Vehicle registration plates of Lesotho

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Lesotho number plate with the mokorotlo sticker

Lesotho requires its residents to register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates.

Plates are blue-on-white for private vehicles and red-on-white for government vehicles. They follow the format of one or two letters followed by four numbers. Diplomatic Plates are blue-on-white however have the letters CD on them.

A mokorotlo, the same colour as the characters on the plate, is stuck onto the plate to show a 5-year validity period.

Dealer plates are also red-on-white but do not follow the A 1234 standard and do not show the mokorotlo.

Before 1979, private plates were white-on-black and had an additional preceding 'L' which stood for Lesotho.

Kingdom of Lesotho[]

Period following independence:

• LA – Maseru
• LB – Butha Buthe
• LC – Leribe
• LD – Teyateyaneng
• LE – Mafeteng
• LF – Mohales Hoek
• LG – Quthing
• LH – Qacha’s Nek
• LJ – Mokhotlong

Government:

• LX – Government vehicles

Diplomatic corps: Owing to a dispute between the foreign legations, several of them used distinctive codes for a period:

• UKHC – United Kingdom High Commission
• UNDP – United Nations Development Programme
• USA – United States of America
• WHO – World Health Organisation
• ROC – Republic of China (Taiwan)
• D – Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)

The rest of the legations used DC.

Colony of Basutoland[]

Prior to independence:

• BA – Maseru
• BB – Butha Buthe
• BC – Leribe
• BD – Teyateyaneng
• BE – Mafeteng
• BF – Mohales Hoek
• BG – Quthing
• BH – Qacha’s Nek
• BJ – Mokhotlong

Government:

• BX – Government vehicles

References[]

• World License Plates
• Holcroft’s South African Calendar 1975, published by Vergne, Pretoria (for earlier codes).

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