What Region Is It? Car Number Plate Codes That Few People Know About

Car enthusiasts are always attracted by unusual region codes on passing cars. Recently, cars with the 550th region on their license plates have been spotted on the roads of Moscow and the Moscow region. This is an additional code for the Moscow region. People on the roads are not yet used to it. But there are other regions on car number plates that surprise drivers.

What is the principle behind the distribution of region numbers?

The region codes for car number plates are assigned as follows: first come all the republics in alphabetical order, then the territories, then the regions, followed by the federal cities — Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol, followed by the Jewish Autonomous Region and four autonomous districts — Nenets, Khanty-Mansiysk, Chukotka and Yamalo-Nenets.

This well-ordered scheme failed three times. The first time was when Gorny Altai, which received the code 04, began to be referred to in official documents simply as Altai. This was the first failure in the ordered alphabetical order.

The second time was due to the events in Chechnya. This republic had the 20th region code from 1993 to 2000. But then they decided to abandon this region number. For those who don't remember, Chechnya is now the 95th region.

The fact is that during the Chechen war, many cars in the republic were registered using fake documents, because the vehicles were not obtained entirely legally. The authorities decided to deal with this, and since 2000, all new cars have received the 95th region that we are familiar with, and owners of cars with the 20th region were sent to re-register their vehicles.

The third time the scheme failed was when there were too many cars on the roads. For example, the capital's car fleet has grown to such an extent that Moscow now has 10 car region codes. And the Moscow region has slightly less — eight.

Rare car region

The rarest car region on the road is the 94th. The author of this text has never seen cars with it on the roads, but they do exist. The fact is that the 94th region is not issued in Russia, but in Kazakhstan. This is the car code of Baikonur. Our country has leased it until 2050.

Also, you can still rarely find car codes of new Russian regions on the roads: Donetsk (80) and Lugansk (81) People's Republics, Kherson (84, 184), Zaporozhye (85, 185), and Kharkov (188) regions.

Full list of Russian car region codes

01 Republic of Adygea (Adygea)

02, 102, 702 Republic of Bashkortostan

03, 103 Republic of Buryatia

04 Altai Republic

05 Republic of Dagestan

06 Republic of Ingushetia

07 Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria

08 Republic of Kalmykia

09 Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia

10 Republic of Karelia

11, 111* Komi Republic

12, Mari El Republic

13, 113* Republic of Mordovia

14 Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

15 Republic of North Ossetia — Alania

16, 116, 716 Republic of Tatarstan (Tatarstan)

17 Republic of Tyva

18 Republic of Udmurtia

19 Republic of Khakassia

21, 121* Chuvash Republic (Chuvashia)

22, 122 Altai Territory

23, 93, 123, 193 Krasnodar Territory

24, 124, 84**, 88******, 124 Krasnoyarsk Territory

25, 125, 725* Primorsky Territory

26, 126 Stavropol Territory

27 Khabarovsk Territory

28 Amur Region

29 Arkhangelsk Region

30, 130* Astrakhan Region

31 Belgorod Region

32 Bryansk Region

33 Vladimir Region

34, 134 Volgograd Region

35 Vologda Region

36, 136 Voronezh Region

37 Ivanovo Region

38, 138, 85*** Irkutsk Region

39 Kaliningrad Region

40 Kaluga Region

41, 82**** Kamchatka Territory

42, 142 Kemerovo Region

43 Kirov Region

44 Kostroma Region

45 Kurgan Region

46 Kursk Region

47, 147 Leningrad Region

48 Lipetsk Region

49 Magadan Region

50, 90, 150, 190, 750, 790, 250, 550 Moscow Region

51 Murmansk Region

52, 152, 252 Nizhny Novgorod Region

53 Novgorod Region

54, 154, 754 Novosibirsk Region

55, 155 Omsk Region

56, 156 Orenburg Region

57 Orel Region

58, 158* Penza Region

59, 159, 81***** Perm Territory

60 Pskov Region

61, 161, 761 Rostov Region

62 Ryazan Region

63, 163, 763 Samara Region

64, 164 Saratov Region

65 Sakhalin Region

66, 96, 196, 166* Sverdlovsk Region

67 Smolensk Region

68 Tambov Region

69 Tver Region

70 Tomsk Region

71 Tula Region

72, 172 Tyumen Region

73, 173 Ulyanovsk Region

74, 174, 774 Chelyabinsk Region

75, 80** Zabaykalsky Krai

76 Yaroslavl Region

77, 97, 99, 177, 197, 199, 777, 797, 799, 977 Moscow

78, 98, 178, 198 St. Petersburg

79 Jewish Autonomous Region

80, 180 Donetsk People's Republic

81, 181 Lugansk People's Republic

82, 182, 777* Republic of Crimea

83 Nenets Autonomous District

84, 184 Kherson Region

85, 185 Zaporozhye Region

86, 186 Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra

87 Chukotka Autonomous District

89 Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District

92, 192 Sevastopol

95 Chechen Republic

94 Baikonur

188 Kharkov region

Notes:

* The code was issued in a limited way

** until 2007, the code belonged to the Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) Autonomous District, after its accession to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the issuance of the code was discontinued. Now this code belongs to the Kherson region.

*** Until 2008, the code belonged to the Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous District, issuance was discontinued after joining the Irkutsk Region. Now it is the code of the Zaporozhye region.

**** Until July 2007, the code belonged to the Koryak Autonomous District, after the creation of the Kamchatka Territory, the issuance of the code was discontinued. Currently, the code of the Republic of Crimea.

***** Until December 2005, the code belonged to the Komi-Permyak Autonomous District, after the creation of the Perm Territory, the issuance of the code was discontinued. Currently, the code of the LNR.

****** until 2007 it was the code of the Evenki Autonomous District, after its accession to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the issuance of the code was discontinued.