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157 clues · 107 countries.
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157 clues · 107 countries.
Showing 157 clues across 107 countries.
The most common and recognisable Alaskan licence plate is all yellow. In Generation 4 coverage you can also get a plate with a large orange circle in the middle. Front plates are required in Alaska.
Albanian licence plates either have blue strips on both sides or a single red strip on the left side.
NOTE: Albania is the only European country with red on the left side of the licence plate. Furthermore, Italian licence plates also have blue strips on both sides, however Italian front plates are distinctly shorter.
Andorran licence plates have an orange dot on the left side and can be regularly found throughout the country.
NOTE: Within Europe, this plate is unique to Andorra.
Argentina uses two types of licence plates: a black one, which will be visible on street view with a black dot in the middle, and a white one with a blue bar at the top.
NOTE: The black dot can only be found on Argentinian licence plates, while the blue bar can be found in Brazil as well.
White vertical pole stickers with several digits can be found in Tucumán.
Different states use different licence plate designs, which can be somewhat visible through the blur.
Austria has long, white licence plates with the standard blue EU strip on the left.
NOTE: Italian plates have two blue strips, on both sides of the plate. Italian plates also tend to be noticeably shorter.
Swiss plates are long and white, but lack the blue strip.
Bangladeshi licence plates are either white, black or turquoise.
NOTE: The turquoise plate can only be found in Bangladesh.
Licence plates in Belgium use red text. You can recognise this distinct colour even through the blur.
Bermudan licence plates are all-white, fairly long, and with black digits, somewhat contained to the middle of the plate.
Licence plates in Bhutan are almost always red and can easily be seen on vehicles.
NOTE: Within Asia, Bhutan is the only country that uses full red licence plates.
Taxis in Bhutan have yellow licence plates and yellow roofs.
Bolivia has short, white licence plates with blue text. The blue text can be hard to see through the blur, so plates might appear as plain white.
Botswana has white front plates and yellow rear plates, similar to UK-style plates.
NOTE: Botswana and Namibia are the only countries in southern Africa where yellow rear plates are predominantly found.
Licence plates in Brazil were white until 2018. Now, a white plate with a blue stripe on top is used. Red is still used for commercial vehicles.
Similar to the Bahia and Pernambuco poles, Goiás poles also use long, yellow pole paint with a black paint code, but it always starts with a number. They also have a rarer yellow on black pole ID, which can be either paint or a plate.
This small yellow or orange plate attached onto the pole by thin metal or zip tie is found in Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco. This ID is usually much higher up the pole in Pernambuco than in Rio Grande do Norte.
Most poles in Maranhão have a small beige plate with numbers built into the surface of the pole. This pole ID can be found in Pará and Piauí more rarely.
São Paulo has a square, yellow pole ID paint. It has three letters on top followed by two numbers, a black line, and four more numbers. The three letters represent the municipality within São Paulo, but are rarely visible.
Bulgarian licence plates have the typical European design, with the blue strip on the left.
Licence plates are white with blue letters. The blue sheen of the letters can be hard to see through the blur, and the plates might appear as plain white.
Plates on government vehicles are green.
Each province has its own unique licence plates, some recognizable from afar even when blurred. Multiple provinces do not require front plates, which can be useful when deciding between provinces.
NOTE: Since 2019, front plates are no longer required in New Brunswick. However, you should still expect to see them in older coverage. As well, all commercial vehicles in Newfoundland and Labrador are required to use front plates, and so it is possible to see them on vans and pickup trucks.
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Regular vehicles have white licence plates, while commercial and taxi vehicles have orange plates.
NOTE: Orange plates can also be seen in Ecuador. Brazilian commercial plates are red, but can look similar in some lighting.
Chinese licence plates are blue with white text.
Christmas Island has yellow licence plates.
Colombian licence plates are typically yellow.
NOTE: Within South America, yellow licence plates are almost exclusively found in Colombia.
