Vehicle registration plates of Gandhara

Gandhari vehicle registration plates are license plates found on Gandhari vehicles.

Appearance

A Gandhari license plate with plate number "745N69-11", which in Arabic reads "11-69N745" from right to left.

The license plate is rectangular in shape and made of aluminium. On the left, there is a 4×10 cm blue stripe with the national flag and the country code "GAN". License plates for private vehicles have black characters on a white background. The white field in the middle contains the first part of the plate number, and the square on the right hand side contains the name of the Gandhari governorate where the car is registered in Arabic and the regional code. Every governorate has its own regional code. On all vehicles two plates have to be present, one in front and the other in rear, except on motorcycles and tractors.

Numbering system

Vehicles registered in Gandhara are assigned to one of the governorates. The plate number consists of 8 characters in the format "NNNLNN-XX", where N is a numeral, L is a letter in Arabic script, and XX is the regional code.

Regional codes

Regional codes by map.

Regional codes range from 11 to 40, depending on the governorate where the car is registered. Below is a list of the regional codes per governorate.

Governorate	Code	Governorate	Code
Abyad	16	Kirmani	19
Adnan	12	Maajid	13
Badawi	15	Malekian	32
Balochistan	30	Mawardi	39
Bayazidi	29	Miskawayh	37
Bazegha	20	Morteza	14
Caesarea	28	Nasr	22
Dabbagh	23	Qumi	17
Dimashqi	25	Sabbah	36
Dinawar	34	Sadarak	35
Farabi	18	Sadat	11
Haydar	21	Sijistan	31
Kashani	24	Tayran	40
Khani	26	Umayyah	27
Khuzaymah	38	Wakra	33

Letters

The following Arabic letters are used on Gandhari registration plates.

Arabic letter	Translation	Actual transliteration (if different)
ا	A
ب	B
ح	J	ḥ
د	D
ر	R
س	S
ص	X	ṣ
ط	T
ع	E	‘
ق	G	q
ك	K
ل	L
م	M
ن	N
ظ	Z
و	U
ي	Y