Italian car number plates facts for kids

The current Italian car number plate format

Italian car number plates used to show the place in Italy where the car carrying them has been registered. Now, Italian car number plates have black characters on a rectangular white background, with a small blue part on the right and left. In the current system, which number a car's license gets has nothing to do with where the car's owner lives.

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  Current Italian car registration plate: on white background the nationwide and sequential scheme "AA 000 AA"; on left the common EU design with the country code (I = Italia); on right the year of registration (12 = 2012) and the provincial code (FI = Firenze)

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  A 1994–1998 car plate, without blue strips

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  Italian vehicle rear number plate used from 1951 to 1976, LI is the provincial code of Livorno.

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  1951-1985 Front number plate, note that the digits are before the provincial code. PG is the provincial code of Perugia

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  1976-1985 front and rear Italian car number plates. ROMA is the provincial code of Rome.

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  1985-1994 Italian rear car number plate. VR is the provincial code of Verona.

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  Motorbike number plate from Rome

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  Trailer plate until 2013

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  Registration Plate of Esercito Italiano

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  Registration Plate of Marina Militare

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  Registration Plate of Croce Rossa Italiana

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  Registration plate of Vigili del Fuoco

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  Registration plate of Vigili del Fuoco di Trento

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  Vehicle registration plate of the Order, as seen in Rome, Italy.

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  Old Registration plate of Road Machinery (1992-1994)

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  Registration plate of Protezione Civile provinciale di Bolzano

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  Registration plate of Protezione Civile provinciale di Trento

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  Registration Plate of Corpo di Carabinieri

See also

In Spanish: Matrículas automovilísticas de Italia para niños