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Iraq license plates — 14 G 34567

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Country code
IRQ is the international code of the country of registration.
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:

The new Iraqi plate reads left to right: the letters IRQ on the left strip (plus a small KR in Iraqi Kurdistan), then the two-digit governorate code, a Latin series letter and up to five digits: 14 G 34567 is Basra. Governorate codes run from 11 to 29: 11 is Baghdad, 14 Basra, and 21–24 Sulaymaniyah, Erbil, Halabja and Duhok.

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Region codes

19 regions

History

Governorate codes were introduced in Iraqi Kurdistan in April 2022 and in the rest of Iraq in June 2024. From 1988 to 2024 the plate carried the governorate name as an Arabic word instead of a code (the 1988 and 2008 patterns), while Kurdistan had plates of its own.

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$0.30 /L

IQD450.00 · €0.26/L

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$0.56 /L

IQD850.05 · €0.50/L

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RON 95

$0.82 /L

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Diesel

$0.26 /L

IQD400.05 · €0.24/L

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cheaper than 99% of countries

Kerosene

$0.10 /L

IQD150.00 · €0.09/L

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cheaper than 100% of countries

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