import { Button } from "zudoku/ui/Button";
import { FileCode2 } from "zudoku/icons";

# Vehicle plate patterns


<Callout type="danger" title="Important things!">
  - **Only capital letters A-Z and numbers 0-9 are used in the vehicle plate (without spaces) for ALL countries**
  - **Additional letters of the Latin alphabet like `Č`  `Ć`  `Đ`  `Ž`  `Š`  `Ä`  `Ö`  `Ü`  may be used depending on the country**
  - **Certain letters and numbers are #excluded in some countries**
  - **All `Austrian` and `German` vehicle plates must have a dash (-) symbol instead of a coat of arms ∇**
</Callout>

<Callout type="info" title="Validate vehicle plate">
  You can validate vehicle plates using our [Validate vehicle plate endpoint](/api/extended-list-endpoints#validate-vehicles) before creating order.
</Callout>

## 🇦🇹 Austria

The alphanumeric format for registration plates is "XX ∇ number + letter(s)" or "XX ∇ personalised letters + number";

XX - one or two letters which indicate the local registration office (district where the registered possessor resides). 
As a general rule, State capitals have one letter, other districts have two letters.

∇ - the coat of arms of the Austrian state the district belongs to have a dash (–) instead
A three to six-letter/number sequence which uniquely distinguishes each of the vehicles displaying the same initial area code.

- **The letter `Q` is excluded from all sequences**.

Examples:

`P-DXN1`
`S-626VY`
`W-TKT1`
`W-76067I`
`ME-639A`
`KU-217BI`
`ZE-248KJ`

<Button size="default">
  <FileCode2  /> <a href="/api/extended-list-endpoints#validate-vehicles" target="_blank"> Validate Vehicle plate </a>
</Button>

[Read more on wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Austria)

## 🇩🇪 Germany

Examples:

`M-AE2821`
`R-WI282`
`MY-RS9999`
`FS-LL777`
`OF-PS309E`
`FFB-AM483`
`TÖL-BA218`

NOT standard plates:

`M-AE2821E` - `E` at the end of the plate means that the vehicle is electric

`AA-L2205H` - `H` at the end of the plate means that the vehicle is a historic car

`K-F393A` - `A` at the end of the plate means that the vehicle is a car with an environmental badge

`AIC-DX525W` - `W` at the end of the plate means that the vehicle is a car with a red environmental badge

<Callout type="info" title="Important things!">
  - Requests for non-standard plates must include an additional parameter in `cars` ​object[]
  `type` with the value of `export`, `temporary` , `diplomatic` or `custom` depending on the type of the plate.
</Callout>


<Button size="default">
  <FileCode2  /> <a href="/api/extended-list-endpoints#validate-vehicles" target="_blank"> Validate Vehicle plate </a>
</Button>

[Read more on wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Germany)

## 🇨🇿 Czech Republic

-   **The letters `G`, `CH`, `O`, `Q` and `W` may not be used**

<Button size="default">
  <FileCode2  /> <a href="/api/extended-list-endpoints#validate-vehicles" target="_blank"> Validate Vehicle plate </a>
</Button>

[Read more on wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Czech_Republic)

## 🇸🇮 Slovenia

<Button size="default">
  <FileCode2  /> <a href="/api/extended-list-endpoints#validate-vehicles" target="_blank"> Validate Vehicle plate </a>
</Button>

[Read more on wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Slovenia)

## 🇭🇷 Croatia

<Button size="default">
  <FileCode2  /> <a href="/api/extended-list-endpoints#validate-vehicles" target="_blank"> Validate Vehicle plate </a>
</Button>

-   **The letters `Q`, `W`, `X` and `Y` may not be used**
-   **Vehicle plate can contain letters like `Č`, `Ž`, `Š`**

[Read more on wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Croatia)

## 🇸🇰 Slovakia

[Read more on wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Slovakia)

## 🇵🇱 Poland

-   **The letters used in licence plates include all standard Latin alphabet letters outside of `Q` (not used at all in the Polish language).**
-   **The letters `B`, `D`, `I`, `O`, and `Z` cannot be used in series area (on the right, after the gap), because they could be confused with similarly-looking digits.**
-   **Custom plates are allowed to include these letters though. The leading 0 in numbers is part of the code and is never omitted.**

[Read more on wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Poland)

## 🇺🇦 Ukraine

Ukraine

## 🇷🇴 Romania

-   **The letter `Q` is not used as it may be confused with the letter `O`**

[Read more on wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Romania)

## 🇧🇬 Bulgaria

-   **Only 12 letters are used on the left side (i.e. province codes) these are: `A`, `B`, `E`, `K`, `M`, `H`, `O`, `P`, `C`, `T`, `Y`, `X`.**
-   **Only 10 letters are used on the righ side (i.e. series codes) these are: `A`, `B`, `E`, `K`, `M`, `H`, `P`, `C`, `T`, `X`.**


<Button size="default">
  <FileCode2  /> <a href="/api/extended-list-endpoints#validate-vehicles" target="_blank"> Validate Vehicle plate </a>
</Button>

[Read more on wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Bulgaria)