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Design

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All license plates are rectangular, with variations in size and color according to the class of the vehicle. Most plates prominently display the vehicle registration ID, which usually consists of Thai letters and a number string. The province of registration is shown below the ID.[a] The letters are embossed, and all plates must also be embossed with a seal bearing the letters "ขส". The current designs are regulated by the notification of the Department of Land Transport dated B.E. 2554 (2011 CE) for buses and trucks, and by the ministerial regulation issued B.E. 2554 for other motor vehicles.

General plates

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Plates for cars, vans, pick-up trucks, motorised tricycles, trailers, road rollers, tractors and agricultural vehicles follow the same design. They are 15 by 34 centimetres (5.9 by 13.4 in) in size, with a coloured and embossed outline. The registration ID consists of two series letters followed by a serial number string of up to four digits, from 1 to 9999, without leading zeroes, e.g. "กข 1" or "กข 1234". A leading digit may be added in front of the two letters if the letter pool has been exhausted, as is the case in Moscow since 2012, giving the format "1กข 1234". Due to the case, the new plates, since 2012, have reduced text size, to keep the plate size. The province of registration is displayed in Thai underneath the registration ID, with the exception of Yala Province which cars can also register at Betong District, due to its distant proximity from Mueang Yala District where the administrative offices are located. The colors of the text and background depend on the type of vehicle, and are given in following table:[1]

Vehicle type Background color Text color Example image
Inter-province taxis Yellow Red
Car taxis Black  
Motorized tricycle taxis (tuk-tuks) Green  
Mini truck taxis (commonly known locally as "Subaru"s) Blue
Business-, tourist- and rental-service vehicles (including airport and hotel taxis) Green (aquamarine) White  
Private cars (not more than seven seats) and 4 door pick-up trucks White Black  
Private vans (more than seven seats) Blue  
Private 2 door pick-up trucks Green  
Private motorized tricycles Red  
Small trailers, road rollers, tractors and agricultural vehicles Orange Black  

Vanity (auction) plates

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A vanity plate issued in Chiang Mai Province

Since 2003,[2][3] certain serial numbers in each series are made available for auction. These include single-digit numbers (1); twin (11), triplet (111) and quadruplet (1111) numbers, round thousands (1000); straight three-digit (123) and four-digit (1234) numbers; and pairs of two like numbers (1122, 1212, 1221).[2] Such IDs are accompanied by vanity plates with a special background image customized for each province. The auction plates, also called Super Number (Thai: ทะเบียนรถเลขสวย, RTGSthabian rot lek suai, lit. meaning "beautiful number car registration plate") by the Department of Land Transport (DLT),[4] are only in private passenger car type until 2014, when private pick-up and private van auction plates are made available.[5][6]

In 2014, the highest price paid at auction for a vanity plate was set at 25,000,000 baht (about US$771,000) for a Bangkok plate "1กก 1111 กรุงเทพมหานคร".[7][8] Because of its very high price, DLT allowed the buyer to design the background image.[9] In 2020, the new record was set at 28,100,000 baht (about US$935,000) for "8กก 8888 กรุงเทพมหานคร".[10]

In 2021, the Department of Land Transport confirmed the plan to release personalized plates for private passenger car type via auction. The serial letters can be a word or a person name in the Thai script: longer than 2-3 letters in the standard plates, and vowel and tone symbols can be used.[11][12] The first auction of special plates took place in Bangkok on April 7, 2022, with 84 Bangkok special plates, most of them are auspicious words and numbers, and few of them are names or nicknames with numbers.[13]

Series letters

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Series letters are specific to vehicle classes. Personal cars have series beginning with (in order of adoption) ก, ข, ฆ, ง, จ, ฉ, ช, ฌ, ญ, ฎ, ฐ, ธ, พ, ภ, ว, ศ, ษ and ส; pick-up truck licenses begin with (in alphabetical order) ฒ, ณ, ต, ถ, บ, ป, ผ, ย, ร and ล; vans' begin with น, ฬ, อ and ฮ. Car taxis have IDs beginning with ท and ม. Mini truck taxi IDs begin with ฟ. Some series beginning with ส are used for tuk-tuk taxis, and some beginning with ฌ, ณ, ฎ are used by service vehicles. Trailers, road rollers, tractors and agricultural vehicles, including rot i-taen (Thai farm trucks), have ซ as their first series letter, or ฆ for some provinces.

Each new letter pair is announced by the DLT. Each provincial registrar accordingly registers new vehicles under its latest available letter pair until all 9,999 numbers have been exhausted, then moves onto the next series letter. Letters whose appearance may be confused are skipped, and so are letter pairs which form words with bad meanings. For example, the combinations "ชน" and "ตด" are not used, as they form words meaning "crash" and "fart".

