License plate (Bhutan)

Regular license plate

Government license plate

Police license plate

Taxi number

License plate of the Royal Bodyguard

The license plate of Bhutan are from the Road Safety and Transport Authority awarded. Most of the license plates show characters of the Bhutanese official language Dzongkha on the upper edge . The number plates are structured according to the following scheme XX-1-X1111, whereby the number between the two hyphens provides more information about the origin of the vehicle. The type of vehicle can be specified in more detail using the first two letters and the color of the sign.

Digit	Zone
1	West Bhutan
2	Central Bhutan
3	Eastern Bhutan
4th	South Bhutan

colour	Letters	Vehicle type
white on red	BP	Private vehicles
black on yellow	BT	Taxis
yellow on red	BG	Government vehicles
white on blue	CD	Diplomats

Older license plates show three letters and four digits, whereby the origin can be read from the letters.

Diplomatic license plates have white letters on a blue background. As is customary internationally, they show the letters CD between two groups of numbers.
In addition, the Royal Bodyguard also has its own license plates. They show the letters RBG for Royal Bodyguard . A sequential number follows. Half of the background is black and the other half is based on the flag of Bhutan .

Web links

Commons : License Plate (Bhutan)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Road Safety and Transport Authority with pictures ( Memento from January 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Illustrations of Bhutanese license plates