Colombian taxis are always this pastel yellow colour. As opposed to private vehicles, they have white licence plates, which are often printed on the side and roof. If unblurred, you will often see the city name.
NOTE: Ecuadorian taxis may look similar. However, they use a slightly more saturated yellow and typically have orange plates.
Costa Rican licence plates are typically short and white with blue text, giving them a light blue tint through the blur.
White pole plates with black lettering are specific to the Greater Metropolitan Area. They are usually attached to the pole using metal bands, although these may sometimes be missing.
Usually blue lettering forming a P-XXXXX code with or without the accompanying white background can be found in western Cartago province.
Taxis in Costa Rica are red, featuring yellow triangles on the sides and top containing the city/town name as well as a letter code denoting the province.
Croatia has long, white licence plates. Some plates have a blue strip on the left, some are fully white. Most cars seen in Generation 3 will not feature a blue strip on their licence plates. In addition, there is a mix of cars with or without blue strips in Generation 4, with blue strips more common on newer cars.
NOTE: Blue strips are more common along the coast due to travelling tourists from other EU countries such as Italy.
Stickers with the letters HR can be found on Croatian cars. HR stands for Hrvatska, the Croatian name for Croatia.
NOTE: These were mainly used before EU plates were introduced, meaning they will be less common in Generation 4.
Curaçao uses square licence plates that appear completely white through the blur.
NOTE: While front plates are mandatory, a minority will still not have front plates.
Cyprus uses both standard white European license plates, and UK-style plates that have a yellow rear plate. Most license plates have the EU strip on the left. Rental cars, which have a distinct red plate, are not uncommon either.
Standard plates are long and white, with a blue strip on the left. Commercial plates are yellow. And so-called “Parrot” plates have a yellow section on the left hand side. These are unique to Denmark.
NOTE: The Netherlands, Luxembourg and the UK use yellow plates for private vehicles.
DR licence plates are somewhat reminiscent of New Jersey plates, being pale yellow at the top and white at the bottom.
NOTE: The Dominican Republic is the only part of Latin America, apart from Puerto Rico and Panama, where front plates are not required.
The standard licence plates are white and can be short or long. In street view, you will often see a mix of both sizes.
Commercial vehicles, such as taxis or buses, can have older solid orange plates, or newer ones with an orange bar at the top.
NOTE: Ecuador is the only country in Latin America to use a mix of short and long licence plates.
Taxis in Ecuador are very common, and the first letter on each taxi can be used to determine the province you are in. The first letter of the taxi and the first letter of the province name are often the same.
NOTE: This letter will also appear as the first letter on ordinary licence plates respectively in each region. Beware that the letter P, as the letter for Pichincha (the region containing Quito), shows up occasionally in several regions.
Estonian licence plates are long and white, with the standard blue European strip on the left.
Licence plates in Eswatini are long and green at the bottom.
NOTE: These may look similar to certain South African plates. Make sure to refer to other clues before guessing.
Finland has shorter than normal white plates with the standard European blue strip on the left.
NOTE: Åland has small, fully white plates with blue lettering.
Licence plates on Åland are white with blue text, making them appear almost completely white on Street View. They are noticeably quite short and lack the European blue strip on the left side.
Bus stops on Åland include a white plate with 4 numbers. Some also include this semicircle sign on top.
NOTE: Some bus stops in Mariehamn do not follow this rule.
Modern French plates are long and white, with blue strips on both sides of the plate. The left strip will be more visible than the right strip.
Some older French plates lack the right blue strip, with the rear plate being yellow. These are very rare in newer coverage.
NOTE: Italian plates also have two blue strips, which are equally visible. In addition, Italian front plates are considerably shorter.
Each department has an assigned number to it, arranged mostly alphabetically. This is most useful in postal codes, consisting of 5 digits, the first two representing the department they’re in.
NOTE: the same regional codes are used inside the right blue strip on licence plates.
Germany uses these black and white bollards, with white and light-grey reflectors. The reflector will be orange on bollards next to intersections. They sometimes have plates containing the road number, and potentially other useful information. Many bollards also feature blue attachments on the side.
