Type E
The French
"The socket has a pin sticking out of it. Very French. Very confident."
Type E does things differently. Instead of the plug having a ground pin, the socket has one, a little male pin sticking out that slots into a hole in the plug.
Where you'll find it
France, Belgium, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and many former French territories in Africa and the Pacific.
Things to know
- The hybrid trick. Most modern plugs sold in Europe are "CEE 7/7" hybrids with both a hole (for Type E sockets) and side clips (for Type F sockets). So a German plug almost always fits a French socket, and vice versa.
- Europlugs fit too. Any Type C plug slides straight in.
- Polarised, sort of. Because of the ground pin, a Type E plug only goes in one way. Type F plugs are reversible. Plugbert lets them argue it out.
Plugbert's verdict
Confident, slightly eccentric, very French. Your Europlug adapter works fine.
Where you'll find Type E (43)
馃嚙馃嚜 Belgium馃嚙馃嚡 Benin馃嚙馃嚝 Burkina Faso馃嚙馃嚠 Burundi馃嚚馃嚥 Cameroon馃嚚馃嚝 Central African Republic馃嚬馃嚛 Chad馃嚢馃嚥 Comoros馃嚚馃嚛 Congo (DR)馃嚚馃嚞 Congo (Republic)馃嚚馃嚠 C么te d'Ivoire馃嚚馃嚳 Czechia馃嚛馃嚢 Denmark馃嚛馃嚡 Djibouti馃嚞馃嚩 Equatorial Guinea馃嚜馃嚬 Ethiopia馃嚝馃嚧 Faroe Islands馃嚝馃嚪 France馃嚞馃嚝 French Guiana馃嚨馃嚝 French Polynesia馃嚞馃嚤 Greenland馃嚞馃嚨 Guadeloupe馃嚤馃嚘 Laos馃嚤馃嚪 Liberia馃嚥馃嚞 Madagascar馃嚥馃嚤 Mali馃嚥馃嚩 Martinique馃嚲馃嚬 Mayotte馃嚥馃嚚 Monaco馃嚥馃嚦 Mongolia馃嚥馃嚘 Morocco馃嚦馃嚜 Niger馃嚨馃嚤 Poland馃嚪馃嚜 R茅union馃嚙馃嚤 Saint Barth茅lemy馃嚥馃嚝 Saint Martin馃嚮馃嚚 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines馃嚫馃嚦 Senegal馃嚫馃嚢 Slovakia馃嚫馃嚲 Syria馃嚬馃嚤 Timor-Leste馃嚬馃嚦 Tunisia馃嚰馃嚝 Wallis and Futuna