Vehicle registration plates of Belarus

The current Belarusian license plates issued since May 2004. Most flags are designed with black text on a white background. On the left side there is the Belarusian national flag, including the distinguishing sign of BY. As a font variant of the German DIN font will be used.

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Current Features

Number plates for private vehicles consist of four digits and two letters; then follows, separated by a hyphen, the regional allocation in the form of another digit. Commercial vehicles and trailers a modified structure is used, the area number represents but always at the end. So for trailer license plate slips for example, one of the two letters at the beginning before the four digits. Number plates for motorcycles are two lines. In the upper line the four digits, down flag and country codes, two letters and the region number appear.

With the exception of the hallmarks of the police and military as well as diplomatic license plates only those letters are used, the glyphs in both Belarusian and in the Latin alphabet occur (A, B, E, I, K, M, H, O, P, C, T, and X) used on the signs.

Variants

For some vehicle groups distinguishing marks will be issued, which differ primarily by a different background color from ordinary number plates.

Mark 1992-2004

The first Belarusian license plates were issued in 1992 and had red lettering and a red border. They consisted of four digits and two letters, one of which encoded the first the area. In 2000, a third letter was added and slightly changed the coding of the areas. Were used as well as today only letters which occur in both alphabets. Between number and letter group was between 1992-1995, the then National coat of arms. 1996, it was replaced by a printed seal with the inscription BELARUS.

Variants

Mark before 1992

By 1991, Belarus was a Belarusian SSR of the Soviet Union and did not conduct its own mark. The registration districts in the Soviet system were largely identical to those of today. The only exception is the Woblasz Molodetschno ( abbreviation МЛ ), which was dissolved in 1960.

See also: License Plate ( Soviet Union)

Regional coding

474050
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