Bih license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Bih.

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Plate types

How to read the plate

Country code

BIH 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 plate from Bosnia and Herzegovina shows neither town, canton nor entity: a letter, two digits, a letter and three digits separated by dashes (M48-E-415). Only seven letters that look the same in Latin and Cyrillic are used — A, E, J, K, M, O, T — so the plate reads the same in both parts of the country. On the left is a blue field with BIH, without the EU stars.

Region codes

22 regions

Region	Code
BihaćYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	BI
Banja LukaYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	BL
BijeljinaYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	BN
BugojnoYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	BU
BrčkoYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	BČ
DobojYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	DO
GoraždeYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	GŽ
JajceYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	JC
KonjicYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	KNJ
LivnoYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	LI
ModričaYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	MD
MostarYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	MO
PrijedorYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	PD
SarajevoYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	SA
TrebinjeYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	TB
Drvar (Titov Drvar)Yugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	TD
TravnikYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	TR
TuzlaYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	TZ
VisokoYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	VI
ZenicaYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	ZE
ZvornikYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	ZV
ČapljinaYugoslav town code (before 1992). Such plates have been invalid since 1998.	ČP

History

Nationwide plates without a region were introduced on 2 February 1998 by decision of the High Representative: the old plates showed which part of the country a car came from, and this was used to harass drivers. In 1992–1998 plates of the Republic of BiH, Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia with their own town codes were used side by side, and before 1992 Yugoslav plates with a town code (SA for Sarajevo, BL for Banja Luka, MO for Mostar). From 1998 to 2009 the format was 123-A-456; the current design dates from 28 September 2009.