Uruguay license plates

Format, region codes and a plate generator for Uruguay.

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Plate types

How to read the plate

MERCOSUR band

The common Mercosur format: a blue band with the name and flag of the country.

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 Uruguayan MERCOSUR plate has three letters and four digits: STP 3480, with a blue band on top carrying URUGUAY and the flag. The first letter is the department of registration: S for Montevideo, A for Canelones, B for Maldonado and so on alphabetically up to S. In many departments the second, sometimes also the third, letter marks the municipality or town. The department name is not written on the plate; special series (ME, DI, OF, TX and others) put those letters right after the department letter.

Region map

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Region codes

19 regions

Region	Code
Canelones Department	A
Maldonado Department	B
Rocha Department	C
Treinta y Tres Department	D
Cerro Largo Department	E
Rivera Department	F
Artigas Department	G
Salto Department	H
Paysandú Department	I
Río Negro Department	J
Soriano Department	K
Colonia Department	L
San José Department	M
Flores Department	N
Florida Department	O
Lavalleja Department	P
Durazno Department	Q
Tacuarembó Department	R
Montevideo Department	S

History

Until the 2000s each department issued its own plates with its own codes and designs. In the early 2000s (the 2001 unification by the Congress of Intendants) a common department letter appeared, and plates of that period bore the department's coat of arms. Maldonado kept its own format the longest, and Salto issued ABC 123 plates until 2015; MERCOSUR plates have been issued since March 2015.