NOTE: Many European countries have similar bollards, however most will have different coloured reflectors. Luxembourg uses almost identical bollards, but they have 3 bolts instead of 2 on the reflector.
Circular stickers, that are usually green, are found on the bottom right of the windshield on almost every car in Germany. Not as useful to know, but they will have the number 4 written on them. They can rarely be yellow or red instead, and will have the numbers 3 and 2 respectively.
Each German state also has their own coat of arms. They are found on unblurred licence plates and some official buildings.
These basic white plates on bollards can be found in these states.
Rhineland-Palatinate is the only state where the plates on the bollards are orange instead of white.
Similarly, Baden-Württemberg is the only state where the plates on the bollards can be grey instead of white.
Yellow posts with a white plate on them are found in Saxony-Anhalt.
NOTE: Sometimes there is only 1 plate, which can make it hard to tell apart from a Brandenburg post.
Ghana uses white plates on normal vehicles, and yellow plates for commercial vehicles. They can be long or short. Because commercial vehicles are really common, you will often see a mix of both plate colours.
NOTE: Nigeria has similar white plates, but a green tint should be visible, which helps differentiate them.
Like the UK, Gibraltar uses white front and yellow back plates on vehicles.
Greek licence plates are either all white or have the standard European design, with a blue strip on the left side. Taxis have yellow licence plates.
Guatemala has short licence plates, which when blurred will typically have either a blue tinge, or a hint of green on the left side.
The most common Hawaii licence plate is white with an arcing rainbow across the centre of the plate. When blurred, you can sometimes see the outline of the rainbow. Front plates are required in Hawaii.
Hong Kong has white front licence plates and yellow rear licence plates. The licence plates can be long or short. Some cars have an additional black mainland Chinese licence plate.
Hungary uses long white standard European licence plates. Taxi licence plates are yellow.
In July of 2022, Hungary switched to this new character format, which contains the coat of arms.
NOTE: Newer electric vehicles have green plates.
Icelandic licence plates are fully white with blue characters. Unlike most of Europe, the plates do not feature a blue strip on the left.
It can be hard to see the blue of the characters through the blur of the plates.
Indian licence plates are typically fairly long, with the most common design being white. Commercial vehicles typically use yellow plates, while electric vehicles use green.
Indonesian licence plates are black with white letters. The letters usually appear as three white sections through the blur.
Commercial vehicles use yellow licence plates.
Plates in newer coverage can be white too.
NOTE: Malaysian licence plates are also black, but generally have two white sections.
Motorcycles in Indonesia have front licence plates, as opposed to other south-east Asian countries which do not.
In the rare case a licence plate is unblurred, knowing regional licence plate codes can be helpful for region guessing. 1 letter codes can only be seen in Java, and are mostly found in the west. 2 letter codes can still be seen on Java, but in the east.
NOTE: The highlighted areas on the map only refer to the first letter. A detailed map of all the codes can be seen here.
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Ireland has long, white licence plates with the standard European blue strip on the left.
The white backplate is especially useful to distinguish it from the UK, which uses yellow backplates (but white fronts). In addition, most UK vehicles lack the blue strip on the left.
Similar to the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man uses white front licence plates with yellow rears, but with a red strip on the left.
Israeli licence plates are yellow with a blue strip on the left.
NOTE: While this design is specific for Israel, it is also very common on the West Bank. Jordan and the UAE use white licence plates. Tunisia uses black plates.
Licence plates in the West Bank are often white with green text, often giving blurred plates a slight green tint. On public transport vehicles, such as taxis and buses, the colours will be inverted; green with white text, making blurred plates almost completely green.
Beware that Israeli licence plates are also very common in most of the West Bank.
This larger white Citroën follow car with a West Bank licence plate can be found in a region surrounding Jerusalem. It is noticeably found in the cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah.
NOTE: The side of this car features the text “SECURITY” in a bold font. Furthermore, this coverage will always feature a black Street View car with no antenna.
