Bulgaria license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Bulgaria.

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Plate types

How to read the plate

EU band

The blue band with the EU flag and the country code BG.

Region code

Letters at the start of the number.

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 Bulgarian plate is a one- or two-letter province code, four digits and two series letters (СА 1234 АВ). Only the 12 Cyrillic letters that look like Latin ones are used: А В Е К М Н О Р С Т У Х. The province code is on the left: СА is Sofia, В is Varna, РВ is Plovdiv; Sofia city has three codes — С, СА and СВ. To the left of the number is the blue EU band with the letters BG.

Region map

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Region codes

28 regions

Region	Code
Burgas Province	A
Varna Province	B
Vidin Province	BH
Vratsa Province	BP
Veliko Tarnovo Province	BT
Sofia City	C CA CB
Silistra Province	CC
Sliven Province	CH
Smolyan Province	CM
Sofia Province	CO
Stara Zagora Province	CT
Blagoevgrad Province	E
Gabrovo Province	EB
Pleven Province	EH
Shumen Province	H
Kardzhali Province	K
Kyustendil Province	KH
Montana Province	M
Lovech Province	OB
Ruse Province	P
Pazardzhik Province	PA
Plovdiv Province	PB
Pernik Province	PK
Razgrad Province	PP
Targovishte Province	T
Dobrich Province	TX
Haskovo Province	X
Yambol Province	Y

History

The current province codes date from 1992, the EU format with the blue band from 1999/2008. In 1986–1992 codes followed the former okrugs (П for Plovdiv, ПК for Pernik, СЗ for Stara Zagora), and earlier formats were different again; old codes are practically never seen now. Sofia got extra codes as series ran out: СА from about 2005, СВ from November 2014.