Eritrea license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Eritrea.

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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.

How to read the plate

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:

An Eritrean plate has two lines, black on white inside a black border. The top line holds the letters ER, a dash and a circled digit; the bottom line holds five digits (ER – ③ 01860). The meaning of the circled digit is not firmly established: some sources call it a district code, but by analogy with the Ethiopian system it is more likely a vehicle category. So the region cannot be read from the plate.

Region codes

Plates in this country do not show the region — you cannot tell it from the plate.

History

The current plates appeared after independence in 1993; the exact date is unknown. From 1952 to 1993 Eritrea used the Ethiopian system, and in the Italian colony (1913–1941) plates read ERITREA, later ER.