Vehicle registration plates of East Timor

Registration plate of East Timor

Vehicle registration plates of East Timor are Australian standard 372 mm × 134 mm, and use Australian stamping dies. East Timor requires its residents to register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates.^[1] Vehicle registration numbers consist of five digits, and display the letters TL or TLS, short for Timor Lorosae, the name for East Timor in Tetum (or Timor-Leste, the name of the country in Portuguese). The current format started in 2002.

Vehicle types[]

Vehicle types[2]
Type	Example	Meaning
Private
Official	11-111A TLS

Government vehicles, Palácio do Governo, Dili

Government vehicles have a similar format, but with four digits and the letter 'G'.

Portuguese Timor[]

Portuguese Timor vehicle registration plate format

When the country was a Portuguese colony, known as Portuguese Timor, vehicle registrations followed the same format to those used in Portugal, and other colonies, using the prefix T (for Timor) or alternatively TP for Timor Português or Portuguese Timor in Portuguese in white letters on a black background.

Indonesian rule[]

Following its invasion and occupation by Indonesia in 1975, East Timor (known as Timor Timur in Indonesian) was declared the country's 27th province. As a result, the letters DF were used for registrations in East Timor.

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