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Foreign vehicles should display an official triptyque country code, either on a sticker
or in a small area at the left-hand side of the registration plate / number plate / license plate,
but sometimes there are also unofficial ones, where people have jumped the gun on the official designation,
or indicate a province with a separate identity:
- ACK - Nantucket Island, island of Massachusetts, USA
- ADK - Adirondack Mountains, in eastern USA
- AK - Alaska
- ALBA - Scotland
- ANG - Angola
- ANU - Antigua and Barbuda
- AQP - Arequipa, Peru
- ARE - Egypt (Arab Republic of Egypt)
- ARM - Armenia
- AS - Saudi Arabia ( Arabie Saoudite)
- AUA - Aruba
- AUST - Australia
- AX - Åland, region of Finland
- BC - British Columbia, province of Canada ?
>LI>BM - Bermuda
- BN - Benin
- BRD - Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
- BRK - Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
- BST - Botswana/Basutoland?
- BXL - Brussels (Bruxelles), Belgium
- BY - Bavaria (Bayern), state of Germany
- BZH - Brittany, region of France (Breizh)
- CAT - Catalonia, region of Spain
- CFS - Djibouti (Côte Française des Somalis)
- CG - Montenegro (Crna Gora)
- CHI - China (People's Republic of)
- CMD - Ambassador (Chef de Mission Diplomatique)
- CMF - Funchal (Madeira) local government (Camara Municipal Funchal)
- CMM - Machico (Madeira) local government (Camara Municipal Machico)
- CR - Czech Republic, c1993
- CRC - Corsica
- CRO - Croatia, c1992
- CSC - Corsica
- CYM - Wales (Cymru)
- CYMRU - Wales
- DEE - Dee Snider, of Twisted Sister and radio talk show host (seen in NE USA)
- DG - German-speaking communities of Belgium (Deutsche Gemeinschaft)
- ECA - Central African Republic (Empire Centrafricaine), unofficial code 1976-1979
- ECO - Scotland (Ecosse) ?
- ECOSSE - Scotland
- EH - Basque Country, region of Spain & France (Euskal Herria)
- EIRE - Ireland (Eire)
- EJA - ?
- ENG - England
- EQ - Equador
- EU - European Union
- FDI - Fiji
- FL - Finger Lakes region of New York state (USA)
- FRL - Friesland, region of Germany & The Netherlands
- F-VL - French Flanders (Frans-Vlaanderen), region of France
- G - Galicia, region of Spain
- GK - Greene King country (after local brewery of Bury St Edmunds, England)
- GRD - Groland, an imaginary country created by French comedians for 7 Jours au Groland on Canal+
- GWL - Greenall Whitley Land (after local brewery of north-west England)
- GZ - Galicia, region of Spain (Galiza)
- HAY - Hay-on-Wye, Wales
- HMB - Half Moon Bay (near San Francisco), California, USA
- HON - Honduras
- IC - Islas Canarias?, island group of Spain
- ICH - Limburg, region of Belgium (from local pronunciation of word for I)
- IN - InterNational
- IOW - Isle of Wight, island of England
- IW - Isle of Wight, island of England
- JB - ?
- JU - Jura, canton of Switzerland
- KA - The King Arthur pub, Walsall, England
- KERNOW - Cornwall, county of England
- KGB - Kollet Gant ar Boeson (Breton for 'completely drunk'); or the Soviet secret service?
- KH - (Kingston-upon-)Hull, England
- KO - Korea (South)
- KOS - Kosovo, c2000
- KS - Kosovo, c2000
- KSA - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- KT - Kuwait
- LAJ - Libya (Libyan Arab Jamahirya)
- LB - Libya: Benghazi
- LF - Libya: Fezzan
- LIB - Lebanon (Liban)
- MAC - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, c1990
- MAL - Malta ?
- MDV - Moldova, c1992
- MDY - Malmedy, Belgium
- MGL - Mongolia
- ML - Malawi
- MSK - Maaseiker Stadskern (in Belgium)
- MV - Martha's Vineyard, island of USA
- MV - Morvan, Burgundy, France
- NC - Nicaragua
- NI - Northern Ireland
- NYC - New York City, USA
- OBX - Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA
- OC - Occitania, region of southern France
- OI - ? (seen in eastern USA)
- OM - Oman
- PC - Cyrillic form of RS = Republic of Srpska, ie Serbian part of Bosnia (Republika Srpska)
- PCK - Cyrillic form of RSK = Republic of Serbian Kraina, ie Serbian part of Croatia (Republika Srpska Krajna)
- PDN - Padania, self-declared state in northern Italy
- PH - [unknown - seen in upstate New York area]
- PICT - Scotland ?
- PR - Puerto Rico
- PRC - China (People's Republic of China)
- RB - Redondo Beach, California
- RCI - Ivory Coast (Republique de la Côte d'Ivoire)
- RL - Liberia (Republic of Liberia)
- ROW - ?
- RPB - Benin (Republique Populaire du Benin), 1970s
- RFC - Cameroon (Republique Federale du Cameroon)
- RS - Republic of Srpska, ie Serbian part of Bosnia (Republika Srpska)
- RSK - Republic of Serbian Kraina, ie Serbian part of Croatia (Republika Srpska Krajna)
- Rüd - Rüdesheim, Germany ?
- RW - Rwanda
- SAR - Sardinia, Italy
- SAT - Saudi Arabia
- SB - Seborga, town and self-declared principality near San Remo, Italy
- SCO - Scotland
- SER - Serbia
- S.Fe - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- SID - Swaziland
- SG - Singapore
- SMOM - Sovereign Military Order of Malta
- SQ - Slovakia, c1993
- SRG - Serbia
- T - Turkey
- TAI - Thailand
- THA - Thailand
- TJ - China (People's Republic of)
- TU - Tunisia
- TX - Texas, state of USA
- TX - Texel, island of Netherlands
- UK - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- UR - Ukraine, c1993
V - Vojvodina, region of Serbia
- VDA - Val d'Aoste, region of Italy
- VL - Flanders (Vlaanderen), region of Belgium
- VT - Vermont, state of USA
- W - Wallonia (Wallonie), region of Belgium
- YKS - Yorkshire, county of England
- ZLD - Zeeland, province of The Netherlands
- ZM - Zimbabwe, 1970s
- ZAIRE - Zaire / Democratic Republic of Congo