Bhutan license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Bhutan.

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How to read the plate

Region code

Part of the number that shows the region.

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 Bhutanese private car plate is red with white characters. The top line reads «སྒེར་འཁོར» (“private vehicle”) in Dzongkha, the bottom one carries a number such as BP-2-A7662: BP for a private vehicle (BT taxi, BG government), then the region digit, a series letter and four digits. There are four region digits: 1 west, 2 centre, 3 south, 4 east of the country.

Region map

Click a region to see its codes.

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Region codes

4 regions

Region	Code
Western Bhutan	1
Central Bhutan	2
Southern Bhutan	3
Eastern Bhutan	4

History

Earlier plates looked like BP-2-1234, without a series letter; the sources do not say when the letter was added. How the region digits map onto the dzongkhags has not been officially published.