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onemark03

Aussie number plates

Here in Germany number plates denote the county (not the state) the vehicle is registered in with one, two or three letters of the alphabet. (The larger the population, the fewer letters.) Then two or three letters followed by three or four numbers.

It is something of a minor national sport on longer car journeys to guess where vehicles with different plates are from, especially when the name of the county is not the same as the name of the the county seat, e.g. "HD" for Heidelberg denotes the Rhine-Neckar County.

Similarly, it is not always easy to guess where many vehicles registered in eastern Germany come from as those counties are not necessarily well-known here in the west, e.g. "AE" for the Vogtland County in Saxony.

And then there were the number plates from former East Germany (no longer valid). The name of the former "Bezirk" or District was not discernible from the numbers/letters on the number plate. See: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kfz-Kennzeichen_der_DDR_(1953%E2%80%931990) . (German only.)

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