Iran license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Iran.

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Plate types

How to read the plate

Country code

IR is the international code of the country of registration.

Region code

Digits at the end 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:

On the left of an Iranian plate is a blue strip with the flag and I.R. IRAN, followed by two digits, a Persian letter and three digits — all characters are Persian (۱۲ ب ۳۴۵). A separate box on the right holds the two-digit code of the province (ostan) under the word ایران, for example ۱۱ for Tehran. Each ostan has between one and fifteen codes, and on private cars the series letter within a code points to the shahrestan (county).

Region map

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Region codes

31 regions

Region	Code
Tehran	10 11 20 22 33 40 44 50 55 60 66 77 88 99
Razavi Khorasan	12 32 36 42 74
Isfahan	13 23 43 53 67
Khuzestan	14 24 34
East Azerbaijan	15 25 35
Qom	16
West Azerbaijan	17 27 37
Hamadan	18 28
Kermanshah	19 29
Tehran Province and Alborz	21 30 38 68 78
North Khorasan	26
Lorestan	31 41
Kerman	45 65 75
Gilan	46 56 76
Markazi	47 57
Bushehr	48 58
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad	49
Kurdistan	51 61
South Khorasan	52
Yazd	54 64
Golestan	59 69
Mazandaran	62 72 82 92
Fars	63 73 83 93
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari	71 81
Qazvin	79 89
Hormozgan	84 94
Sistan and Baluchestan	85 95
Semnan	86 96
Zanjan	87 97
Ardabil	91
Ilam	98

History

Today's plates appeared in 2003–2005, with the European 520×110 mm size since 2005. Before that the plate spelled out the city or ostan (e.g. تهران) followed by five or six digits. The free trade zones (Kish, Qeshm, Chabahar, Aras, Anzali, Arvand, Maku) issue their own US-size plates with the zone logo.