Brazil license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Brazil.

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Plate types

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MERCOSUR band

The common Mercosur format: a blue band with the name and flag of the country.

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 Brazilian Mercosul plate is written without spaces: three letters, a digit, a letter and two digits (BRA2E19); a blue band on top carries BRASIL and the flag, with a QR code and the letters BR on the left. Neither state nor city is shown, but the first three letters come from ranges allocated to each state, so they reveal the state of first registration — the combination stays with the car for life, even after a move. The original state ranges: AAA–BEZ Paraná, BFA–GKI São Paulo, GKJ–HOK Minas Gerais, HOL–HQE Maranhão, HQF–HTW Mato Grosso do Sul, HTX–HZA Ceará, HZB–IAP Sergipe, IAQ–JDO Rio Grande do Sul, JDP–JKR Federal District, JKS–JSZ Bahia, JTA–JWE Pará, JWF–JXY Amazonas, JXZ–KAU Mato Grosso, KAV–KFC Goiás, KFD–KME Pernambuco, KMF–LVE Rio de Janeiro, LVF–LWQ Piauí, LWR–MMM Santa Catarina, MMN–MOW Paraíba, MOX–MTZ Espírito Santo, MUA–MVK Alagoas, MVL–MXG Tocantins, MXH–MZM Rio Grande do Norte, MZN–NAG Acre, NAH–NBA Roraima, NBB–NEH Rondônia, NEI–NFB Amapá. Series starting with N, O, P, Q, R, S, T and U are handed out to states in small blocks as needed (RIO, for instance, went to Rio de Janeiro), so they need the full list.

Region map

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Region codes

27 regions

Region	Code
Acre	AC
Alagoas	AL
Amazonas	AM
Amapá	AP
Bahia	BA
Ceará	CE
Federal District	DF
Espírito Santo	ES
Goiás	GO
Maranhão	MA
Minas Gerais	MG
Mato Grosso do Sul	MS
Mato Grosso	MT
Pará	PA
Paraíba	PB
Pernambuco	PE
Piauí	PI
Paraná	PR
Rio de Janeiro	RJ
Rio Grande do Norte	RN
Rondônia	RO
Roraima	RR
Rio Grande do Sul	RS
Santa Catarina	SC
Sergipe	SE
São Paulo	SP
Tocantins	TO

History

Mercosul plates have been issued since 11 September 2018 (Rio de Janeiro state came first), and every state had switched by February 2020; when an old plate is replaced, its second digit becomes a letter (0 → A … 9 → J). In 1990–2018 plates read ABC·1234 with a “CITY - UF” tab on top that changed when the owner moved; in 1969–1990 they read AB·1234 with city and state. Earlier, in 1941–1969, states issued numeric plates with the municipality name, and in 1901–1941 plates were municipal.