DR Congo license plates

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Country code

CGO is the international code of the country of registration.

Region code

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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 DR Congo plate reads as four digits and two letters, followed on the right, after a vertical bar, by the two-digit province code (8762AA | 19, where 19 is North Kivu). Code 01 stands for Kinshasa; the other 25 provinces are numbered alphabetically. On the left are the flag and the letters CGO.

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Region codes

31 regions

Region	Code
KinshasaTwo-letter province code at the start of the number (1979–2009). No longer issued.	01 KN
Bas-Uele	02
ÉquateurTwo-letter province code at the start of the number (1979–2009). No longer issued.	03 EQ
Haut-Lomami	04
Haut-Katanga	05
Haut-Uele	06
Ituri	07
Kasai	08
Kasai-OrientalTwo-letter province code at the start of the number (1979–2009). No longer issued.	09 KE
Kongo CentralTwo-letter province code at the start of the number (1979–2009). No longer issued.	10 BC BZ
Kwango	11
Kwilu	12
Lomami	13
Lualaba	14
Kasai-Central	15
Mai-Ndombe	16
ManiemaTwo-letter province code at the start of the number (1979–2009). No longer issued.	17 MN
Mongala	18
North KivuTwo-letter province code at the start of the number (1979–2009). No longer issued.	19 NK
North Ubangi	20
Sankuru	21
South KivuTwo-letter province code at the start of the number (1979–2009). No longer issued.	22 SK
South Ubangi	23
Tanganyika	24
Tshopo	25
Tshuapa	26
Bandundu (abolished 2015)The province was abolished and split up; its 1979–2009 code survives only on old plates.	BN
Katanga / Shaba (abolished 2015)The province was abolished and split up; its 1979–2009 code survives only on old plates.	KT SH
Kivu (split in 1988)The province was abolished and split up; its 1979–2009 code survives only on old plates.	KV
Kasai-Occidental (abolished 2015)The province was abolished and split up; its 1979–2009 code survives only on old plates.	KW
Orientale / Haut-Zaïre (abolished 2015)The province was abolished and split up; its 1979–2009 code survives only on old plates.	OR HZ

History

The current plates have been issued since 2009, and the codes of the 26 provinces appeared after the 2015 reform split the former 11 provinces. Before 1979 the plate bore a yellow star, one or two letters and up to four digits. From 1979 to 2009 the number began with a two-letter province code: KN for Kinshasa, BC (earlier BZ) for Bas-Congo, KT (earlier SH) for Katanga and so on.