Italy license plates
Format, region codes and a plate generator for Italy.
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How to read the plate
An Italian plate reads AB 123 CD: two letters, three digits and two more letters, without I, O, Q and U. The series is national, so the number itself says nothing about the province. There are blue bands on both sides: the EU stars and the letter I on the left, and on the right a yellow circle with the year of first registration and, below it, the white code of the owner's province of residence. That sticker is optional and may be missing; Rome uses the word «Roma» instead of a code, and Bolzano, Trento and Aosta add a coat of arms.
Region map
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Region codes
111 regions| Region | Code |
|---|---|
| Agrigento | |
| Alessandria | |
| Ancona | |
| Aosta Valley | |
| Ascoli Piceno | |
| L'Aquila | |
| Arezzo | |
| Asti | |
| Avellino | |
| Bari | |
| Bergamo | |
| Biella | |
| Belluno | |
| Benevento | |
| Bologna | |
| Brindisi | |
| Brescia | |
| Barletta-Andria-Trani | |
| South Tyrol | |
| Cagliari | |
| Campobasso | |
| Caserta | |
| Chieti | |
| Caltanissetta | |
| Cuneo | |
| Como | |
| Cremona | |
| Cosenza | |
| Catania | |
| Catanzaro | |
| Enna | |
| Forlì-Cesena Old code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers. | |
| Ferrara | |
| Foggia | |
| Florence | |
| Fermo | |
| Frosinone | |
| Genoa | |
| Gorizia | |
| Grosseto | |
| Imperia | |
| Isernia | |
| Crotone | |
| Lecco | |
| Lecce | |
| Livorno | |
| Lodi | |
| Latina | |
| Lucca | |
| Monza and Brianza | |
| Macerata | |
| Messina | |
| Milan | |
| Mantua | |
| Modena | |
| Massa-Carrara Old code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers. | |
| Matera | |
| Naples | |
| Novara | |
| Nuoro Old code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers. | |
| Oristano | |
| Palermo | |
| Piacenza | |
| Padua | |
| Pescara | |
| Perugia | |
| Pisa | |
| Pordenone | |
| Prato | |
| Parma | |
| Pistoia | |
| Pesaro and Urbino Old code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers. | |
| Pavia | |
| Potenza | |
| Ravenna | |
| Reggio Calabria | |
| Reggio Emilia | |
| Ragusa | |
| Rieti | |
| Rimini | |
| Rovigo | |
| Rome | |
| Salerno | |
| Siena | |
| Sondrio | |
| La Spezia | |
| Syracuse | |
| Sassari Old code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers. | |
| South Sardinia Old code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers. | |
| Savona | |
| Taranto | |
| Teramo | |
| Trentino | |
| Turin | |
| Trapani | |
| Terni | |
| Trieste | |
| Treviso | |
| Udine | |
| Varese | |
| Verbano-Cusio-Ossola | |
| Vercelli | |
| Venice | |
| Vicenza | |
| Verona | |
| Viterbo | |
| Vibo Valentia | |
| Fiume (Rijeka) A former Italian province, now part of Croatia or Slovenia. The code appeared only on plates up to 1945. | |
| Lubiana (Ljubljana) A former Italian province, now part of Croatia or Slovenia. The code appeared only on plates up to 1945. | |
| Pola (Pula) A former Italian province, now part of Croatia or Slovenia. The code appeared only on plates up to 1945. | |
| Zara (Zadar) A former Italian province, now part of Croatia or Slovenia. The code appeared only on plates up to 1945. |
History
In 1905–1927 provinces were shown by numeric codes, and from 1927 to 1994 by a two-letter code at the start of the number (MI 123456, from 1985 MI A12345; Rome spelled out as Roma). In 1994–1999 plates were issued with no province at all, and on 8 February 1999 the code returned as an optional sticker on the right band. Some codes are history: FO became FC and PS became PU, the Sardinian CI, OG, OT and VS existed in 2005–2016, and Pola, Zara, Fiume and Lubiana were former provinces now in Croatia and Slovenia.
