Tanzania license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Tanzania.

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Plate types

How to read the plate

Country code

EAT is the international code of the country of registration.

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 Tanzanian private plate has black characters on yellow: the letter T, three digits and three series letters (T 995 AGT), with the flag and a round hologram on the left. The first letter shows the part of the union: T for mainland Tanzania, Z for Zanzibar (Z 101 AA, a separate design with the Zanzibar flag and the letters EAZ). On the mainland the region is not visible — series are national.

Region map

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Region codes

32 regions

Region	Code
Mainland Tanzania (Tanganyika)	T
ZanzibarCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	Z ZNZ
ArushaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	AR
BukobaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	BK
BagamoyoCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	BO
ChunyaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	CH
DodomaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	DO
Dar es SalaamCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	DS TD
IringaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	IR
KilosaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	KA
KigomaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	KG
KilwaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	KL
LindiCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	LD
MbeyaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	MB
MafiaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	MF
MorogoroCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	MG
MoshiCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	MS
MtwaraCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	MT
MusomaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	MU
MwanzaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	MZ
PembaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	PBA
PanganiCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	PG
RungweCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	RG
RufijiCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	RI
SongeaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	SG
ShinyangaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	SH
SingidaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	SI
TangaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	TA
TaboraCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	TB
UfipaCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	UF
UjijiCode from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	UJ
Usambara (Lushoto)Code from an earlier numbering system. No longer issued.	US

History

From 1933 a number consisted of town letters and four digits (DS for Dar es Salaam), in the 1980s of T, two letters and four digits, and in the 1990s of three letters and three digits. Zanzibar formerly had ZNZ 1234 plates and Pemba PBA 1234. The list of town codes (AR, DS, MZ and others) is known only from an amateur reference.