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Samoa license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Samoa.

Samoa license plates — 5511

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How to read the plate

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 Samoan plate has one to five digits, with SAMOA at the top and the motto Penina ole Pasefika at the bottom. The series is nationwide and shows no region.

Region codes

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

History

The current system dates from 2000. In the 1950s plates had three digits; from 1979 they looked like 1•234 and read Western Samoa.

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Unleaded 91

$1.45 /L

WST4.04 · €1.30/L

77 of 175

cheaper than 57% of countries

Diesel

$1.74 /L

WST4.85 · €1.56/L

97 of 174

pricier than 55% of countries

Kerosene

$1.54 /L

WST4.29 · €1.38/L

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pricier than 59% of countries

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