Vehicle plate patterns
Important things!
- All Austrian and German Vehicle plates must have a dash (-) symbol instead of a coat of arms ∇
- Only capital letters A-Z and numbers 0-9 are used in the Vehicle plate
- Additional letters of the Latin alphabet like
Č,Ć,Đ,Ž,Š,Ä,Ö,Ü, may be used depending on the country - Some letters and numbers may not be used in some countries
🇦🇹 Austria
The alphanumeric format for registration plates is "XX ∇ number+letter(s)" or "XX ∇ personalised letters+number";
XX - one or two letters which indicate the local registration office (district where the registered possessor resides). As a general rule, State capitals have one letter; other districts have two letters. ∇ - the coat of arms of the Austrian state the district belongs to have a dash (–) instead A three to six-letter/number sequence which uniquely distinguishes each of the vehicles displaying the same initial area code.
- The letter
Qis excluded from all sequences.
Examples:
P-DXN1
S-626VY
W-TKT1
W-76067I
ME-639A
KU-217BI
ZE-248KJ
🇩🇪 Germany
Examples:
M-AE2821
R-WI282
MY-RS9999
FS-LL777
OF-PS309E
FFB-AM483
TÖL-BA218
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- The letters
G,CH,O,QandWmay not be used
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇭🇷 Croatia
- The letters
Q,W,XandYmay not be used - Vehicle plate can contain letters like
Č,Ž,Š
🇸🇰 Slovakia
🇵🇱 Poland
- The letters used in licence plates include all standard Latin alphabet letters outside of
Q(not used at all in the Polish language). - The letters
B,D,I,O, andZcannot be used in series area (on the right, after the gap), because they could be confused with similarly-looking digits. - Custom plates are allowed to include these letters though. The leading 0 in numbers is part of the code and is never omitted.
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Ukraine
🇷🇴 Romania
- The letter
Qis not used as it may be confused with the letterO
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
- Only 12 letters are used on the left side (i.e. province codes) these are:
A,B,E,K,M,H,O,P,C,T,Y,X. - Only 10 letters are used on the righ side (i.e. series codes) these are:
A,B,E,K,M,H,P,C,T,X.