Malaysia license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Malaysia.

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Plate types

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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 Malaysian plate has white characters on black: letters and 1–4 digits (PFQ 5217). The first letter is the state or federal territory: A for Perak, B for Selangor, J for Johor, P for Penang, V for Kuala Lumpur, F for Putrajaya; the other letters are the series, and when series run out a letter is added at the end. In Sarawak Q is followed by a division letter (QA Kuching, QM Miri), in Sabah S by an office letter (SJ Kota Kinabalu, SW Tawau); Langkawi island has its own code KV. Taxis get the prefix H, the military Z.

Region map

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Region codes

16 regions

Region	Code
Perak	A
Selangor	B
Pahang	C
Kelantan	D
Putrajaya	F
Johor	J
Kedah	K KV
LabuanThe series ran out and was replaced by a new code; such plates are no longer issued, but old ones are still on the road.	L SL
Malacca	M
Negeri Sembilan	N
Penang	P
SarawakThe series ran out and was replaced by a new code; such plates are no longer issued, but old ones are still on the road.	QA QB QC QD QS QE QL QM QP QR QK QT
Perlis	R
SabahThe series ran out and was replaced by a new code; such plates are no longer issued, but old ones are still on the road.	SJ SB SK SU SM SW SD SP SA SY SS ST
Terengganu	T
Kuala LumpurThe series ran out and was replaced by a new code; such plates are no longer issued, but old ones are still on the road.	V W

History

State letters on the peninsula have been used since 1948; before that the Straits Settlements had S (Singapore), P (Penang) and M (Malacca). Sarawak switched to the Q prefix in 1991 and Sabah to S in the 1980s. In 2016 Kuala Lumpur replaced the exhausted W with V, and Putrajaya got F at the same time.