Farthest license plate you've seen from the jurisdiction you're in

[Road Hog]

I saw Panama plates in Lawton one time.

[Sctvhound]

British Columbia in Charleston, SC. Think I've seen every Canadian province/territory except Nunavut and maybe Yukon.

[Scott5114]

I just saw a Massachusetts plate on I-20 in Louisiana.

[jakeroot]

I saw a Range Rover with Dutch license plates like ten years ago in Puyallup, Washington. It had some kind of camper setup going on.

I saw French plates on some kind of small European caravan somewhere north of Seattle a few years ago.

[CtrlAltDel]

I once saw a Hawaiian license plate and an Alaska license plate in California, both on the same day. That's got to count for something.

[SkyPesos]

Excluding the (decorative, I'm assuming) European style places, I've seen a California plate in Ohio before.

[kkt]

British plates (yes, on a RHD car) in Seattle

[CtrlAltDel]

Excluding the (decorative, I'm assuming) European style places, I've seen a California plate in Ohio before.

You know, now that you mention it, I once saw a Ford Mustang convertible with Illinois license plates, front and back, when I was living in Paris. Oddly enough, a friend of mine from Chicago was visiting me at the time.

It's possible, of course, that the plates were a novelty or perhaps some kind of fraud, but I wonder if they belonged to someone in the military who had the car shipped over.

[Techknow]

I have seen a California license plate in Washington, DC years ago and a DC plate in San Francisco (apparently it would park around my neighborhood from time to time.)

[Rothman]

In the Albany, NY area, I saw an Alaska and Hawaii plate.  More than one of the former.

Saw a Guam plate...but can't remember exactly where in the Lower 48.

[Ted$8roadFan]

In Ontario/Toronto. I saw Yukon And NW Territory plates.

[MATraveler128]

I once saw a Prince Edward Island license plate on a truck while I was going to Boston. I know that’s not far, but I’ve never seen one otherwise. As for contiguous states,   the ones I see least frequently are Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada.

[JayhawkCO]

I saw a Quintana Roo plate the other day in Vegas.

[elsmere241]

I once saw a Nova Scotia plate at the US 301 Welcome Center on the Maryland Eastern Shore.  OTOH, I saw a Florida plate in Arezzo, Italy in 1992.

[STLmapboy]

Saw a Hawaii plate the other day...in Geneva County, Alabama.

[1995hoo]

I have seen a California license plate in Washington, DC years ago and a DC plate in San Francisco (apparently it would park around my neighborhood from time to time.)

California plates in the DC area are extremely common.

[SP Cook]

You know, now that you mention it, I once saw a Ford Mustang convertible with Illinois license plates, front and back, when I was living in Paris. Oddly enough, a friend of mine from Chicago was visiting me at the time.

It's possible, of course, that the plates were a novelty or perhaps some kind of fraud, but I wonder if they belonged to someone in the military who had the car shipped over.

Until the mid 00s, US issued plates for people with Status of Forces rights that said they were issued by the US DOD.  These were US style plates until the mid 90s, Euro style, with the NATO symbol replacing the Euro symbol afterwards. 

Since then they have issued sort of fake Euro plates.  Which is to say they are legal
and just another number in the host country's scheme but are issued tax free and if the cops run the number it just comes back to "US Forces"  rather than a particular person.  Apparently this is for security reasons.

Turning in the local plates is a big check mark anybody shipping out from Europe back to the USA needs on their forms.

[WillWeaverRVA]

I've seen some Alaska plates here in Virginia.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Minnesota. However it was during a carnival parade. On the road, it was (coincidentally) Ukraine. I've also seen Siberia (n.b.: I've self-imposed a ban on saying the real name of that country, it was from St. Petersburg which is not in Siberia proper) in Castile La Mancha.

[epzik8]

I was going to say Yucatan, Mexico for Maryland, but actually it's probably Hawaii.

[CtrlAltDel]

You know, now that you mention it, I once saw a Ford Mustang convertible with Illinois license plates, front and back, when I was living in Paris. Oddly enough, a friend of mine from Chicago was visiting me at the time.

It's possible, of course, that the plates were a novelty or perhaps some kind of fraud, but I wonder if they belonged to someone in the military who had the car shipped over.

Until the mid 00s, US issued plates for people with Status of Forces rights that said they were issued by the US DOD.  These were US style plates until the mid 90s, Euro style, with the NATO symbol replacing the Euro symbol afterwards. 

Since then they have issued sort of fake Euro plates.  Which is to say they are legal
and just another number in the host country's scheme but are issued tax free and if the cops run the number it just comes back to "US Forces"  rather than a particular person.  Apparently this is for security reasons.

Turning in the local plates is a big check mark anybody shipping out from Europe back to the USA needs on their forms.

Thanks for this. I guess that means what I saw was off the books in one way or another.

[LilianaUwU]

I recall seeing a bear-shaped Northwest Territories/Nunavut plate in New Brunswick, which was interesting because I never saw a plate that's not rectangular before.

[Rothman]

I recall seeing a bear-shaped Northwest Territories/Nunavut plate in New Brunswick, which was interesting because I never saw a plate that's not rectangular before.

My neighbor in western MA had the polar bear plate from the Northwest Territories.

[KCRoadFan]

Once in Lawrence, KS, near where I live, I saw a plate from Tabasco in Mexico.

Also, on a trip to New England, I remember seeing a California plate in a town in Vermont.

[ftballfan]

I just got back from a few weeks in the Orlando, FL area, and I saw plates from as far away as Washington state. I also saw a lot of Ontario and Quebec plates