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The current autobahn numbering system in use in Germany was introduced in 1974. All autobahns are named by using the capital letter A, which simply stands for "Autobahn" followed by a blank and a number (for example A 8). The main autobahns going all across Germany have a single-digit number.
German number plates are rectangular, with standard dimensions 520 mm × 110 mm (20 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 4 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) for cars, trucks, buses and their trailers. Plates bearing few characters may have reduced length but must retain the size and shape of the characters.
Autobahns in Germany: One-digit roads are main lines; Two-digit roads are geographically distributed by region: 1 East and Berlin; 2 North (coast regions), Hamburg, Bremen, Kiel, Rostock
B 54 to B 68 in Western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) B 69 to B 83 in Northern Germany (Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) B 84 to B 100 in Central Germany (Saxony and Thuringia) B 101 to B 112 in Northeastern Germany (Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) R 113 to R 125 in Pomerania and Silesia (no longer in Germany)
Bundesautobahn 8 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 8, short form Autobahn 8, abbreviated as BAB 8 or A 8) is an autobahn in southern Germany that runs 497 km (309 mi) from the Luxembourg A13 motorway at Schengen via Neunkirchen, Pirmasens, Karlsruhe, Pforzheim, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg and Munich to the Austrian West Autobahn near ...
[87] [88] Weimar Germany was car-mad, and the number of private vehicles had increased from 130,346 in 1924 to 489,270 in 1932, but the percentage of car owners lagged behind that in other European countries, not to mention the U.S. [12] This was still true in 1937; at best, most Germans could afford a motorbike, not a car, [89] and the ...
However, a number of Bundesstraßen have been extended as expressways (dual carriageways) (colloquially called "Yellow Autobahns"), which can be compared to motorway-grade A roads in the U.K. like the A1(M). Many of these have speed limits of usually 100–120 km/h, others have only an advisory speed limit like autobahns.
Bundesautobahn 9 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 9, short form Autobahn 9, abbreviated as BAB 9 or A 9) is an autobahn in Germany, connecting Berlin and Munich via Leipzig and Nuremberg. It is the fifth longest autobahn spanning 529 km (328.71 mi).