Contrary to most European licence plates, Italian plates have blue strips on either side of the plate. Furthermore, the front plate is distinctly shorter than most European plates, which in combination with the two strips, makes it unique.
NOTE: Albanian licence plates also have two blue strips, and French licence plates have a smaller strip on the right. However, neither Albanian nor French front plates are short.
Japan uses a standard short white licence plate with green text. You will often see a different short yellow version with black text issued to “light automobiles”, otherwise known as Kei Cars.
Jersey licence plates follow the British model, having a long white front and yellow rear plate. In addition, you will notice the island’s red coat of arms on the left, as well as the letter ‘J’ at the beginning of all codes in unblurred plates.
NOTE: In contrast to the British mainland, Jersey was never a member of the European Union. This means that local plates do not have a blue strip.
Jordanian licence plates are white and can be long or short. Commercial transport vehicles, such as taxis, have a distinctive green strip on the left.
NOTE: In the Middle East, the green strip is only found in Jordan.
The UAE also uses long white plates. Israel however only uses yellow licence plates. In Palestine, both white domestic and yellow Israeli plates are common.
In Amman, taxis are yellow and green.
NOTE: The colours of taxis can be useful to distinguish between Jordanian cities.
When blurred, the standard Kazakh licence plates are mostly white, with a small hint of blue on the left side.
You can occasionally spot licence plate codes on the back of trucks and buses. The codes themselves follow an alphabetical order, with smaller numbers corresponding to regions that start with earlier letters. Note that cars do travel, and as such not all codes are reliable. Buses and smaller utility vehicles are the most reliable.
These cities have buses worth learning.
Aktobe uses orange and black buses.
Zhezqazghan has orange and white buses, with “Men ♥ Jezz/Zhez” written on the sides.
Astana commonly uses these white, black, and green electric buses.
Karaganda uses turquoise buses, just like their bus stops.
Semey has these light green and white buses.
Almaty uses fully green buses, with white patterns and the city name on the sides. Taraz can use similar buses, but they will have “Taraz” written on the sides instead.
Kenya uses long white front licence plates. The rear counterpart is square and yellow.
Licence plates in Kyrgyzstan have a red strip on them.
NOTE: Licence plates with red strips can sometimes be seen in Albania and very rarely in the UAE.
If you see a small black dot on the Kyrgyzstan car mirror, you will be in this region.
Laotian licence plates are short and yellow. This distinguishes them from nearby Thailand and Cambodia, who both use white plates on non-commercial vehicles.
Laotian commercial plates are white, and government plates are blue.
NOTE: Thailand uses yellow plates for commercial vehicles, such as taxis.
Latvian licence plates are long and white, with the standard blue European strip on the left.
Standard Lebanese licence plates are either long with a blue strip on the left, similar to most licence plates in Europe, or short with a similar blue strip. Licence plates on taxis are notably deep red. You may also find licence plates with other colours.
Lesotho uses long white licence plates with blue text. If partially unblurred, you may see the Mokorotlo hat symbol on the left.
Liechtenstein uses black plates with white lettering and a yellow-and-red emblem near the left side. When blurred, the plates will appear grey, with the emblem colours being visible.
Lithuanian licence plates are long and white, with the standard blue European strip on the left.
Luxembourg uses long yellow plates with a blue strip on the left.
Since Luxembourg is a small country, foreign cars with white plates are somewhat common.
NOTE: There are only a few other European countries that use yellow plates for private vehicles:
The Netherlands has yellow plates front and rear.
The UK has yellow rear plates.
Some pre-2009 French cars have yellow rear plates.
Almost all of Luxembourg’s landscape consists of green rolling hills, with a patchwork of agriculture and forests.
NOTE: If you see a yellow licence plate, and you are not sure what country it belongs to, landscape is often a good clue: almost all of the Netherlands is completely flat.
Macau uses black licence plates with white text. Licence plates can either be long or square.
Malaysian licence plates are black and generally have two white sections. These are visible even when blurred.
