Sierra Leone license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Sierra Leone.

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Custom text: real plates never carry this combination.

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How to read the plate

Country code

WAL is the international code of the country of registration.

Region code

In a separate field of the plate.

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 Sierra Leone plate of the current series has three letters and three digits (AIB 960). On the left are the flag and SIERRA LEONE in small type; on the right a vertical band shows the category: PRV for private, COM for commercial (in red), GRP for government. According to the German Wikipedia a two-letter place-of-registration code stands above the category, but no list of codes for the current series has been found. Government plates have their own longer format: AA 277 R25 08.

Region codes

14 regions

Region	Code
Kenema DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	EK
Kailahun DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	EL
Kono DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	EM
Bombali DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	NB
Koinadugu DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	ND
Kambia DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	NK
Port Loko DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	NP
Tonkolili DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	NT
Bo DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	SB
Moyamba DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	SM
Bonthe DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	SN
Pujehun DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	SP
Western Area Rural DistrictDistrict code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	WR
Western Area Urban District (Freetown)District code on old plates (from a hobbyist source). Whether it matches the place-of-registration code on current plates is unconfirmed.	WU

History

The current system is based on the Road Traffic Act 2007; the design with the coat of arms and a QR code appeared in 2020. Earlier plates began with two letters, the first for the province and the second for the district (EK for Kenema, SB for Bo, WU for Freetown). These codes are known only from a hobbyist source; the Falaba and Karene districts created in 2017 have no codes.