Belarusian vehicle registration plates are currently mainly composed of four digits – the vehicle identifier, two letters – the number plate series, and the region code – a final digit indicating the region of Belarus in which the vehicle 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); E123 AB-5 – for electric automobiles; AB 1234-5 - for automobiles with more than 3.5 tonnes of weight, trucks and buses (categories C, D); AB E123-5 – for electric trucks and buses; A1234B-5 - for trailers. __TOC__
Car registration The letters used for plate series are confined to those appearing in both the Belarusian Cyrillic and Latin alphabets – A, E, I, O, B, C, H, K, P, T, X.
Following region codes are used:
1 - Brest Region (, ) 2 - Viciebsk Region (, ) 3 - Homieĺ Region (, ) 4 - Hrodna Region (, ) 5 - Minsk Region (, ) 6 - Mahilioŭ Region (, ) 7, 8* - Minsk (city) (, )
*On 4 March 2025, the head of the State Traffic Police Viktar Ratchankow announced that all possible combinations of license plate numbers for region code 7 have been exhausted. Due to this, a reserve code "8" will be issued for vehicles registered in city of Minsk.
The codes are assigned by alphabetic order of region names in Russian, with Minsk city outside of this order. It mostly coincides with the same order in Belarusian, except for Mahilioŭ Region preceding Minsk Region in the latter.
Occasionally, the digit 0 is used instead of region code to indicate that the vehicle is property of Ministry of Defense, State Border Committee or Internal Troops of Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Special plates
Diplomatic plates have the represented country or organization stated using the first 2 digits.
List of codes +First digitsCountry or organization01Executive Committee of the 020304050607080910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243International Science and Technology Center44Economic Court of the 45Ministry of Foreign Affairs46474849505152World Bank53European Bank for Reconstruction and Development54Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe5556International Organization for Migration57International Monetary and Financial Committee585960616263646566Executive Committee of the 676869707172737475767778798081828384Eurasian Development Bank8586
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 (Pahonia) in the centre, separating the digits from the letters. After the controversial change of the symbols of Belarus in 1995, in 1996 it was replaced by a sticker with the inscription "BELARUS" surrounded by the folk motif found on the current official flag of Belarus.
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
References
External links
Olavsplates.com Demon.co.uk Where in Belarus does that vehicle come from? Pl8s.com Current Belarusian licence plates PlatesMania.com A gallery of Belarusian license plates