# Norway license plate: Standard 2002

> The Norway standard 2002 license plate: format LL 99999, for example PD 85931, 2002 to today, cited to Statens vegvesen.

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Part of [Norway license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/norway) (17 registration series).

![Norway license plate, Standard 2002 (2002 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/no/no-standard-2002/norway-license-plate-standard-2002.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL 99999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2002 → today |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, caravan, tractor, machine |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Other sizes | 340 × 210 mm: stort høyt — two rows, letters above digits; common on the rear of SUVs; 303 × 85 mm: lite smalt — motorcycle, beltebil, beltemotorsykkel, traktor, motorredskap; also cars with no room for the large plate, by application; 220 × 152 mm: lite høyt; 303 × 153 mm: US-skilt — for vehicles built for the American plate aperture; 470 × 110 mm: tilhenger, stort smalt |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left; border #000000 |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `no-standard-2002` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/norway/standard-2002) |

Sources:

- [§ 2-11 (colours, and the delegation of design to Statens vegvesen), § 2-9 (how many plates and where), § 2-13 (sizes), § 2-18 (the predecessor order closes 1 January 2002).](https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1990-01-25-92/KAPITTEL_2)
- [§§ 39-1 (the composition is delegated to Statens vegvesen), 39-10, 39-11, 39-12.](https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1994-10-04-918/KAPITTEL_39)
- [the number ranges 10000-99999 / 1000-9999 and the letter-combination allocation.](https://www.vegvesen.no/kjoretoy/eie-og-vedlikeholde/skilt/skiltserier/)
- [the authority's own size list and the 70 kr / 140 kr plate prices.](https://www.vegvesen.no/kjoretoy/eie-og-vedlikeholde/skilt/bestill-skilt/)
- [2026-07-16): the 2002 digitalskilt font and black border, the 2006 font revision, the 2009-2011 plastic episode, and 'to bokstaver etterfulgt av fem siffer' for cars / four for small vehicles.](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge)

## About this plate

Independently, FOR-2001-07-12-1098 entered into force on exactly 1 January 2002 and rewrote § 2-5 nr. 3 to the effect that "Tildelt kjennemerke skal følge kjøretøyet", the same date from the other side. The FORMAT has indeed been two letters + four or five digits since 1 April 1971, and this file models 1971-1982, 1982-2002 and 2002-onward as three series only because the authority's own regulation does.

## Region code notes

READ THE DECODE FILE'S CAVEATS. Statens vegvesen publishes the allocation but hedges it in its own words, "Bokstavkombinasjonen baserer seg OFTE på hvilken trafikkstasjon som har utstedt registreringsnummeret", six combinations map to two stations each, and geographic distribution stopped altogether for FOUR-DIGIT plates on 9 February 2017. A hit is a low-confidence ISSUING-STATION hint, never a statement about where the vehicle or owner is.

## How numbers are issued

Allocated sequentially at registration and, since 1 April 1971, the number FOLLOWS THE VEHICLE FOR ITS WHOLE LIFE and is not recycled, the opposite of the pre-1971 order, where the number followed the owner.

## Separators

The gap between letter group and digit group is a printed GAP with no glyph, no instrument prescribes a separator, since no instrument prescribes the composition at all.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [Standard 1982](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/norway/standard-1982) | 1982 to 2002 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Rally](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/norway/rally-1996) (documented since 1996)
- [Green varebil](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/norway/green-varebil-1990) (documented since 1990)
- [Off-road](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/norway/offroad-1990) (documented since 1990)
- [Standard 1982](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/norway/standard-1982) (1982 to 2002)
- [Standard 1971](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/norway/standard-1971) (1971 to 1982)
- [County letter](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/norway/county-letter-1913) (1913 to 1971)
- [Numeric 1899](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/norway/numeric-1899) (1899 to 1913)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/no/no-standard-2002.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/norway?series=no-standard-2002
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/no` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "no-standard-2002"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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