Italy license plates

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Plate types

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EU band

The blue band with the EU flag and the country code I.

No region code

You cannot tell the region from this country's plates.

Series and number

Letters and digits — the registration itself.

County

The first characters are the code of the county where the car is registered: The county where the car is registered is shown separately on 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	AG
Alessandria	AL
Ancona	AN
Aosta Valley	AO
Ascoli Piceno	AP
L'Aquila	AQ
Arezzo	AR
Asti	AT
Avellino	AV
Bari	BA
Bergamo	BG
Biella	BI
Belluno	BL
Benevento	BN
Bologna	BO
Brindisi	BR
Brescia	BS
Barletta-Andria-Trani	BT
South Tyrol	BZ
Cagliari	CA
Campobasso	CB
Caserta	CE
Chieti	CH
Caltanissetta	CL
Cuneo	CN
Como	CO
Cremona	CR
Cosenza	CS
Catania	CT
Catanzaro	CZ
Enna	EN
Forlì-CesenaOld code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers.	FC FO
Ferrara	FE
Foggia	FG
Florence	FI
Fermo	FM
Frosinone	FR
Genoa	GE
Gorizia	GO
Grosseto	GR
Imperia	IM
Isernia	IS
Crotone	KR
Lecco	LC
Lecce	LE
Livorno	LI
Lodi	LO
Latina	LT
Lucca	LU
Monza and Brianza	MB
Macerata	MC
Messina	ME
Milan	MI
Mantua	MN
Modena	MO
Massa-CarraraOld code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers.	MS AU
Matera	MT
Naples	NA
Novara	NO
NuoroOld code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers.	NU OG
Oristano	OR
Palermo	PA
Piacenza	PC
Padua	PD
Pescara	PE
Perugia	PG
Pisa	PI
Pordenone	PN
Prato	PO
Parma	PR
Pistoia	PT
Pesaro and UrbinoOld code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers.	PU PS
Pavia	PV
Potenza	PZ
Ravenna	RA
Reggio Calabria	RC
Reggio Emilia	RE
Ragusa	RG
Rieti	RI
Rimini	RN
Rovigo	RO
Rome	Roma
Salerno	SA
Siena	SI
Sondrio	SO
La Spezia	SP
Syracuse	SR
SassariOld code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers.	SS OT
South SardiniaOld code: no longer issued, seen only on old plates or stickers.	SU CI VS
Savona	SV
Taranto	TA
Teramo	TE
Trentino	TN
Turin	TO
Trapani	TP
Terni	TR
Trieste	TS
Treviso	TV
Udine	UD
Varese	VA
Verbano-Cusio-Ossola	VB
Vercelli	VC
Venice	VE
Vicenza	VI
Verona	VR
Viterbo	VT
Vibo Valentia	VV
Fiume (Rijeka)A former Italian province, now part of Croatia or Slovenia. The code appeared only on plates up to 1945.	FM
Lubiana (Ljubljana)A former Italian province, now part of Croatia or Slovenia. The code appeared only on plates up to 1945.	LB
Pola (Pula)A former Italian province, now part of Croatia or Slovenia. The code appeared only on plates up to 1945.	PL
Zara (Zadar)A former Italian province, now part of Croatia or Slovenia. The code appeared only on plates up to 1945.	ZA

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.