Most common and frequently spotted foreign license plates in your countries

[Corvinus]

In this thread, let's collect information concerning the most commonly seen foreign vehicle registrations in our respective countries. Feel free to add pictures or give reasons why plates of this or that country are on top of the list. It would be also interesting to know whether there are large differences between different vehicle categories (e.g. passenger car / truck).

To start:
In both Hungary and Switzerland, presumably the most common foreign plates (at least regarding passenger cars) are the ubiquitous German ones. Though in Hungary these could already be outnumbered by Romanian, Italian and Spanish plates, chiefly belonging to Romanian guest workers (thru traffic).

For trucks, it is difficult to say ... in Hungary, certainly not Western ones. Romanian plates could lead here as well.

In Germany? Presumably Polish plates (car & truck) - or Dutch for cars in the holiday season

[DanielFigFoz]

In the UK: Belgium, Lithuania and Poland

In Portugal: Luxembourg, France and Andorra

[CNGL]

In my province: French cars, of course. We have France at the other side of the mountains . Though I haven't seen any French car for a while now.

[ChrisZwolle]

The Netherlands: German and Polish license plates. Belgian and French plates are also common, Luxembourg plates are not. Other plates depend somewhat on the region you're in, in the east you'll see many Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian plates, in the north Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian plates are quite common, and in the south Hungarian, Bulgarian and Romanian plates dominate.

[x-type]

if i make average during the whole year, then in HR the most numerous are BIH, I, SLO, D plates. after them are CH, A, H, SRB and i should count TR trucks on A3. in summer season beside mentioned there is a plenty of NL, B, F, DK, S, RO, CZ, SK and PL plates.

[g.spinoza]

In Italy: well it depends. In Trentino Alto Adige, Veneto and Eastern Lombardy German ones outnumber by far any other nationality. In Emilia-Romagna San Marino ones are quite common, while in Marche lots of Dutch cars and Greek trucks (due to Ancona port).

In Germany: I cannot make a comprehensive statement, but in Munich area many nationalities are represented. The most numerous ones are Austrian, Polish and Czech, but Italians also are many.

[Stainless]

In the UK I would say Irish are probably the most common, although Polish might be just as common. After that LT and LV are surprisingly common for their size. France is quite rare for a neighbour and like everywhere else their seems to be more from Luxembourg than Belgium.

[Penn's Woods]

My answer to this is buried somewhere in the other license plate thread. :-)

EDIT: Found it -

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=626

[makaveli6]

In Latvia: Mostly Estonian, Lithuanian, alot of Russian plates in summer, and Polish, German and English plates are also common.

[iMiros]

As logical is, that in the border region of the country will be spotted tables of neighboring states, however, what would be interesting is to sort the tables by the presence of foreign ones that are most commonly encountered by those who have seen only one example. At the same time I think about whole country and not parts of the country. Such data have cross-border service and we can only speculate. In Bosnia like exemple, HR and SRB are dominated neighboring tables, and which one is more spotted difficult to say. Order is continue I think D A SLO I CH S F NL DK B and in the summer season we can see often PL H SK CZE

[DanielFigFoz]

Originally Posted by Stainless

In the UK I would say Irish are probably the most common, although Polish might be just as common. After that LT and LV are surprisingly common for their size. France is quite rare for a neighbour and like everywhere else their seems to be more from Luxembourg than Belgium.

Where abouts in the UK do you live? In London I rarely see Irish plates

[tbh444]

In South Wales I'd say Ireland and France are easily the most common, followed by Germany/Poland, then probably Netherlands/Spain, anything else is only occasional.

[Alqaszar]

Of course, many Dutch plates since I live pretty close to the border, but closely followed by Polish plates. Many British plates around here, too, resting remains of the huge presence of British troops and personnel in this area. Belgium, strangely, not so far away from here, is not so frequent, but also seen a lot.

Btw: You know what happens when you fail the driving test three times in a row in the Netherlands? Well, you're finally allowed to drive, but you have to use yellow coloured number plates.

[Fargo Wolf]

I live in the Canadian province of British Columbia, so I see the following plates:

The Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. I've also seen plates from Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick the Yukon and North West Territories. I have seen, once on each occasion, plates from Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland/Labrador.

From the United States I see the following most often: Washington State, Alaska and California. Less common are Oregon, New York (State), Texas, Georgia (US State) and Louisiana.

From elsewhere in North America (I was living in Northern Alberta at the time): Chihuahua State in Mexico.

From Overseas: Germany and Switzerland. Less often seen: The Netherlands, Denmark and France.

[Stainless]

Originally Posted by DanielFigFoz

Where abouts in the UK do you live? In London I rarely see Irish plates

Bristol. Irish plates are mainly seen on the M4 heading towards Wales. I think also that touristy areas have quite a few Dutch and German plates.

[KiwiGuy]

British plates are the most I have seen here in NZ. Second most common would be the US as I have seen Michigan, Texas, California and Minnesota plates.

[miami305]

In South Florida (Miami Metropolitan Area) I see a lot of Canadian plates, Quebec, Toronto, followed by Mexico City, and some European plates as well.

[ChrisZwolle]

Originally Posted by Alqaszar

Btw: You know what happens when you fail the driving test three times in a row in the Netherlands? Well, you're finally allowed to drive, but you have to use yellow coloured number plates.

You're confusing the Netherlands with France, F means failed for driving test.

[JohnnyFive]

In Scotland number plates from the Netherlands (and to a lesser extent Belgium) are very common especially in the West Highlands perhaps due to the ferry link between Rosyth and Zeebrugge.

[Bad_Hafen]

In Bosnia

Croatian



Serbian



Austrian



Slovenian



German



Switzerland



Sweden



Italy



in summer lot of CZ, PL, SK and H