Type C — Europlug
- Pins
- 2
- Spacing
- 19 mm
- Pin length
- 19 mm
- Rated
- 2.5 A
- Earthed
- no
Drawn from pin dimensions at one scale across the whole site — hold a plug against the screen and it should look familiar.
The two-pin workhorse of continental Europe and much of the world beyond it — a flat, unearthed plug standardized as CEE 7/16 for double-insulated, low-draw devices like phone chargers and lamps. Its genius is diplomatic: the slightly convergent 4 mm pins flex enough to make contact in nearly every round-pin socket on the continent, which is why almost no country installs Type C sockets yet almost every European device ships with a Type C plug.
What fits a Type C socket
Only its own plug — nothing else seats in a Type C socket. Type C is really a plug standard, not a socket: the plugs live in E, F, H, J, K, L and N sockets. A dedicated C socket is rare.
Facts verified against IEC World Plugs — Type C. Prose is our own.
Where you'll meet it
- Afghanistan220 V
- Albania230 V
- Algeria230 V
- Andorra230 V
- Angola220 V
- Armenia230 V
- Austria230 V
- Azerbaijan220 V
- Bangladesh220 V
- Belarus220 V
- Belgium230 V
- Benin220 V
- Bhutan230 V
- Bolivia115/230 V
- Bosnia and Herzegovina230 V
- Brazil127/220 V
- Bulgaria230 V
- Burkina Faso220 V
- Burundi220 V
- Cambodia230 V
- Cameroon220 V
- Cape Verde220 V
- Central African Republic220 V
- Chad220 V
- Chile220 V
- Comoros220 V
- Côte d'Ivoire230 V
- Croatia230 V
- Czechia230 V
- Democratic Republic of the Congo220 V
- Denmark230 V
- Djibouti220 V
- Egypt220 V
- Equatorial Guinea220 V
- Eritrea230 V
- Estonia230 V
- Ethiopia220 V
- Faroe Islands230 V
- Finland230 V
- France230 V
- French Guiana220 V
- Gabon220 V
- Georgia220 V
- Germany230 V
- Gibraltar240 V
- Greece230 V
- Greenland230 V
- Guadeloupe230 V
- Guinea220 V
- Guinea-Bissau220 V
- Hungary230 V
- Iceland230 V
- India230 V
- Indonesia220/110 V
- Iran220 V
- Iraq230 V
- Isle of Man240 V
- Italy230 V
- Jordan230 V
- Kazakhstan220 V
- Kuwait240 V
- Kyrgyzstan220 V
- Laos230 V
- Latvia230 V
- Lebanon220 V
- Liberia120/220 V
- Libya127/230 V
- Liechtenstein230 V
- Lithuania220 V
- Luxembourg230 V
- Madagascar127/220 V
- Malaysia240 V
- Martinique220 V
- Mauritania220 V
- Mauritius230 V
- Moldova220 V
- Monaco230 V
- Mongolia220 V
- Montenegro230 V
- Morocco127/220 V
- Mozambique220 V
- Myanmar230 V
- Nepal230 V
- Netherlands230 V
- New Caledonia220 V
- Niger220 V
- North Korea220/110 V
- North Macedonia230 V
- Norway230 V
- Pakistan230 V
- Paraguay220 V
- Peru220 V
- Philippines230 V
- Poland230 V
- Portugal230 V
- Republic of the Congo230 V
- Romania230 V
- Russia220 V
- Rwanda230 V
- Saint Martin120/220 V
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines230 V
- San Marino230 V
- Sao Tome and Principe220 V
- Senegal230 V
- Serbia230 V
- Singapore230 V
- Slovakia230 V
- Slovenia230 V
- Somalia220 V
- South Africa230 V
- South Korea220 V
- Spain230 V
- Sudan230 V
- Suriname127 V
- Sweden230 V
- Switzerland230 V
- Syria220 V
- Tajikistan220 V
- Thailand220 V
- Timor-Leste220 V
- Togo220 V
- Tunisia230 V
- Türkiye220 V
- Turkmenistan220 V
- Ukraine220 V
- Uruguay230 V
- Uzbekistan220 V
- Vanuatu220 V
- Vietnam220 V
- Zambia230 V