Number of vehicles: cars 22,000 (1989), trucks and buses 12,000 (1989)
Road information: total: 6,787 km; paved: 1,357 km (including 10 km of expressways); unpaved: 5,430 km (1999 est.)
Located in Western Africa, Benin is surrounded by Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Togo. It has a coastal belt, which encompasses four lagoons. There are many rivers in Benin, which leads to dense vegetation.
Beninese number plates in the current 1976 series are made up of one
letter and four digits followed by either two or
three letters. The green diplomatic number plate,
as shown on the right, is made up of two letters
followed by three numbers and another two letters.
The "DY" identifier refers to the region of Dahomey.
The current series of number plates has the country flag on the right hand side. The international organizations have yellow lettering on green number plates.
