North Macedonia

Current plate formats

• StandardSince 2012
  SK 1234 AB

  Two Latin letters for the town (SK = Skopje, BT = Bitola, OH = Ohrid), four digits and two letters, 520 x 110 mm, with a blue field on the left carrying NMK (MK until 2019) and a red-and-yellow badge between the town code and the digits that repeats the code and the last two letters in Cyrillic. Q, W, X and Y are not used. Taxis use a yellow background and government vehicles a red one with yellow characters. Temporary plates for foreign residents have green characters.

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• Dealer and testCurrent
  SK 123456

  Short-term dealer and test plates (ПРОБА, proba): the town code, a red and yellow chequered strip with the word PROBA, and six digits; no blue field. The older series had five digits.

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• PoliceCurrent
  123 456

  Police vehicles. Six blue digits in two groups of three (rear plate only).

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• DiplomaticCurrent
  09-CC-001

  A two-digit number for the country or organisation, then CD (diplomatic corps), CC (consular corps), CMD (head of a diplomatic mission) or S (non-diplomatic staff), then a serial number; the year of issue is shown as well. The system follows the Yugoslav one and has been used since 1996 (1993-1996: A, E and M).

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Statistical regions (8)

• Vardar Statistical Region
• East Statistical Region
• Southwest Statistical Region
• Southeast Statistical Region
• Pelagonia Statistical Region
• Polog Statistical Region
• Northeast Statistical Region
• Skopje Statistical Region

Older formats

No longer issued, but some may still be on the road.

• Standard1993–2012
  SK-123-AB

  The first national plates: two letters for the town, three digits, a short hyphen and two letters, with red stripes along the top and bottom edges and the letters РМ (Република Македонија) in a red rectangle between the code and the digits (from 1995 the rectangle showed the code in Cyrillic). The first of the last two letters used to point to the municipality. Plates of this series are still on the road.

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History

1. 1993

   The first national plates replace the Yugoslav ones: ten town codes (BT, GV, KU, OH, PP, SK, SR, TE, ŠT for Štip and TV for Titov Veles), red stripes top and bottom, three digits and two letters.

2. 1996

   Titov Veles goes back to the name Veles (the German article says the code changed in 1999); its code TV is replaced by VE and the old plates are phased out.

3. 2012

   New Euro-sized plates with a blue field on the left, four digits and the Cyrillic badge are issued from 20 February. Štip changes ŠT to ST to avoid the diacritic and seven new codes appear (GE, KA, KI, KO, KP, RA, SU).

4. 2013

   Six new codes on 1 March (BE, DE, NE, RE, SN, VI) and, from 1 September, VV for Vevčani.

5. 2015

   Seven new codes on 4 July (DB, DK, MB, MK, KR, PS, VA).

6. 2019

   After the country was renamed North Macedonia (12 February 2019), the blue field shows NMK instead of MK. Two new codes on 30 May (DH, KS).

7. 2020

   PE (Pehčevo), the 34th code, is introduced on 1 June.