Cape Verde license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Cape Verde.

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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.

Plate types

How to read the plate

Country code

CV is the international code of the country of registration.

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 Cape Verdean plate starts with two letters for the island of first registration: ST for Santiago, SV for São Vicente, SL for Sal, BV for Boa Vista and so on. Then come two digits and two letters or digits, with dots between the groups: ST-65-BC. Private plates have white characters on black with the flag on the left. The example shown is an army plate: FA stands for the Armed Forces, not an island.

Region map

Click a region to see its codes.

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Region codes

11 regions

Region	Code
Brava	BR
Boa Vista	BV
Fogo	FG
Maio	MA
Santo Antão	SA
Sal	SL
São Nicolau	SN
Santiago	ST
São Vicente	SV
Barlavento IslandsIsland-group code from the old Portuguese scheme CVx-1234. No longer issued.	CVB
Sotavento IslandsIsland-group code from the old Portuguese scheme CVx-1234. No longer issued.	CVS

History

In colonial times plates followed the Portuguese scheme CVx-1234: CVB for the Barlavento (Windward) Islands and CVS for the Sotavento (Leeward) Islands. It was later replaced by codes for individual islands; the sources do not give the exact date. The code MA for Maio appears in only one hobbyist source, with a question mark.