Ghana license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Ghana.

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Plate types

How to read the plate

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 Ghanaian plate reads as a two-letter region code, then four digits and, after a dash, the last two digits of the registration year — GR 1899-18. On the rear plate the code sits on the top line next to the flag and the letters GH; the front plate has everything on one line. The code is usually the region's first letter plus R (GR for Greater Accra, CR for Central), but busy regions have extra series: GE, GT, GW for Greater Accra, AK, AS, AW for Ashanti. From 2026 the DVLA is moving to a new scheme with the code of the district registration centre at the end and a letter series instead of the year (GR 222 AD, AD for Adenta).

Region map

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Region codes

11 regions

Region	Code
Ashanti RegionSeries code used before 2009 (plates with a year letter). No longer issued, but old plates are still on the road.	AC AE AK AP AS AW AH AN AR ARA ARB ARC ARD ASA AT GK
Bono Region	BA BR BW
Bono East Region	BT
Central RegionSeries code used before 2009 (plates with a year letter). No longer issued, but old plates are still on the road.	CR CP CRA
Eastern RegionSeries code used before 2009 (plates with a year letter). No longer issued, but old plates are still on the road.	EN ER ES EP ERA EW
Greater Accra RegionSeries code used before 2009 (plates with a year letter). No longer issued, but old plates are still on the road.	GR GB GC GE GG GH GL GM GN GT GS GW GX GY AA AB ACA ACB ACC ACD ACE AD AF AFA AFB AFC AFD AG AM ATA GF GO GZA TRA TRB
Northern RegionSeries code used before 2009 (plates with a year letter). No longer issued, but old plates are still on the road.	NR NG NP NRA NT
Upper East RegionSeries code used before 2009 (plates with a year letter). No longer issued, but old plates are still on the road.	UE URA
Upper West RegionSeries code used before 2009 (plates with a year letter). No longer issued, but old plates are still on the road.	UW UR UWR
Volta RegionSeries code used before 2009 (plates with a year letter). No longer issued, but old plates are still on the road.	VA VD VR TV
Western RegionSeries code used before 2009 (plates with a year letter). No longer issued, but old plates are still on the road.	WR WT GJ WE WP WRA

History

The current scheme with the registration year has been in use since January 2009. Before that plates carried two- and three-letter region codes (AA, ACA, ARA, WRA, UWR), up to four digits and a year letter — such plates are still seen. From 1 January 2026 the DVLA announced a new scheme with the code of the district registration centre, but no full list of these codes is available yet.