Croatia license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Croatia.

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Plate types

How to read the plate

EU band

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

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 Croatian plate starts with two letters for the town at the centre of the registration area: ZG for Zagreb, ST for Split, RI for Rijeka, OS for Osijek; there are 34 codes, some with diacritics (ČK, KŽ, PŽ, ŠI, VŽ, ŽU). Next come the chequered Croatian coat of arms, 3–4 digits, a dash and 1–2 letters (ZD 608-EC is Zadar). The areas do not match the counties: one county can have several codes. Thin red and blue lines run along the top and bottom edges.

Region map

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Region codes

34 regions

Region	Code
Bjelovar	BJ
Beli Manastir	BM
Daruvar	DA
Delnice	DE
Đakovo	DJ
Dubrovnik	DU
Gospić	GS
Imotski	IM
Karlovac	KA
Koprivnica	KC
Krapina	KR
Kutina	KT
Križevci	KŽ
Makarska	MA
Našice	NA
Nova Gradiška	NG
Ogulin	OG
Osijek	OS
Pula	PU
PožegaOld town code replaced after the town was renamed (Podravska Slatina → Slatina, Slavonska Požega → Požega); no longer issued.	PŽ SP
Rijeka	RI
Slavonski Brod	SB
Sisak	SK
SlatinaOld town code replaced after the town was renamed (Podravska Slatina → Slatina, Slavonska Požega → Požega); no longer issued.	SL PS
Split	ST
Vinkovci	VK
Virovitica	VT
Vukovar	VU
Varaždin	VŽ
Zadar	ZD
Zagreb	ZG
Čakovec	ČK
Šibenik	ŠI
Županja	ŽU

History

The current system dates from 1992; the blue EU band was added on 4 July 2016. Until 1991 Yugoslav plates were used, with codes of the same towns and a red star. The codes PS (Podravska Slatina) and SP (Slavonska Požega) are no longer issued: after the towns were renamed they were replaced by SL and PŽ. A 2015 plan to give each of the 128 towns its own code was cancelled in 2016.