Ukraine


OVAL : UA

Passenger series
Motorcycle series
Trailer series
Commercial and state owned series
Diplomatic series
Transit series
Pictures of the entire code list

Passenger series

Current passenger series since March 2004 in black on white.
The registration consists of two letters, followed by four numerals and two letters.
The first two letters denote the region (oblast) where BM stands for Sumy.
Left of the plate is since April 2015 a blue band with UA in white below the Ukrainian national flag.
Only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Current passenger series since March 2004 in black on white.
The registration consists of two letters, followed by four numerals and two letters.
The first two letters denote the region (oblast) where CA stands for Cherkasy.
Left of the plate is since April 2015 a blue band with UA in white below the Ukrainian national flag.
Only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Current passenger series since March 2004, two-line in black on white.
The registration consists of two smaller letters, followed by two smaller letters, above four numerals.
The first two letters denote the region (oblast) where BH stands for Odessa.
Left of the plate is since April 2015 a blue band with UA in white below the Ukrainian national flag.
Only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Current passenger series since March 2004 in black on white.
The registration consists of two letters, followed by four numerals and two letters.
The first two letters denote the region (oblast) where AA stands for Kiev.
Left of the plate is a blue-yellow band (as the Ukrainian flag) with UA below the national coat-of-arms.
Only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Former passenger series issued between 1995 and February 2004 in black on white.
The registration consists of three numerals, a hyphen, two numerals and two letters.
To the left is the national flag above two small numerals that denote the district, where 13 stands for Luhans’k.
Only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Former passenger series issued between 1995 and February 2004, two-line plate in black on white.
The registration consists of five numerals above two letters.
Bottom left is the national flag above two small numerals that denote the district, where 13 stands for Luhans’k.
Only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Former passenger series issued between 1993 and 1994 in black on white.
The registration consists of one smaller letter, followed by four numerals and two letters.
The last two letters denote the region where IC stands for Chernivtsi.
Left of the registration is a separate panel with the oval UA in black below the national flag.

Motorcycle series

Current motorcycle series since March 2004 in black on white.
The registration consists of two letters above four numerals above two letters.
The first two letters denote the region (oblast) where AI stands for Kyiv province.
Top left of the plate is since April 2015 a blue band with UA in white below the Ukrainian national flag.
Only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Trailer series

Current trailer series since March 2004 in black on white.
The registration consists of two letters, followed by four numerals and XX.
The first two letters denote the region (oblast) where AA stands for Kiev City.
Left of the plate is a blue-yellow band (as the Ukrainian flag) with UA below the national coat-of-arms.
Only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Former trailer series issued between 1995 and February 2004 in black on white.
The registration consists of five numerals above two letters, lower corners are always cut away.
The two letters denote the district where AM stands for Luhans’k.
Only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Former trailer series issued between 1995 and February 2004 in black on white.
The registration consists of five numerals above two letters, lower corners are always cut away.
The two letters denote the district where MH stands for Chernihiv.
Only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Former trailer series issued between 1995 and February 2004 in black on white.
The registration consists of five numerals above two letters, lower corners are always cut away.
The two letters denote the district where OH stands for Kirovohrad.
Only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.
Note the SU oval at the right hand side of the picture.

Commercial and state owned series

Former commercial and state owned series (originally USSR) issued between 1980 and 1992 in black on white.
The registration consists of four numerals, followed by three letters.
The first two letters denote the district where KX stands for Kiev.
For vehicles travelling outside the country, only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Former commercial and state owned series (originally USSR) issued between 1980 and 1992 in black on white.
The registration consists of four numerals, above three letters.
The first two letters denote the district where BH stands for Volyn.
For vehicles travelling outside the country, only letters common to Cyrillic and western alphabets are used.

Diplomatic series

Current diplomatic series since 2014 in black on white.
The registration consists of the letters CDP, followed by three numerals.
The letter CDP indicate heads of embassies and international organizations while the numerals 54 stand for Belgium.

Current diplomatic series since 2004 in black on white.
The registration consists of the letter D, followed by three numerals and three numerals.
The first three numerals denote the embassy where 199 is an unknown code.

Transit series

Current transit series issued since 2005 in white on red.
The registration consists of two smaller numerals, followed by two letters and four numerals.
The two smaller letters denote the region where 11 stands for Kiev city.
Left of the plate is a blue-yellow band (as the Ukrainian flag) with UA below the national coat-of-arms.

AK	Crimea	Simferopol
AB	Vinnitsa	Vinnitsa
AC	Volyn	Lutsk
AE	Dnepropetrovsk	Dnepropetrovsk
AH	Donetsk	Donetsk
AM	Zhitomir	Zhitomir
AO	Zakarpatsk	Uzhgorod
AP	Zaporozhe	Zaporozhe
AT	Ivano-Frankovsk	Ivano-Frankovsk
AI	Kiev	Oblast
AA	Kiev	City
BA	Kirovograd	Kirovograd
BB	Lugansk	Lugansk
BC	Lvov	Lvov
BE	Nikolayev	Nikolayev
BH	Odessa	Odessa
BI	Poltava	Poltava
BK	Rovno	Rovno
BM	Sumy	Sumy
BO	Ternopol	Ternopol
AX	Kharkov	Kharkov
BT	Kherson	Kherson
BX	Khmelnitskiy	Khmelnitskiy
CA	Cherkassy	Cherkassy
CB	Chernigov	Chernigov
CE	Chernovtsy	Chernovtsy
CH	Sevastopol	City

Ukrainian district codes (followed by their main town) issued between 1995 and February 2004.
Pictures of the entire code list

01	Crimea	Simferopol
02	Vinnitsa	Vinnitsa
03	Volyn	Lutsk
04	Dnepropetrovsk	Dnepropetrovsk
05	Donetsk	Donetsk
06	Zhitomir	Zhitomir
07	Zakarpatsk	Uzhgorod
08	Zaporozhe	Zaporozhe
09	Ivano-Frankovsk	Ivano-Frankovsk
10	Kiev	Oblast
11	Kiev	City
12	Kirovograd	Kirovograd
13	Lugansk	Lugansk
14	Lvov	Lvov
15	Nikolayev	Nikolayev
16	Odessa	Odessa
17	Poltava	Poltava
18	Rovno	Rovno
19	Sumy	Sumy
20	Ternopol	Ternopol
21	Kharkov	Kharkov
22	Kherson	Kherson
23	Khmelnitskiy	Khmelnitskiy
24	Cherkassy	Cherkassy
25	Chernigov	Chernigov
26	Chernovtsy	Chernovtsy
27	Sevastopol	City