NOTE: Indonesian licence plates are also black, but they will have three white sections.
Like most of Europe, Maltese licence plates have a blue strip on the left. However, unlike most of Europe, short plates are very common.
Mexico uses short licence plates with a large variety of designs. Front plates are required.
NOTE: For an overview of the most common regional designs, see step 2.
Every state in Mexico has one or several unique licence plate designs. In this infographic you can find the most common and helpful ones.
Monaco’s licence plates are short and lack the blue strip.
You will still see a lot of normal French plates around, however. These French vehicles often still have the old yellow back plates, due to how old the Generation 2 coverage is.
Mongolian licence plates are mostly white with a hint of red on the left side from the Soyombo symbol.
Montenegro uses the standard European plate with a blue strip, and the Montenegro coat of arms on a red circle. The red circle is visible through the blur.
NOTE: The white section of Albanian licence plates do not have a red circle.
Namibia primarily uses yellow front and back licence plates. Vanity plates are white, with blue lettering.
NOTE: Botswana and Namibia are the only countries in southern Africa where yellow rear plates are predominantly found.
Nepali licence plates are typically fairly long, with the most common design being white. Private vehicles use red plates, while public vehicles use black ones.
The Netherlands has long, yellow licence plates with the standard European blue strip on the left. Dutch taxis have blue plates.
NOTE: The only other countries in Europe with yellow licence plates are Luxembourg and the UK. For the UK, only the back plates are yellow, and they often lack the blue strip. In addition, some older coverage in France features the French yellow back plates. In Denmark, you can find yellow plates on commercial vehicles.
New Zealand uses white licence plates with black text, which appears mostly white through the blur.
NOTE: Some vehicles have custom licence plates which make the sides of the licence plate appear blue or black.
A medium sized black vertical sticker with 5 digits is found in West Coast, Tasman, southern Canterbury and southern Northland.
A long black vertical sticker with 6 digits with a small black square beneath it, is found on most of the North Island, in Southland and in Otago. On the North Island the first digit will be a 3 or a 4, while on the South Island it starts with an 8.
NOTE: There is a similar regional black sticker with 6 digits but without a small square below it. Additionally, the sticker can rarely be white.
Similarly, a small white horizontal pole sticker with several numbers is found in several parts of the North Island.
NOTE: The edges of the plate must be straight, meaning they cannot be rounded. Rounded plates are seen all across the country.
Nigeria uses short licence plates that appear somewhat green through the blur.
This map shows states with unique vehicle and tuk tuk colours. If a vehicle is shown, the state will have yellow tuk tuks.
NOTE: There may be some rare exceptions to what is shown in the image. Paint jobs in-game may also differ slightly to those shown in the image.
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North Macedonian licence plates are white and sometimes have the standard European blue strip on the left. They also have a noticeable red block near the left side of the licence plate.
NOTE: Serbia will almost always have a blue strip on their licence plates.
Norway has long white licence plates with the standard European strip on the left.
Commercial plates are green. These are often seen on vans.
NOTE: Within Europe, green licence plates are most commonly seen in Norway, but can also be found on electric vehicles in several other countries.
Small, wide black pole plates, with a single line of letters and digits, can be found in southeastern Norway.
Licence plates on private vehicles are generally yellow, while commercial vehicles have red plates.
Many bins have a set of numbers on them that can be used to always get the region.
The first pair of numbers give away the governorate, and the second pair further divide the governorates into smaller subdivisions.
NOTE: This map does not list every regional code.
Pakistan uses short licence plates and each region has its unique design. However, as all of the coverage was taken in Punjab, most plates will have the Punjab design, with a green strip on the left side. Fully green plates are also fairly common.
NOTE: India primarily uses long licence plates.
Panama features short licence plates, most commonly white with a horizontal turquoise strip on the top. Rarely, the strip can have other colours.
Front plates are not required in Panama.
Yellow taxis with a chequerboard patterned horizontal stripe are a common sight in Panama. The licence plate will be drawn on the side, containing the city name and a regional code.
