Benin license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Benin.

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Custom text: real plates never carry this combination.

This image is not a license plate: it must not be fitted to a vehicle and does not mean the combination is available.

How to read the plate

Country code

DY is the international code of the country of registration.

No region code

You cannot tell the region from this country's plates.

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 Beninese plate is a national series of one or two Latin letters and four digits (AE 8888). On the right is a map of Benin in the flag colours with the letters RB, next to the inspection sticker. It shows no region. The background colour marks the category: white for private cars, orange for commercial vehicles and taxis, blue for government ones.

Region codes

Plates in this country do not show the region — you cannot tell it from the plate.

History

In the Dahomey era plates carried the letters DY, later RPB (People's Republic of Benin); according to the available sources there were no region codes then either. The current series has been issued since the early 1990s, and decree 2013-349 reformed registration.