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Latvia license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Latvia.

Latvia license plates — HN-5867

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Plate types

How to read the plate

EU band
The blue band with the EU flag and the country code LV.
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:

A Latvian plate has two letters, a dash and one to four digits (HN-5867, HM-742). There is no region in the number: plates are issued centrally by CSDD. On the left is the blue EU band with LV.

Region codes

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

History

The current system has been in use since 1992. Soviet plates of the Latvian SSR are rarely seen today.

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Super E10

$2.07 /L

€1.86 · £1.55/L

145 of 175

pricier than 82% of countries

Super Plus 98

$2.15 /L

€1.93 · £1.61/L

76 of 103

pricier than 73% of countries

Dīzeļdegviela

$2.32 /L

€2.08 · £1.74/L

145 of 174

pricier than 83% of countries

Premium Diesel

$2.45 /L

€2.19 · £1.84/L

34 of 46

pricier than 72% of countries

LPG

$1.14 /L

€1.02 · £0.85/L

42 of 56

pricier than 73% of countries

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