FIN, Greek code GR, Portuguese code P and Swedish code S.
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License plates of other countries:
First, German license plates.
The first one to three letters of the De-De license plate are the city code, indicating the place where the car is registered. Generally, it is the abbreviation of the German name of the city. The bigger the city, the less letters are used, such as B- Berlin, F- Frankfurt, H- Hanover, M- Munich, S- Stuttgart, BN- Bonn, IN- Ingostanta (Audi headquarters) and so on.
There is also an H before the Lufthansa Alliance city code, such as HH- Hamburg and HB- Bremen. The city code is followed by the annual inspection mark and the badge of the state where it is located. The following numbers consist of one or two letters and one or four numbers. It can be a serial number issued according to the registration order, or a personalized number selected by the owner. If there is no zero before the number, 1 1 means1,001,so it is not needed.
Second, the Japanese license plate
Japanese private car license plates are written in green on a white background, which is also simple, but it shows more information than China license plates. In addition to the area and license plate number, it also indicates the type and purpose of the car. In Japan, vehicles are classified into 0~9*** 10. Numbers 5~7 represent vehicles with fewer passengers than 1 1, and 502 in the figure represents vehicles. The purpose of a car is to identify signs with Japanese pseudonyms.
Japanese license plates are basically composed of 1+2+3+4, and private car license plates are green on a white background; Commercial vehicle license plate is green on a white background. As shown in the figure:
1, place name, vehicle ownership.
2. Vehicle type, consisting of three digits, mainly depends on the first digit to distinguish the vehicle type. Japan classifies vehicles into 0~9*** 10, and the numbers 5~7 represent vehicles with fewer passengers than 1 1.
3. Purpose: Japan uses pseudonyms to identify the purpose of vehicles, or the only difference between the same model and the same car number in the same area.
4. Car number, usually consisting of 4 digits.
Third, Korean license plates.
South Korea's private car license plate is black on a white background, which is not much different from China's license plate in design, but there is no identification area information. Take the license plate in the picture as an example. The first two digits indicate vehicle types, which are divided into passenger cars, vans, vans and special vehicles. Korean in the middle represents the purpose of vehicles, which are divided into private cars, taxis, freight cars and so on. The last four digits are the specific license plate number.
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