License plate (East Timor)

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License plate from East Timor

The East Timor license plates are similar in design to those of Australia and use similar fonts.

Different types

Minibus in Laga
The President Taur Matan Ruak , his wife Isabel da Costa Ferreira and their company car
The First Lady Isabel da Costa Ferreira with her company car
Identification types
Type example
Private vehicle
11 • 111
TLS
motorcycle
A • 1111
TLS
Official vehicle
11 • 111G
TLS
Rental vehicle
TR • 034
THRIFTY CAR RENTAL - EAST TIMOR

The current design has been in use since 2002 when the country's independence was restored. The East Timorese license plates consist of five digits (the first two digits separated by a small rhombus) and underneath the letter TLS , the abbreviation of Timór Loro Sa'e , the country name in Tetum and country code according to ISO 3166 . Company vehicles have a G for governu ( German  government ) after the five digits . Rental vehicles use the letters TR instead of the first two digits ; instead of TLS it says THRIFTY CAR RENTAL - EAST TIMOR . Motorcycles have one letter and four digits.

The various members of the government have yellow and red horizontally divided plates, on which the coat of arms of East Timor is depicted. Different letter abbreviations are used according to the offices, for example PM for the Prime Minister , VICE PM for the Deputy Prime Minister and SEC , followed by a number, for State Secretaries. For example, red-yellow is the license plate on the car of the former Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri , which has the black lettering "Ex-PM-MA" under the national coat of arms.

Members of Parliament have their own license plate model, the color of which follows the national flag of East Timor : black lettering on a red background, outlined in yellow. The Parliament's logo is shown on the left. The license plate begins with the letters MP , followed by two pairs of digits and, in small letters, Timor-Leste , the internationally used country name in Portuguese .

The Commander in Chief of the Defense Forces of East Timor carries a red shield with a silver star and the silver lettering F-FDTL for Portuguese Forças de Defesa de Timor-Leste . Other military vehicles have a yellow-red horizontally divided number plate with black lettering. It starts with S and a number after a hyphen. On the left is the coat of arms of East Timor, black on a white background.

Vehicles of the regional secretariat of the special zone for social market economy ( tetum Zona Espesial Ekonomiko Sosial no Merkadu , ZEESM) Oe-Cusse Ambeno have green license plates with white letters. ZEESM TL Timor-Leste is written in green on white above the digits .

Members of the embassy are marked in green with black lettering and have a group of three digits, followed by a number and the letter CD ( French Corps Diplomatique ) after the diamond . Below that is TLS in small letters .

Portuguese Timor

License plate Portuguese Timor

Until 1975 the country was a colony of Portugal as Portuguese Timor . The Portuguese style with white characters on a black background , which had been in use since 1937, was used . The script began with T for Timor or TP for Timor Português , followed by a hyphen (this is omitted in a two-line license plate) and two pairs of digits, also separated by a hyphen.

The Portuguese armed forces used the abbreviations ME, MG and MX for the army, AP for the navy and AM for the air force, each according to the scheme ME · 12 · 34.

Indonesian occupation

Between 1975 and 1999, Indonesia occupied East Timor, which had declared itself independent just nine days earlier. In 1976 Indonesia annexed the country as the province of Timor Timur , even if this was not recognized internationally. The license plates of that time followed the white-on-black Indonesian model . The first or the first two letters stand for the Indonesian provinces, followed by up to four digits, optionally followed by up to two additional letters. In the case of Timor, Timur was used as the provincial abbreviation DF .

UN administration

From 1999 to 2002 East Timor was under UN administration. The UN vehicles used signs with white letters on a blue background, with three digits following the respective abbreviation of the mission (for example UNAMET ). Black-on-white signs with the letters UN and four digits followed later . Vehicles of later UN missions that were in the country until 2012 also had license plates with blue letters on a white background.

Web links

Commons : East Timor license plates  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c www.worldlicenseplates.com
  2. ↑ Photo of motorcycles
  3. ^ Photos of license plates of members of the government
  4. ↑ Photo of Marí Alkatiri's license plate , accessed on October 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Photo of the license plate of a member of parliament
  6. ↑ Photo of the F-FDTL label
  7. ↑ Photo of the license plates of the security forces
  8. ^ Picture of vehicles of the ZEESM Secretariat
  9. ↑ Photo of an embassy vehicle
  10. ↑ Photos of license plates from the Portuguese colonial era
  11. ^ Photo of an army vehicle in Portuguese Timor
  12. ↑ www.plateshack.com
  13. ↑ UN license plate from 2009