Vehicle registration plates of Azerbaijan

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Vehicle registration plates of Azerbaijan are usually composed of two numbers (identifying the vehicle registration department), a hyphen, two letters, a hyphen and three numbers (e.g. 01-ABC-456789), the plates are coloured black font on a white background. The plates are the same size as European plates and usually have an Azerbaijani flag and the initials 'AZ' on the left side.

In January 2011, new style plates with a rectangular flag and a microchip were introduced. The Azerbaijan license plate incorporates an RFiD TAG/chip, the RFiD TAG is placed on the lower left corner of the license plate below the Azerbaijan national flag, in most plates the TAG has the "AZ" letters printed on. The TAG may move to the top right corner and lose the "AZ" printing on some of the more squared license plate formats. The colour of the LP still varies depending on the vehicles usage and ownership.

The Portuguese company Porta Saber, Lda is supplying the license plate RFiD TAG and the License Plate RFiD Reading System and Software.

Previous series[]

Between 1977 and 1993, Azerbaijan registration plates were manufactured in accordance with the Soviet GOST 3207-77 standard. The alphanumeric sequence took the form of: x #### XX, where x is a lowercase Cyrillic serial/counter letter; # is any digit in the range 0–9; and XX are two uppercase Cyrillic letters indicating where the vehicle was first registered.

Azerbaijan used codes АГ, АЖ and АЗ without particularity of city or department, and HK was only used for Nagorno-Karabakh.

Car designations[]

As with Turkish plates (which in turn adopted a reversed version of the former French license plate system), in Azeri plates the first two digits of the license plate represent the department, followed by a progressive 3-letter and 6-number system (progression starting with AAA-000001 and ending with ZZZ-999999). Below is a table of digits and relevant departments (italic means this department is controlled (or mostly-controlled) by Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, bold means this department is a part of Naxçıvan AR):

Code Department Code Department Code Department
01 Absheron 26 Xaçmaz 51 Oğuz
02 Ağcabədi 27 Xankəndi 52 Ordubad
03 Ağdam 28 Xızı 53 Saatlı
04 Ağdaş 29 Xocalı 54 Sabirabad
05 Ağstafa 30 Xocavənd 55 Salyan
06 Ağsu 31 İmişli 56 Samux
07 Astara 32 İsmayıllı 57 Sədərək
08 Babək 33 Kəlbəcər 58 Siyəzən
09 Baku 34 Kəngərli 59 Sumqayıt
10 Balakən 35 Kürdəmir 60 Şabran
11 Beyləqan 36 Qax 61 Şahbuz
12 Bərdə 37 Qazax 62 Şamaxı
13 Biləsuvar 38 Qəbələ 63 Şəki
14 Cəbrayıl 39 Qobustan 64 Şəmkir
15 Cəlilabad 40 Quba 65 Şərur
16 Culfa 41 Qubadlı 66 Şirvan
17 Daşkəsən 42 Qusar 67 Şuşa
18 Əsgəran 43 Laçın 68 Tərtər
19 Füzuli 44 Lerik 69 Tovuz
20 Gədəbəy 45 Lənkəran 70 Ucar
21 Gəncə 46 Naftalan 71 Yardımlı
22 Goranboy 47 Naxçıvan 72 Yevlax
23 Göyçay 48 Neftçala 73 Zaqatala
24 Göygöl 49 Masallı 74 Zəngilan
25 Hacıqabul 50 Mingəçevir 75 Zərdab

99 AZERBAIJAN

Types of plates[]

  • Government Officials - Composed XX-AA-XXX
  • Presidential Administration - Composed XX-PA-XXX
  • President's Secret Service - Composed XX-PM-XXX
  • Trailers - Composed the same way as usual Azerbaijan plates, but with no hyphen.
  • Foreign series - Composed of a letter, three numbers a space and three more numbers.

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