Vehicle registration plates of Azerbaijan

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.

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.

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

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 Azerbaijani 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, bold means this department is a part of Naxçıvan AR):

Code	Department	Code	Department	Code	Department
01	Absheron	26	Xaçmaz	51	Samux
02	Ağdam	27	Xankəndi	52	Salyan
03	Ağdaş	28	Xocavənd	53	Siyəzən
04	Ağcabədi	29	Xızı	54	Sabirabad
05	Ağstafa	30	İmişli	55	Şəki
06	Ağsu	31	İsmayıllı	56	Şamaxı
07	Astara	32	Kəlbəcər	57	Şəmkir
08	Balakən	33	Kürdəmir	58	Şuşa
09	Bərdə	34	Qax	59	Tərtər
10/77/90	Baku	35	Qazax	60	Tovuz
11	Beyləqan	36	Qəbələ	61	Şahbuz
12	Biləsuvar	37	Qobustan	62	Zaqatala
13	Not used	38	Qusar	63	Zərdab
14	Cəbrayıl	39	Qubadlı	64	Zəngilan
15	Cəlilabad	40	Quba	65	Şərur
16	Culfa	41	Laçın	66	Şirvan
17	Daşkəsən	42	Lənkəran	67	Babək
18	Əsgəran	43	Lerik	68	Tərtər
19	Füzuli	44	Masallı	69	Ordubad
20	Gəncə	45	Mingəçevir	70	Ucar
21	Gədəbəy	46	Naftalan	71	Yardımlı
22	Goranboy	47	Neftçala	72	Yevlax
23	Göyçay	48	Oğuz	75/85	Naxçıvan
24	Hacıqabul	49	Saatlı	99	Azerbaijan (Nationwide)
25	Göygöl	50	Sumgait

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

External links

• Media related to License plates of Azerbaijan at Wikimedia Commons
• AZ-TR | avtomobil dövlət qeydiyyat nişanı | plaka kodları TarPas kanalında.