Talk:International vehicle registration code

This list is copied from the German list I am in the process of translation.... -- Emperorbma 07:36, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

some questions....

I think ww have to talk about this...

Belize BH or BZ ??? In my opinion BH is better because of the former name "British Honduras"

North Korea DVPR ??? 4 Letters ???

TheFlyingDutchman

Dear Frenchmen... sigh...

I know that the French language has such goofy names for numbers ("four twenties, a ten, and a seven" is the way they make "ninety-seven") that it's such a ->pain<- to bother to write the whole year, but in the English language we use all four digits.

These are license plates, which use similar but not identical codes to aircraft and ground-based radio stations. Numbers have significance in these systems. By just leaving two digits, it may indicate that the license plate begins with letters and then switches to digits. After all, we're talking about French Colonial license plates, and who knows what their system is.

Check with your original French sources, and put the year in English with all four digits. --Sobolewski 21:24, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Idea: Face-to-face of license plate codes and domain names?

Just a quick thought, to show differences (Canada=> .ca / CDN, Hungary=>.hu / H, but Croatia=>.hr/HR). Maybe useless, hence a suggestion ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ? (talk • contribs) 15 March 2006 (UTC)

You have already the article Country code, list all such codes. -- BIL 14:01, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Gibraltar

The code GBZ does not originate from a contraction of 'Gibraltar British Zone'. When the codes were originally notified, GBY was allocated to Malta and GBZ to Gibraltar.

Serbia

hi, i was last week in serbia and they there have SER, no SRB codes... i know it is unofficial but had ==

Solomon Islands

Well, there are SLB - Salomon Island and SLO - Solomon Island in the list. At Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_codes:_S#Solomon_Islands there is SLB the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3-Code of Solomon Island.

Well, I mean, we have to delete SLB - Salomon Island. --Juri1at 15:14, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

China (People's Republic of) ??

Did we miss the world's biggest country PRC = China (People's Republic of) ?? (I don't see it in the UN reference document, though it is listed in the link that goes to country abbreviations)........ ???? mr_uu 12:33, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Was thinking the same, though they might not have this. A license plate code. 159.134.94.21 12:27, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

GB vs. UK

The UK entry says the code is GB and notes that this is "as opposed to 'UK', which encompasses Northern Ireland." This implies that the GB code is not used in cars registered in Northern Ireland, but there doesn't seem to be any separate entry for Northern Ireland. So do NI-registered cars get the GB code or not? If they do, this note should go. --Jfruh (talk) 02:30, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

They do.

countries where the codes are not required

wondering where the authority is that states us/can/mex vehicles exclusively do not require codes hence the citation needed bit. also added to that list australia and iceland which i know with 100% certainty do not reqire the codes as i own vehicles in both countries. Lotsofmagnets (talk) 18:32, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

If you require the citations, understand that you must cite as well. Tagging yours. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 18:39, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

haha eye for an eye i guess. i´ll have a look through the relevant laws (may need some help looking up the icelandic ones...)Lotsofmagnets (talk) 16:10, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually what's good for the goose is good for the gander, no one's out to get you. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 16:21, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I've removed both contentions since they are unreferenced and the explanations offered are very implausible.

This code is not needed for vehicles registered in Canada, the United States or Mexico, because the plates themselves are issued by states and provinces, not the federal government. All three countries are federations, and the plates indicate the state or province the vehicle is registered in. The code is also not required in countries like Australia and Iceland which are both islands thus border crossing with vehicles is very infrequent.

Germany and Switzerland are federal too, and states there issue plates, but the cars still have ovals abroad. And the fact that there are relatively few foreign vehicles in a country does not mean the government is not going to bother requiring those that are there to follow the principle.

It may be the case that an Ontario car in Michigan needs no CAN plate, but a Canadian or US car in Europe will need a CAN/USA plate, and a Spanish car in Michigan will need an E plate. But that would still need a citation. jnestorius^(talk) 17:19, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

References incomplete!!

There are a lot of distinguishing signs on this page that aren't mentioned in any of the references! So either it's crappy referencing or editors came up with their own distinguishing signs! To name a few;

- Anguilla - Angola - Antigua and Barbuda - Bhutan - Cape Verde - Comoros - Djibouti - Equatorial Guinea - Federated States of Micronesia - Guinea-Bissau - Hong Kong - Honduras - Kiribati - Korea, Democratic People’s Republic - Marshall Islands - New Caledonia - Oman - Palau - Puerto Rico - Sao Tome and Principe - Solomon Islands - Taiwan - Tonga - Tuvalu - Western Sahara

So I guess these all must be unofficial... would be good to mention this wouldn't it? The only official ones are of contracting parties of the 1968 convention of road traffic of the UN. Yet the UN also mentions some distinghuising signs of UN parties which are not contracting parties (in which the above are not mentioned or mentioned WITHOUT a distinghuising sign)

I would LOVE to know where people came up with the distinghuising signs for the above countries!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bartezz (talk • contribs) 20:43, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

United Kingdom

Interesting that the United Kingdom [23] is a signatory to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic 1968, but has not ratified. I wonder whether the provisions in Article 38 (referring to Annex 4: Identification marks of international traffic) [24] requiring the oval stickers somehow is transposed to UK domestic law in some other way. – Kaihsu (talk) 09:41, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, it is in the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic 1949 at Article 20 (Annex 4). – Kaihsu (talk) 10:02, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

According to the Ponsonby Rule this is perhaps agreed by the Parliament, but I wonder whether/how it is enforced in the UK. – Kaihsu (talk) 10:36, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Probably Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989 as amended implementing Council Regulation (EC) 2411/98. – Kaihsu (talk) 10:40, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

car oval sticker: Article 20, Convention on Road Traffic 1949: waiting for an answer. – Kaihsu (talk) 19:52, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Also somebody needs to put in a request for a copy of the the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975 as amended. It is not yet on http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/ – Kaihsu (talk) 11:23, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Requested. – Kaihsu (talk) 09:27, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

USA, Canada, Mexico

Are these codes used by cars from USA, Canada, Mexico, when driving in these three countries? I assume not. The state is shown on the plate, and it is enough? --198.208.243.251 (talk) 11:31, 5 August 2008 (UTC)