Belarusian vehicle registration plates are currently composed of four digits, two letters and another digit (e.g. 1234 AB-5). The final digit indicates the region of Belarus in which the car was registered. The placement of the series letters varies for the weight class or type of the vehicle:
- 1234 AB-5 - for automobiles with up to 7 seats and up to 3.5 tonnes maximum authorised mass, and two-wheeled vehicles such as motorcycles (categories A, B);
- AB 1234-5 - for automobiles with more than 3.5 tonnes of weight, trucks and buses (categories C, D);
- A1234B-5 - for trailers.
The diplomatic series uses white letters on a red background, also in a different order from standard plates (e.g. CD 1234-5).
History
Soviet-era registration plates for Belarus carried a pair of two-digit numbers followed by letters in Cyrillic (e.g. 12 34 MББ). Following independence in 1992, the format of Belarusian registration plates became red characters — four digits and two letters on a white background — with the national crest in the centre, separating the digits from the letters
TX used on registered vehicles driven in foreign countries.
| Suffix | Region |
|---|---|
| БН | Brest |
| BT | Vitebsk |
| ГК | Grodno |
| ГС | Gomel |
| МБ | Minsk (region) |
| МГ | Mogilev |
| МИ | Minsk (city) |
Vehicles owned by foreign companies used black-on-yellow plates, and the numbers and letters appeared in a different order (e.g. M 1223).
Until 2004, the first letter of the plate series was used to indicate the region of the vehicle's registration, with the rest of the letters being taken from the series A, B, C, E, I, K, M, H, P, O, T, X:
- A Brest
- B Vitebsk
- C Grodno
- E Gomel
- HA, HB, HC, HE, HH, HI, HM, HO, HP, HT, HX Gomel
- HK Minsk
- IA, IB, IC, IE, IH, II Brest
- IK, IM, IO, IT, IX Vitebsk
- IP Minsk (city)
- K, M Minsk (city)
- O, P Minsk (region)
- T Mogilev
- XA, XB, XC, XE, XH, XI Grodno
- XK Minsk (city)
- XM, XO, XP, XT, XX Mogilev
Car registration
The letters used on Belarusian registration plates today are confined to those appearing in both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.
On current Belarusian registration plates, the final digit indicates where the car was registered:
- 1 - Brest Region
- 2 - Vitebsk Region
- 3 - Gomel Region
- 4 - Grodno Region
- 5 - Minsk Region
- 6 - Mogilev Region
- 7 - Minsk (city)
Occassionally, the final digit 0 indicates that the vehicle is property of Ministry of Defense, State Border Committee or Internal Troops of Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Special plates
- 1234 AB, white-on-red - Ministry of Internal Affairs;
- 1234 AB, white-on-black - Ministry of Defense;
- 1234 AB, white-on-green - State Border Committee;
- 7 TAX 1234, black-on-yellow - taxi;
- CD1234-7 - Diplomatic or consular corps.
External links
Media related to License plates of Belarus at Wikimedia Commons- Olavsplates.com
- Demon.co.uk Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Where in Belarus does that vehicle come from?
- Pl8s.com Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Current Belarusian licence plates
- PlatesMania.com A gallery of Belarusian license plates