Thai International Plate Conversion
Cyrillic Conversion Transliteration
А A a
Б B b
В C v
Г D g
Д E d
Е F e
Ё G jo / yo
Ж H ž/ zh
З I z
J th
K n
L d
M t
N th
O th
P r
Q n
R b
S p
T ph
U ph
V f
W ph
X m
Y y
Z r
1 l
2 w
3 s
4 s
5 s
6 h
7 l
8 -
9 h
11 y
12 th
13 th/d
14 ch
ญญ V1
ฒฒ V2
ฑฑ V3
ญฒ V4
ฒญ V5
ฑญ V6
ฑฒ V7

Historical designs

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Although license plates have likely been used since the promulgation of the Motor Vehicle Act, Rattanakosin Era 128 (1910 CE), the earliest legislation of which details are available is from 1967. The size of license plates was specified at 11 by 39 centimeters, with white text on a black background.[14] A two-letter abbreviation of the province name, arranged vertically, was displayed to the left, and the registration ID, consisting of either a five-digit serial number or a single series letter and a four-digit serial number, was displayed to the right, e.g., "(ก.ท.) 01234" or "(ก.ท.) ก-0123". This was changed in 1975 to black-on-white plates with a size of 15 by 30 centimeters.[14] The series identifier for Bangkok was also changed to consist of one-digit number plus one letter, e.g., "1ก-0123". The province name was given in full under the ID, as in the current system. The serial number was displayed with leading zeros, which were dropped, along with the dash, when the current format was adopted in 1997.

Motorcycle plates

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Plates for motorcycles are 17.2 by 22 centimeters, with an outline. Information is displayed in three horizontal rows. The series letters and leading number is displayed on the top row, and a serial number of up to four digits on the bottom row, e.g. "1กข 1234". The province of registration is shown on the middle row.[b] The lettering is done in black, with a white background for private motorcycles and a yellow background for hired motorcycles.[1]

Diplomatic vehicle plates

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License plates issued to members of diplomatic missions, international organizations or United Nations specialized agencies based in Thailand are 11 by 38.7 centimeters in size, with the format "ท 01 - 1234". On the top left is a letter denoting the status of the registrant ("ท" for diplomatic agents, "พ" for members of special embassy agencies, "ก" for consular agents, and "อ" for international organizations or United Nations agencies). On the bottom left is a number code denoting the country or organization. On the right is a serial number string of up to four digits, with a separating horizontal line in the middle. Motorcycle plates have a similar appearance but with a size of 9 by 27 centimetres (3.5 by 10.6 in). Plates issued to diplomatic agents are colored black on white, those issued to honorary consuls are black on gray, and others are white on light blue.[1]

Bus and truck plates

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License plates for buses and trucks are separately regulated, and have a size of 22 by 44 centimetres (8.7 by 17.3 in). They show the registration number which consists of two series digits and four serial digits (with leading zeros), separated by a horizontal line. The word THAILAND is displayed in capital letters above the number. The province of registration is displayed below the number, with the "ขส" seal to the left. A numerical provincial code is shown in the top right. The text is colored black, with a yellow background for hired vehicles and a white background for private vehicles.[15]


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  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference 2011 regulation was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b กฎกระทรวง กำหนดหมายเลขทะเบียนซึ่งเป็นที่ต้องการหรือเป็นที่นิยม เพื่อนำออกเปิดประมูลเป็นการทั่วไป พ.ศ. 2546 [Ministerial regulation specifying registration numbers of high demand or popularity for general auction, B.E. 2546] (PDF). Royal Thai Government Gazette (in Thai). 120 (75A): 1–4. 8 August 2003.
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  6. ^ ขนส่งฯ เปิดประมูลทะเบียนรถตู้-กระบะ เริ่ม 13 ส.ค. [DLT open pick-up and van plates auction in August 13] (in Thai). Thai Rath. 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2014-10-10.
  7. ^ Amornrat Mahitthirook (2014-09-30). "Student pays B25m for 'lucky' licence plate". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 2014-10-02.
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  9. ^ รถ5แสนติดทะเบียน25ล้าน หนุ่มเจ้าของโอ่ไม่แพง [A 500,000 baht car use 25 million baht license plate. Young man, the owner, said it's not expensive.]. Thai Rath (in Thai). 2014-10-01. Retrieved 2014-10-02.
  10. ^ "ทุบสถิติแพงสุด! "แพทย์หญิง"ควัก 28 ล้าน ซื้อทะเบียนรถ "8กก8888"" [Break the record for the most expensive! "Female physician" pays 28 million, buys car license plate "8กก8888"]. Matichon (in Thai). 2020-10-10. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
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  14. ^ a b เก่งกรีฑาพล, ประพิม (17 September 2012). ป้ายทะเบียนรถใหม่ "1กก"ใช้ได้อีก157ปี [New registration plate "1กก" to last 157 years]. Daily News (in Thai).
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