Romania license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Romania.

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Plate types

How to read the plate

EU band

The blue band with the EU flag and the country code RO.

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 Romanian plate is a one- or two-letter county code, two digits and three letters (CJ 12 ABC). County codes match ISO 3166-2:RO: CJ is Cluj, TM is Timiș, GL is Galați. Bucharest has the single-letter code B and may have three digits (B 123 ABC). The last group never contains Q and never starts with I or O. On the left is the blue EU band with the letters RO.

Region map

Click a region to see its codes.

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Region codes

42 regions

Region	Code
Alba County	AB
Argeș County	AG
Arad County	AR
Bucharest	B
Bacău County	BC
Bihor County	BH
Bistrița-Năsăud County	BN
Brăila County	BR
Botoșani County	BT
Brașov County	BV
Buzău County	BZ
Cluj County	CJ
Călărași County	CL
Caraș-Severin County	CS
Constanța County	CT
Covasna County	CV
Dâmbovița County	DB
Dolj County	DJ
Gorj County	GJ
Galați County	GL
Giurgiu County	GR
Hunedoara County	HD
Harghita County	HR
Ilfov County	IF
Ialomița County	IL
Iași County	IS
Mehedinți County	MH
Maramureș County	MM
Mureș County	MS
Neamț County	NT
Olt County	OT
Prahova County	PH
Sibiu County	SB
Sălaj County	SJ
Satu Mare County	SM
Suceava County	SV
Tulcea County	TL
Timiș County	TM
Teleorman County	TR
Vâlcea County	VL
Vrancea County	VN
Vaslui County	VS

History

The current format dates from 1992, the EU format from 2007, and the typeface was updated in 2024. In 1966–1992 a plate looked like 1-B-12345: the first number gave the vehicle type and the letters the county (from 1968 almost the same codes as today). From the 1980s Ilfov was registered as 9-B-…, and its own code IF returned in 2005.