.za .za .za is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Africa. The .za namespace is managed and regulated by the .za Domain Name Authority (ZADNA). Most domains are registered under the second-level domain .co.za. None of the official names for South Africa can be abbreviated to ZA, which is an abbreviation of the Dutch "Zuid-Afrika". Dutch was considered an official language in the Union of South Africa until 1961; it subsequently lost its synonymous status with Afrikaans in 1983. "Suid-Afrika" is the standard spelling in Afrikaans; however, the .sa domain is used by Saudi Arabia. "Zuid-Afrika" has a
Vehicle registration plates of France is geographical. Until 2009, car plates had to be changed whenever the owner moved to another département or bought a car from a person living in a different département. The 1950 format uses a N X NN format, composed of a series of one to four numbers, one to three letters and a two-digit code corresponding to the département where the car is registered. The international code for French plates is "F" (France). Called "" ("vehicle registration system"), shortened in "SIV", the current scheme was adopted in France in 2009 (15 April for new vehicles; 15 October for second-hand ones).