License plate (Libya)

Current Libyan license plate from Benghazi (8)

VW Golf VI with civil registration from Tripoli (5)

Libyan license plate before 2012

License plate for commercially used vehicles before 2012

License plate for foreigners

Taxi license plate

The license plates in Libya are similar in appearance to the license plates used in Europe . Signs for private vehicles have a white background and black text. On the left they show two blocks of numbers separated by a very short hyphen, of which the left, maximum two-digit number stands for the place of origin (e.g. 5 for Tripoli ) and the right represents a consecutive serial number. On the far right, according to the reading of the Arabic at the beginning, the writing جماهيرية ( Jamahirija ) is on older signs and, as a result of the Libyan civil war in 2011, the word ليبيا (Libya) is on newer signs.

Signs of foreign companies or residents show a blue field on the left, in which a number provides information about the respective country of origin. Taxis have yellow license plates that start with one more Arabic letter. For two-line labels, the serial number is on the bottom line. Diplomatic license plates show black letters on a red background.

Before the revolution, foreign vehicles passing through were given green and yellow customs plates (diagonal field separation, black writing). Only those foreign license plates that did not contain Latin letters were excluded from this regulation.

In the period 1998–2012 (Arabic inscription " Jamahirija ") the following key figures were used in the blue field for foreigners:

11 Egypt

12 Germany

13 Tunisia

14 Lebanon

15 Italy

16 France

17 Turkey

18 Algeria

19 Serbia

20 Great Britain

21 Saudi Arabia

22 Greece

23 Russia

24 Morocco

25 China

26 USA

27 Czech Republic

28 Spain

30 Iraq

32 Pakistan

33 Venezuela

34 Kuwait

35 Bulgaria

38 Poland

39 Hungary

40 Switzerland

41 Denmark

42 Finland

43 Sweden

44 Chad

45 Austria

46 Netherlands

47 Slovakia

48 India

49 Yemen

50 Bosnia and Herzegovina

51 Mauritania

52 Niger

53 Nigeria

54 Romania

55 Japan

56 United Arab Emirates

58 Somalia

59 Brazil

60 Uganda

61 Congo

62 Rwanda

63 North Korea

64 Argentina

65 Bangladesh

66 Burundi

67 guinea

68 Qatar

69 Gambia

70 Cuba

71 Togo

72 Central African Republic

73 Afghanistan

74 Malaysia

75 Philippines

76 Ethiopia

77 Gabon

78 Vietnam

79 Jordan

80 Senegal

81 Australia

82 Panama

83 South Korea

84 Benin

85 Mali

86 Iran

87 Nicaragua

88 Ghana

89 Grenada

90 Burkina Faso

91 Cyprus

92 Bahrain

93 Oman

94 Djibouti

95 Comoros

96 South Africa

97 Cameroon

99 Eritrea

106 Zimbabwe

108 Liberia

111 Malawi

119 Indonesia

120 Ukraine

125 Canada

130 Norway

157 Ireland

180 Belarus

190 Vatican

In the case of diplomatic license plates, the following number block indicated the function of the license plate holder.

Private vehicles had three blocks of numbers: 45 (district ("city center") 5 ("Tripoli")) serial number.

The 5 is currently used for Tripoli, the 8 for Benghasi.

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