Turkey license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Turkey.

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Plate types

How to read the plate

Country code

TR is the international code of the country of registration.

Region code

Digits 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 Turkish plate starts with a two-digit province (il) code from 01 to 81, followed by 1–3 letters and 2–5 digits (34 ABC 123). Codes 01–67 follow the alphabetical order of province names in the 1960s (01 Adana, 67 Zonguldak); provinces created later got 68–81. The letter group has a meaning too: in districts (ilçe) it points to the tax office, while in the provincial centre letters simply follow the order of issue. On the left is a blue band with the letters TR.

Region map

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Region codes

81 regions

Region	Code
Adana Province	01
Adıyaman Province	02
Afyonkarahisar Province	03
Ağrı Province	04
Amasya Province	05
Ankara Province	06
Antalya Province	07
Artvin Province	08
Aydın Province	09
Balıkesir Province	10
Bilecik Province	11
Bingöl Province	12
Bitlis Province	13
Bolu Province	14
Burdur Province	15
Bursa Province	16
Çanakkale Province	17
Çankırı Province	18
Çorum Province	19
Denizli Province	20
Diyarbakır Province	21
Edirne Province	22
Elazığ Province	23
Erzincan Province	24
Erzurum Province	25
Eskişehir Province	26
Gaziantep Province	27
Giresun Province	28
Gümüşhane Province	29
Hakkâri Province	30
Hatay Province	31
Isparta Province	32
Mersin Province	33
Istanbul Province	34
Izmir Province	35
Kars Province	36
Kastamonu Province	37
Kayseri Province	38
Kırklareli Province	39
Kırşehir Province	40
Kocaeli Province	41
Konya Province	42
Kütahya Province	43
Malatya Province	44
Manisa Province	45
Kahramanmaraş Province	46
Mardin Province	47
Muğla Province	48
Muş Province	49
Nevşehir Province	50
Niğde Province	51
Ordu Province	52
Rize Province	53
Sakarya Province	54
Samsun Province	55
Siirt Province	56
Sinop Province	57
Sivas Province	58
Tekirdağ Province	59
Tokat Province	60
Trabzon Province	61
Tunceli Province	62
Şanlıurfa Province	63
Uşak Province	64
Van Province	65
Yozgat Province	66
Zonguldak Province	67
Aksaray Province	68
Bayburt Province	69
Karaman Province	70
Kırıkkale Province	71
Batman Province	72
Şırnak Province	73
Bartın Province	74
Ardahan Province	75
Iğdır Province	76
Yalova Province	77
Karabük Province	78
Kilis Province	79
Osmaniye Province	80
Düzce Province	81

History

Numeric province codes were introduced in 1962; before that plates had no province code. Codes 01–67 have not changed since, only new ones were added: 68–71 in 1989, 72–73 in 1990, 74–79 in 1991–1995, 80 in 1996 and 81 (Düzce) in 1999. Some provinces were renamed but kept their code: 46 Maraş became Kahramanmaraş (1973), 63 Urfa became Şanlıurfa (1984), 33 İçel became Mersin (2002). The current look with the blue band dates from 2004/2016.