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Norway license plate: Export

Issued today 1971 to today. Export plates for car and van, issued by Statens vegvesen. One of 17 Norway license plates.

Norway license plate, Export (1971 to today), sample 74046
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Format, years and the law

Format
99999, for example 74046 (9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
1971 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Export: plates for vehicles leaving the jurisdiction permanently. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
The district digit is the only Norwegian region encoding outside the two letter tables, and it decodes the ISSUING OFFICE, not a destination. Nothing in the string separates them, only the ground colour and this plate's red expiry borders do.
How numbers are issued
THE FIRST DIGIT IS THE ISSUING POLICE DISTRICT, 1 Oslo, 2 Larvik, 3 Kristiansand, 4 Stavanger, 5 Bergen, 6 Trondheim, 7 Troms. In 2004 Oslo exhausted its combinations and restarted its sequence from the beginning, so the digit does NOT support any age inference.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2-11 tredje ledd g: the 45 mm vertical red border on each side, bearing the expiry date, for temporarily imported/exported vehicles. PRIMARY for the design. https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1990-01-25-92/KAPITTEL_2
  2. 2026-07-16): factory-new duty-free vehicles bought for export; issued by the POLICE, mostly Oslo politidistrikt; the seven district digits; introduced in 1971 replacing the Q plates; Oslo's series restarted in 2004. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge

This plate in your app

The series id is no-export-1971. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Norway's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/no \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "no-export-1971")'
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