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France, district codes
May 1951 - Apr 2009
all plates from the Van Wersch collection

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plate numbers departement town
french license plate 01 Ain Bourg-en-Bresse
french license plate 02 Aisne Laon
french license plate 03 Allier Moulins
french license plate 04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Digne-les-Bains
french license plate 05 Hautes-Alpes Gap
french license plate 06 Alpes-Maritimes Nice
french license plate 07 Ardèche Privas
french license plate 08 Ardennes Charleville-Mézières
french license plate 09 Ariège Foix
french license plate 10 Aube Troyes
french license plate 11 Aude Carcassonne
french license plate 12 Aveyron Rodez
french license plate 13 Bouches-du-Rhône Marseille
french license plate 14 Calvados Caen
french license plate 15 Cantal Aurillac
french license plate 16 Charente Angoulême
french license plate 17 Charente-Maritime La Rochelle
french license plate 18 Cher Bourges
french license plate 19 Corrèze Tulle
french license plate 20 Corse (Corsica, until 1975) Ajaccio
french license plate 2A Corse-du-Sud Ajaccio
french license plate 2B Haute-Corse Bastia
french license plate 21 Côte-d'Or Dijon
french license plate 22 Côtes-d'Armor Saint-Brieuc
french license plate 23 Creuse Guéret
french license plate 24 Dordogne Périgueux
french license plate 25 Doubs Besançon
french license plate 26 Drôme Valence
french license plate 27 Eure Évreux
french license plate 28 Eure-et-Loir Chartres
french license plate 29 Finistère Quimper
french license plate 30 Gard Nîmes
french license plate 31 Haute-Garonne Toulouse
french license plate 32 Gers Auch
french license plate 33 Gironde Bordeaux
french license plate 34 Hérault Montpellier
french license plate 35 Ille-et-Vilaine Rennes
french license plate 36 Indre Châteauroux
french license plate 37 Indre-et-Loire Tours
french license plate 38 Isère Grenoble
french license plate 39 Jura Lons-le-Saunier
french license plate 40 Landes Mont-de-Marsan
french license plate 41 Loir-et-Cher Blois
french license plate 42 Loire Saint-Étienne
french license plate 43 Haute-Loire Le Puy-en-Velay
french license plate 44 Loire-Atlantique Nantes
french license plate 45 Loiret Orléans
french license plate 46 Lot Cahors
french license plate 47 Lot-et-Garonne Agen
french license plate 48 Lozère Mende
french license plate 49 Maine-et-Loire Angers
french license plate 50 Manche Saint-Lô
french license plate 51 Marne Châlons-en-Champagne
french license plate 52 Haute-Marne Chaumont
french license plate 53 Mayenne Laval
french license plate 54 Meurthe-et-Moselle Nancy
french license plate 55 Meuse Bar-le-Duc
french license plate 56 Morbihan Vannes
french license plate 57 Moselle Metz
french license plate 58 Nièvre Nevers
french license plate 59 Nord Lille
french license plate 60 Oise Beauvais
french license plate 61 Orne Alençon
french license plate 62 Pas-de-Calais Arras
french license plate 63 Puy-de-Dôme Clermont-Ferrand
french license plate 64 Pyrénées-Atlantiques Pau
french license plate 65 Hautes-Pyrénées Tarbes
french license plate 66 Pyrénées-Orientales Perpignan
french license plate 67 Bas-Rhin Strasbourg
french license plate 68 Haut-Rhin Colmar
french license plate 69 Rhône Lyon
french license plate 70 Haute-Saône Vesoul
french license plate 71 Saône-et-Loire Mâcon
french license plate 72 Sarthe Le Mans
french license plate 73 Savoie Chambéry
french license plate 74 Haute-Savoie Annecy
french license plate 75 Paris (formerly Seine) Paris
french license plate 76 Seine-Maritime Rouen
french license plate 77 Seine-et-Marne Melun (greater Paris)
french license plate 78 Versailles (formerly Seine-et-Oise) Charleville-Mézières (greater Paris)
french license plate 79 Deux-Sèvres Niort
french license plate 80 Somme Amiens
french license plate 81 Tarn Albi
french license plate 82 Tarn-et-Garonne Montauban
french license plate 83 Var Toulon
french license plate 84 Vaucluse Avignon
french license plate 85 Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon
french license plate 86 Vienne Poitiers
french license plate 87 Haute-Vienne Limoges
french license plate 88 Vosges Épinal
french license plate 89 Yonne Auxerre
french license plate 90 Territoire de Belfort Belfort
french license plate 91 Essonne Évry (greater Paris)
french license plate 92 Hauts-de-Seine Nanterre (greater Paris)
french license plate 93 Seine-Saint-Denis Bobigny (greater Paris)
french license plate 94 Val-de-Marne Créteil (greater Paris)
french license plate 95 Val-d'Oise Cergy/Pontoise (greater Paris)

French overseas regions/departments, collectivities, and territories:

french license plate 971 Guadeloupe Basse-Terre
french license plate 971+SB  Saint Barts Gustavia
french license plate 971+SM Saint Martin Marigot
french license plate 972 Martinique Fort-de-France
french license plate 973 Guyane Cayenne
french license plate 974 La Réunion Saint-Denis
french license plate 975 Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Saint-Pierre
french license plate 976 Mayotte Mamoudzou
french license plate NC Nouvelle-Calédonie (New Caledonia) Nouméa
french license plate P Polynésie française (French Polynesia/ Tahiti) Papeete
french license plate WF Wallis et Futuna Mata-Utu

 

 

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