The first digit of taxi and bus licence plates can be used to regionguess Panama.
NOTE: Cars travel, so they are not always reliable, especially outside of cities.
The eastern provinces often have tall vertical plates that can be yellow or white. They are commonly attached to poles by black zip ties.
NOTE: Be careful not to mix them up with these white vertical plates, often attached by metallic zip ties. They are slightly wider than the eastern plates and always have 6 digits.
Thin yellow plates, vertical or horizontal, with a visible black border are most common in the Colón Province.
Peruvian licence plates are either white or yellow. In contrast to the white plates, yellow plates are less likely to be seen.
Additionally, taxis in Peru typically use licence plates that are yellow on the top and white on the bottom.
NOTE: Within South America, yellow licence plates are only found in Peru, Colombia and rarely, Chile.
Wide red and white stickers will typically be attached to the side of taxis and commercial vehicles.
NOTE: While less common, these can be found in some neighbouring countries.
Standard white licence plates with black text are used for passenger vehicles. You can also find many older plates from the 2002 series, which are recognisable due to their green tint.
Motorcycles in the Philippines have regional colour-coded plates as seen on this map. Notably, the northern half of the country has the coloured strip at the top, while the southern half has it on the bottom of the plate.
Poland has long white plates with the standard European blue strip on the left.
NOTE: Newer electric vehicles have green plates.
Portuguese plates are long and white, with a blue strip on the left. Most plates have a yellow strip on the right, which is unique to Portugal.
The yellow strip was discontinued in 2020, so in Generation 4 coverage you may sometimes see plates with just the blue strip.
Front plates are not mandatory in Puerto Rico. Therefore, seeing cars with front plates is rare. This helps differentiate from Guam and Northern Mariana Islands.
Regular cars in Qatar have long, white licence plates with a maroon strip on the left. Trucks have square, black licence plates and police plates are blue.
Romania uses standard long, white European plates with a single blue strip on the left.
Russian licence plates are fully white with black text.
NOTE: Most European counterparts will feature a blue strip on the left hand side.
In Generation 3 coverage you will somewhat commonly find unblurred licence plates, featuring a regional code on the right side. The codes are generally ordered alphabetically within each type of federal subject, starting at republics and ending with autonomous okrugs. Therefore, the Republic of Adygea will be represented by 01, and the Amur Oblast by 28, both being the first alphabetical subjects of republics and oblasts respectively. If you encounter a three digit code, the second and third digit will form the regional code, in this case 123 becomes 23, for Krasnodar Krai. You may also find the codes written out on the back of trucks and vans.
Rwanda uses long white front and yellow back licence plates.
Licence plates can be either white or yellow and either short or long. They all have a blue EU strip however, and the white plates will also have a blue strip on the right, as is custom in France. Vehicles may or may not have front plates.
Sammarinese licence plates are short, white and have blue lettering on them.
NOTE: Other European countries will typically have longer licence plates, often with one or more blue strips.
Senegal is the only African country to use fully blue licence plates. A newer version exists in Generation 4 which looks like the standard European licence plate which is white with a blue strip on the left.
Serbian licence plates are white with a blue strip on the left. Agricultural plates, on vehicles such as tractors, are green.
NOTE: Croatian and North Macedonian plates typically do not have a blue strip.
Most Singaporean licence plates are black, with white text. Occasionally, you will be able to see the British style white-and-yellow plates and very rarely red plates.
NOTE: Neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia also use black plates with white text. However, the letters will usually be divided into two or three sections - this is not the case for Singaporean plates.
Each province features a different licence plate design, which can be somewhat visible through the blur. Most notably Free State or KwaZulu-Natal, which have a slight green tint and blue tint respectively.
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South Korea uses a variety of different licence plates.
Pre-2006 plates are short and green. These will still show up in the street view coverage.
Post-2006 plates are white for private vehicles, and yellow for commercial vehicles. These can be long and short.
