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Most expensive numbers sold
- '5' - £3.5million (Dubai - 2007)
- 'M 1' - £331,500 (2006)
- 'VIP 1' - £285,000 (2006)
- '51 NGH' - £254,000 (2006)
- 'GS 1' - £258,775 (2005)
- 'K1 NGS' - £231,000 (1993)
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Number Plates of Benin
Continent: Africa
Capital: Porto-Novo
Population: 7.5 million
Country ISO code: BJ
Country OVAL code: DY
Driving Side: Right
First license issued in 1976
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.)
Images of Number Plates from Benin
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.
A little about Benin
Benin is located in West Africa. It is bound by Niger to the north, Burkina Faso to the northwest, Nigeria to the east, Togo to the west and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. The country has four natural topographical regions. (1.) A coastal belt which has four lagoons, the Cotonou, Ouidah, Grand Popo and Porto Novo while further north the land rises steeply to a savannah plateau. (2.) The Lama which is a wide marshy depression. (3.) The Atakora Mountains in the northwest and (4.) the eastern plains of Borgu and Kandi which slope to the Niger basin. The country is covered with dense vegetation and has many major rivers which includes the Niger which forms part of the northeastern border with Niger, the Queme which is the longest river, the Mono which forms the border with Togo and the Couffo. Other long rivers which are subject to flooding are the Mekrou, Alibory, Sota and Pandjari. Major Cities (pop. est.); Cotonou 533,000, Porto Novo 178,000, Djougou 132,000, Abomey Calavi 126,000, Parakou 107,000 (1992). Land Use; forested 31%, pastures 4%, agricultural-cultivated 17%, other 48% (1993)