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. 01-BC-456), 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 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 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 90-AA-001 and ending with 90-ZZ-999). 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):

CodeDepartmentCodeDepartmentCodeDepartment
01Absheron26Xaçmaz51Oğuz
02Ağcabədi27Xankəndi52Ordubad
03Ağdam28Xızı53Saatlı
04Ağdaş29Xocalı54Sabirabad
05Ağstafa30Xocavənd55Salyan
06Ağsu31İmişli56Samux
07Astara32İsmayıllı57Sədərək
08Babək33Kəlbəcər58Siyəzən
09Baku34Kəngərli59Sumqayıt
10Balakən35Kürdəmir60Şabran
11Beyləqan36Qax61Şahbuz
12Bərdə37Qazax62Şamaxı
13Biləsuvar38Qəbələ63Şəki
14Cəbrayıl39Qobustan64Şəmkir
15Cəlilabad40Quba65Şərur
16Culfa41Qubadlı66Şirvan
17Daşkəsən42Qusar67Şuşa
18Əsgəran43Laçın68Tərtər
19Füzuli44Lerik69Tovuz
20Gədəbəy45Lənkəran70Ucar
21Gəncə46Naftalan71Yardımlı
22Goranboy47Naxçıvan72Yevlax
23Göyçay48Neftçala73Zaqatala
24Göygöl49Masallı74Zəngilan
25Hacıqabul50Mingəçevir75Zərdab

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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