Papua New Guinea license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Papua New Guinea.

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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 Papua New Guinea plate has three letters and three digits separated by a diamond (BAA·000), with PNG at the top. The first letter of the series shows the province of registration: B is the National Capital District (Port Moresby), L Morobe, M Madang and so on; Jiwaka uses the three-letter prefix JWK. The letters P and Z are reserved for provincial and national government vehicles, and Q is not issued.

Region map

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Region codes

22 regions

Region	Code
National Capital District	B
Central Province	C
Western Province	D
Eastern Highlands	E
Milne Bay	F
Gulf Province	G
Western Highlands	H
Chimbu (Simbu)	I
Manus	J
Jiwaka	JWK
West New Britain	K
Morobe	L
Madang	M
New Ireland	N
Oro (Northern Province)	O
East New Britain	R
Southern Highlands	S
Hela	T
Autonomous Region of Bougainville	U
Sandaun (West Sepik)	V
East Sepik	W
National series (before 1993)Nationwide series issued until about 1993. The letter A does not indicate a province.	A

History

From independence in 1975 until about 1993 a nationwide AAA-000 series without regions was issued. Earlier plates carried TP or TNG (1920–1949), then TP&NG (1951–1973), and in 1973 plates of the PNG83-000 type appeared.