A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate, license plate or licence plate, is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes. All
Two Swedish snowmobiles with license plates attached to the side of the vehicles
Some license plates such as this Victorian one features holograms to deter numberplate cloning.
A Thai registration plate with a Malaysian numberplate sticker directly below the car to allow for cross-border travel from Thailand to Malaysia
The damage to the enamel on this Wyoming license plate from 1916 exposed the iron, causing it to rust.
Vehicle registration plates in China are mandatory metal or plastic plates attached to motor vehicles in mainland China for official identification purposes. The plates are issued by the local traffic
Vehicle registration plate
…120 mm (17.3 by 4.7 inches) – in South Africa and Finland. 440 by 140 mm (17.3 by 5.5 inches) – in China, but 480 by 140 mm (18.9 by 5.5 inches) for New Energy vehicles. 450 by 100 mm (17.7 by 3.9 inches) – in Syria and Tunisia (front plates…
Current regular legal standard number plate from the PRC, registered in Changsha, Hunan
Layout and examples of 1986-series plates.
Pre-2017 Chinese diplomatic license plate. The first code is the character: 使 (shǐ, literally "diplomatic"), representing the embassy. The code 132 represents the Czech Republic, but it may not be due to Beijing having codes unreleased due to privacy reasons.
A Macau-registered Tesla vehicle with license plates from mainland China, Macau, and Hong Kong