Spain uses standard long, white European plates with a single blue strip on the left.
NOTE: Most Portuguese plates have a yellow strip on the right. Italian plates have two blue strips on either side of the plate.
Vehicles in Sri Lanka have long white front plates and short yellow rear plates.
Licence plates in Svalbard are generally black with yellow text.
Swedish licence plates are long, white, and have the standard blue EU strip on the left side. Licence plates on taxis have a yellow background instead of white.
Swiss licence plates differ substantially from other European plates. They are fully white and lack the blue strip found in most other European countries.
Front plates are extremely short compared to most in Europe.
Rear plates can be either long or tall. In both cases the red country emblem can be seen on the left, while the canton emblem can be seen on the right.
Cantons are the first-level administrative division of Switzerland. It is very common to find the two-letter abbreviation for the canton that you are in, as seen on some town entry signs. As such, remembering these can be a great asset when region-guessing Switzerland.
NOTE: If you happen to come across an unblurred licence plate, the first two letters will correspond to the canton that it is registered in.
Thailand uses large, white licence plates on passenger vehicles, and yellow ones on commercial vehicles.
NOTE: Within Southeast Asia, yellow commercial plates are only found in Thailand. Be careful, however, as Laos uses yellow licence plates for regular vehicles.
These black boxes will often provide a three-letter abbreviation of the province. Two formats are used:
Starting with the abbreviation followed by 4 numbers
Starting with TCC-L2, or rarely TCC-L1, followed by the abbreviation
Shown in the picture is the abbreviation “NTB” for Nonthaburi. The abbreviations may vary slightly in each province depending on the format.
NOTE: Other boxes may feature different formats that correspond to the subdistrict of the province.
Bangkok uses pink and yellow on green taxis.
NOTE: Yellow on green taxis may rarely be seen elsewhere, but pink taxis are practically exclusive.
Tunisian licence plates are black with white text.
NOTE: Military plates feature a small Tunisian flag on the left side of the plate, which is visible on the dark green follow car.
The dark green Mazda is the most common follow car in Tunisia. This becomes apparent if you look at the coverage map, it can be found all the way from Hammamet to Djerba. Aside from the darker colour, it can also be recognized by its military licence plate with a red strip on the left.
Turkey uses the same licence plates as most of Europe: they are long and white, with a blue strip on the left.
Uganda uses white front plates with yellow rear plates. These plates can be long or tall.
Ukraine uses long, white licence plates, with a distinctive blue and yellow strip on the left (the colours of the flag).
You may also come across older plates, where the blue and yellow are difficult to spot.
NOTE: Russia uses fully white licence plates, without a strip on the left.
The first two letters on Ukrainian licence plates determine in which oblast the vehicle is registered in, making unblurred licence plates very useful for regionguessing. Unlike most regional plates in Europe, they’re not intuitive, so learning the codes beforehand is essential for utilising them.
NOTE: The map shown only applies to the most recent and common plates, with a blue and yellow strip. The older plates use a regional number code, similar to Russia.
UK front plates are white, while back plates are yellow. Some plates have a blue strip on the left, but most do not.
Additionally, you might see a plate with a green ‘Zero Emissions’ strip.
NOTE: Ireland uses white front and back plates, always with a blue strip on the left.
The US, as well as most of the Americas, uses short licence plates, in contrast to longer European ones. Each US state has their own unique licence plate design. Some of these are recognizable through the blur, and are thus worth learning. Around half of the states also do not require front plates, which can also be useful in determining the state.
You can click on the image to enlarge it. Here you can also find a map showing the locations of each plate.
Uruguayan licence plates are plain white with black characters.
NOTE: Neighbouring Argentina also uses white licence plates, but they will have either a black dot in the middle or a blue bar at the top.
Licence plates are short, typically either having a bright blue or a dark blue design.
Vietnamese licence plates are white with black lettering. Both long and short versions are in use.
Vietnamese licence plate codes, which are often painted onto the sides of trucks and other vehicles, are another useful clue to figure out the region.