Belarus license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Belarus.

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Plate types

How to read the plate

Country code

BY is the international code of the country of registration.

Region code

In a separate field of the plate.

Series and number

Letters and digits — the registration itself.

County

The first characters are the code of the county where the car is registered: The county where the car is registered is shown separately on the plate:

A Belarusian plate reads left to right: the flag and BY, four digits, two series letters and, after a hyphen, the region digit — for example 8682 АХ-3. Digits 1–6 are the regions in alphabetical order (1 is Brest, 3 is Gomel), 7 and 8 are Minsk. Only Cyrillic letters that look like Latin ones are used: А, В, Е, І, К, М, Н, О, Р, С, Т, Х.

Region map

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Region codes

7 regions

Region	Code
Brest RegionSeries letter on pre-2004 plates that showed the region. No longer issued; old plates remain valid.	1 A IA IB IC IE IH II
Vitebsk RegionSeries letter on pre-2004 plates that showed the region. No longer issued; old plates remain valid.	2 B IK IM IO IT IX
Gomel RegionSeries letter on pre-2004 plates that showed the region. No longer issued; old plates remain valid.	3 E H
Grodno RegionSeries letter on pre-2004 plates that showed the region. No longer issued; old plates remain valid.	4 C XA XB XC XE XH XI
Minsk RegionSeries letter on pre-2004 plates that showed the region. No longer issued; old plates remain valid.	5 O P
Mogilev RegionSeries letter on pre-2004 plates that showed the region. No longer issued; old plates remain valid.	6 T XM XO XP XT XX
Minsk (city)Series letter on pre-2004 plates that showed the region. No longer issued; old plates remain valid.	7 8 M K HK IP PI PH XK

History

The current pattern dates from 2004 under STB 914-99. Before that the region was the first series letter: on the 2000–2004 plates (1234 АВС) and the 1992–2000 plates (1234 АВ) — M and K, for example, meant Minsk. The old plates remain valid. Code 8 was first used on transit plates and is now Minsk's second code.