License plate (Cuba)

Current license plate number (state)

License plate for rental cars

Diplomatic plates

Two-line variant

The current Cuban license plate system was introduced on May 27, 2013 and is based on the appearance of the Euro license plates . The signs of the previous systems, on the other hand, were based on the US standard.

Current system

The signs have a size of 420 mm × 110 mm and are therefore ten centimeters shorter than the standard European size. They begin with an area on the left-hand side in which the country name CUBA is represented by letters on top of each other. In the case of private vehicles, the area is white, while in the case of state registration it is filled in blue. This is followed by a letter and six digits in two groups of three in FE script . License plates for two-wheelers are 200 mm × 140 mm and show only five digits. In contrast to previous systems, all signs now have a uniform white basic color with black text. Different types of vehicle are identified by certain letters. A regional allocation of the vehicles is no longer possible. The letters I, O, Q, S, W and Z are not used.

Meaning of the letters:

Letter	Explanation
A.	administration
B.	other state vehicles
C.	Diplomatic Corps
D.	Diplomatic Corps
E.	Diplomatic Corps
F.	army
K	Foreigners
M.	Home Office
T	Rental cars for tourists
P	local private owners
R.	local private owners, for motorcycles

System 2002–2013

yellow = private vehicles

motorcycle

blue = state vehicles

motorcycle

orange = foreign and religious institutions

brown = lower administrative level

Between January 2002 and May 2013, Cuban license plates usually consisted of three letters and three digits. The country name CUBA could be read above the combination . A small number appeared in the middle below that indicated the type of vehicle. During the first letter on the authorization province left of the vehicle close to the vehicle-use has been characterized by a combination of the second letters and different colors.

First letter

Letter	province
A.	Ciego de Ávila
B.	Mayabeque to 2010 La Habana
C.	Camaguey
F.	Cienfuegos
G	Granma
H	Havana city
I.	Isla de la Juventud Special Administrative Region
M.	Matanzas
N	Guantánamo
O	Holguín
P	Pinar del Río
?	Artemisa
S.	Sancti Spiritus
T	Las Tunas
V	Villa Clara
U	Santiago de Cuba

Second letter

Second letter	Color of the shield	meaning
A.	White	Ministers, provincial administration, other high-ranking people
	light brown	Government and administrative employees of lower ranks
D / E / F / G / H	yellow	Private vehicles
K	yellow	Vehicles of foreign persons
	light brown	foreign companies, joint ventures , foreign journalists, religious institutions
R.	yellow	private motorcycles and "cocotaxis"
S / T / U / V / W	blue	State vehicles
Y Z		state motorcycles

Special marks

License plate for rental cars

Diplomatic plates

License plates for tourists and rental cars were red with white text. They showed a T and five digits at the beginning of the sign . Temporary license plates started with the Province of letters and ended after four digits on the Letter P . The color was red too. For both types of license plates, the vehicle type was not represented by the small number.

Light green license plates with black lettering were reserved for the Ministry of the Interior. They showed the provincial letter followed by five digits. The abbreviation MININT for Spanish Ministerio del Interior (Ministry of the Interior) appeared in the lower center .

Cuban military license plates had dark green plates with white text. A letter is followed by a maximum of six, and for two-wheelers a maximum of four numbers. Under the combination, the abbreviation FAR appeared for Spanish Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (Revolutionary Armed Forces).

Diplomatic license plates used the color scheme white on black. The label consisted of six digits, the first three of which encoded the country of origin. In the lower left corner, a small letter indicated the status of the vehicle. The letters C ( consular corps ), D (diplomatic corps) and E (other embassy vehicle) were used.

Web links

Commons : License Plate Number of Cuba  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cuba cambiará Matriculas de identificación de vehículos. (No longer available online.) April 29, 2013, archived from the original on May 2, 2013 ; Retrieved July 24, 2013 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.