Vehicle registration plates of Azerbaijan

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. 31-PO-069); the plates are coloured in 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.

Sample of a current Azerbaijan license plate with RFiD TAG
A plate of the type issued before 2011
Rectangular format (rear) plate. Unlike the rear, the DIN shaped front plate on this car has dashes.

In September 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 supplies the license plate RFiD TAG and the License Plate RFiD Reading System and Software.

Number plates in Azerbaijan. Every type [1]

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.

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 2-letter and 3-number system (progression starting with 90-AA-001 and ending with 90-ZZ-999). Below is a table of digits and relevant departments,[2] bold means this department is a part of Naxçıvan AR):

CodeDepartmentCodeDepartmentCodeDepartment
01Absheron26Xaçmaz51Samux
02Ağdam27Xankəndi52Salyan
03Ağdaş28Xocavənd53Siyəzən
04Ağcabədi29Xızı54Sabirabad
05Ağstafa30İmişli55Şəki
06Ağsu31İsmayıllı56Şamaxı
07Astara32Kəlbəcər57Şəmkir
08Balakən33Kürdəmir58Şuşa
09Bərdə34Qax59Tərtər
10/77/90Baku35Qazax60Tovuz
11Beyləqan36Qəbələ61Şahbuz
12Biləsuvar37Qobustan62Zaqatala
13Not used38Qusar63Zərdab
14Cəbrayıl39Qubadlı64Zəngilan
15Cəlilabad40Quba65Şərur
16Culfa41Laçın66Şirvan
17Daşkəsən42Lənkəran67Babək
18Əsgəran43Lerik68Tərtər
19Füzuli44Masallı69Ordubad
20Gəncə45Mingəçevir70Ucar
21Gədəbəy46Naftalan71Yardımlı
22Goranboy47Neftçala72Yevlax
23Göyçay48Oğuz75/85Naxçıvan
24Hacıqabul49Saatlı99 Azerbaijan

(Nationwide)

25Göygöl50Sumgait

Types of plates
  • Government Officials - Composed as 10 AA 100
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs - Composed as 10 AZ 100, 10 AN 100, 10 AE 100
  • Ministry of Defence - Composed as 10 AM 100
  • Police Department - Composed as 10 AP 100
  • Ministry of Justice - Composed as 10 AO 100
  • Presidential Administration - Composed as 10 PA 100
  • President's Secret Service - Composed as 10 PM 100
  • State Security Service - Composed as 10 AS 100
  • Traffic Police - Composed as 10 YP 100
  • Diplomats - Composed as 001 D 001 with a red number plate (001 being Turkey)
  • Technical number plates of Embassies - 013 T 010 with a red number plate (013 being United Nations)
  • Ambassador or relative of a ambassador of a country - 002 SFR 001 with a red number plate (002 being France)
  • Trailers - Composed the same way as usual Azerbaijan plates, but with no hyphen and in a rectangular shape.
  • Foreign series - Composed of the letter H, three numbers a space and three more numbers with a yellow number plate, composed as H 023 100
  • Public Transport - Blue number plate
  • Motorcycle - Composed 10 A 100

References
  1. "License Plates of Azerbaijan". www.worldlicenseplates.com. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  2. "Avtomobil satın ala biləcəyiniz autonet.az onlayn mağazası". Autonet.az (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 2024-04-16.
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