Vehicle registration plates of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan vehicle license plates
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.

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 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 (italic means this department was controlled (or mostly-controlled) by Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, 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 (city)
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 Gədəbəy 45 Mingəçevir 70 Ucar
21 Gəncə 46 Naftalan 71 Yardımlı
22 Goranboy 47 Neftçala 72 Yevlax
23 Göyçay 48 Oğuz 75/85 Naxçıvan
24 Hacıqabul 49 Saatlı
25 Göygöl 50 Sumgait

Types of plates

  • Government Officials - Composed 31 AA 069
  • Ministry of Defence - Composed 31 AM 069
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs - Composed 31 AP 069
  • Ministry of Justice - Composed 31 AO 069
  • Presidential Administration - Composed 31 PA 069
  • President's Secret Service - Composed 31 PM 069
  • State Security Service - Composed 31 AS 069
  • 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.

External links

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