The codes in grey aren't used any more today. Moreover you can find a little number in brackets close to the name of those provinces that changed the code in the past and it points to the corresponding note below.
AG |
Agrigento (3) | AL |
Alessandria | AN |
Ancona |
AO |
Aosta | AP |
Ascoli Piceno | AQ |
L'Aquila |
AR |
Arezzo | AT |
Asti (4) | AU |
Apuania (5) |
AV |
Avellino | BA |
Bari | BG |
Bergamo |
BI |
Biella (7) | BL |
Belluno | BN |
Benevento |
BO |
Bologna | BR |
Brindisi | BS |
Brescia |
BZ |
Bolzano | CA |
Cagliari | CB |
Campobasso |
CE |
Caserta (6) | CG |
Castrogiovanni (3) | CH |
Chieti |
CL |
Caltanisetta | CN |
Cuneo (3) | CO |
Como |
CR |
Cremona | CS |
Cosenza | CT |
Catania |
CU |
Cuneo (3) | CZ |
Catanzaro | EN |
Enna (3) |
FC |
Forlė-Cesena (8) | FE |
Ferrara | FG |
Foggia |
FI |
Firenze | FM |
Fiume (2) | FO |
Forlė (8) |
FR |
Frosinone | FU |
Fiume (2) | GE |
Genova |
GI |
Girgenti (3) | GO |
Gorizia | GR |
Grosseto |
IM |
Imperia | IS |
Isernia (6) | KR |
Crotone (7) |
LC |
Lecco (7) | LE |
Lecce | LI |
Livorno |
LO |
Lodi (7) | LT |
Latina (4) | LU |
Lucca |
MC |
Macerata | ME |
Messina | MI |
Milano |
MN |
Mantova | MO |
Modena | MS |
Massa Carrara (5) |
MT |
Matera | NA |
Napoli | NO |
Novara |
NU |
Nuoro | OR |
Oristano (6) | PA |
Palermo |
PC |
Piacenza | PD |
Padova | PE |
Pescara |
PG |
Perugia (4) | PI |
Pisa | PL |
Pola (2) |
PN |
Pordenone (6) | PO |
Prato (7) | PR |
Parma |
PS |
Pesaro (8) | PT |
Pistoia | PU |
Pesaro-Urbino (8) |
PU |
Perugia (4) | PV |
Pavia | PZ |
Potenza |
RA |
Ravenna | RC |
Reggio Calabria | RE |
Reggio Emilia |
RG |
Ragusa | RI |
Rieti | RN |
Rimini (7) |
RO |
Rovigo | ROMA |
Roma (1) | SA |
Salerno |
SI |
Siena | SO |
Sondrio | SP |
La Spezia |
SR |
Siracusa | SS |
Sassari | SV |
Savona |
TA |
Taranto | TE |
Teramo | TN |
Trento |
TO |
Torino | TP |
Trapani | TR |
Terni |
TS |
Trieste (5) | TV |
Treviso | UD |
Udine |
VA |
Varese | VB |
Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (7) | VC |
Vercelli |
VE |
Venezia | VI |
Vicenza | VR |
Verona |
VT |
Viterbo | VV |
Vibo Valentia (7) | ZA |
Zara (2) |
| (1) |
Roma is the only city that has the full name on the plate because
it's the capital. But I guess that if it had a longer name, it would have
used a two letter combination! Anyway, RM stands for Roma (since RO is
Rovigo) and it's used in some special cases (for example, in the repeater
plates of the trailers).
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| (2) |
You can find in grey the codes of some cities close to
the border between Italy and Yugoslavia than now belong to Yugoslavia, but
were normal Italian provinces: Fiume (FU before 1930 and FM after
1930), Pola (PL) and Zara (ZA).
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| (3) |
In 1927/28 Enna and Agrigento were added,
while Castrogiovanni (CG) and Girgenti (GI) were eliminated
and included in Enna and Agrigento. It's actually just a change of the
name of these two provinces. In the same year Cuneo changed from CU
to CN: the old two letters don't sound very nice in Italian.
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| (4) |
In 1933 Perugia changed from PU to PG and
Latina was added in that same year (at the beginning named Littoria).
Two years later, in 1935, Asti was added.
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| (5) |
In the years between 1939 and 1949 Massa Carrara
(MS) was named Apuania and had AU as origin code. Moreover,
Trieste was eliminated in 1945 and added again in 1954
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| (6) |
Caserta was eliminated in 1927 and reintroduced
in 1945. Pordenone was added in 1967, Isernia in 1970 and
Oristano in 1976.
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| (7) |
The provinces of Biella, Crotone, Lodi,
Lecco, Prato, Rimini, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and
Vibo Valentia were added in 1992.
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| (8) |
In 1999, when the origin code was re-introduced on
Italian license plates, Forlė (FO) became FC (Forlė-Cesena) and
Pesaro (PS) became PU (Pesaro-Urbino).
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