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Driving in Belarus

The licence plates you will see on the road in Belarus, how to read them, and what a car from abroad needs.

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Speed limits

Default limits for cars, unless signs say otherwise, as on the signs at border crossings.

In towns
60 km/h
Outside towns
90 km/h
Motorways
120 km/h

Before you drive

Vignette and tolls
There is no vignette. Major highways are tolled electronically by BelToll, and cars registered outside the Eurasian Economic Union (Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan) must pay as well. They need an on-board unit (20 euro deposit), available at BelToll customer points next to the road border crossings; driving without paying costs 100 euros.

Rules and prices change. Check the official site before you travel.

BLR

Country code

Cars registered here show the country code BLR. Abroad, the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic asks for it at the rear of the car: on a white oval sticker, or as part of the plate. A car from abroad shows its own country code at the rear in the same way.

Reading the plates

Plates carry an area code that shows where the car was registered: 9 codes across 7 regions. For example:

1234 AB-1
Area codes on the mapAll area codes

Plates you will see

  • 1234 AB-7

    Standard · Since 2004

Special plates

Older plates still on the road

  • 1234 ABC

    Standard · 2000–2004

  • 1234 AB

    Standard · 1992–2000

Plate formats and history of Belarus

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