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The Greek car license plates are composed of three letters and four digits per plate (f.e:AAA-1000). The letters represent the district that issues the plates while the numbers begin from 1000 and reach 9999.The same plates but with digits beginning from 1 and finishing in 999 are issued to motorbikes that exceed 50 c.c. Except Athens and Thessaloniki (Salonica) all other districts are represented by the first 2 letters while the third changes after 8.999 issued plates. For example Patras district plates are AXA-1000, where AX represents the Achaia district in which Patras is the capital.When AXA-9999 is reached the plates turn to AXB-1000 and this continues until AXX is finished. Note that the letters used are only from the intersection between the Latin and Greek alphabets, namely A,B,E,Z,H,I,K,M,N,O,P,T,Y,X (in Greek alphabetical order).
The ones used for overseas residents is L-DDDD and are limited use. Ones that are used for sport utility vehicles (some) and tractors are not part of this system, it uses DDDDD. Until 2003, taxis used L-DDDD and was aligned with the prefecture and was colored red.
History: When license plates were introduced to Greece, they were numbered and in the 1960s, the system was DDD-DDD, they became lettered and the system was LL-DDDD while trucks used L-DDDD until the 1980s, when they changed to LLL-DDDD and uses this present system.
The almost full list of plates in Greece is below (next to the prefecture/district is its capital or an area within the prefecture that the plates are issued;some pefectures have more than one combinations):
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