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Lithuania

Lietuva

Lithuanian ordinary plates use three letters and three digits. Current issues add the national coat of arms between the EU field and serial; modern letters are not geographic.

CURRENT STANDARD
ABC 482
AAA 000Introduced 2004 · arms added 2023
THE SYSTEM

How the numbering works

01

The ordinary example follows AAA 000.

02

Pre-2004 regional letter associations no longer apply to current registrations.

03

The integrated or adjacent international identifier is LT.

04

Motorcycles, trailers and restricted mounting spaces may use a dedicated stacked or compact physical format.

05

Diplomatic, temporary, trade, historic or public-service vehicles use protected combinations that sit outside the ordinary sequence.

BEYOND THE STANDARD

Special & distinctive series

Colour and suffixes can completely change a plate's meaning.

ABC 482

Standard private

The current ordinary AAA 000 registration.

EV 0482

Electric

Electric vehicles use protected EV allocations.

T 48219

Taxi

Taxis use a dedicated yellow family.

01 048

Diplomatic

Diplomatic plates use green backgrounds and mission numbers.

CURRENT REFERENCE

Lithuania's current plate system

A reconstructed current plate and concise system timeline, separated from the more extensively documented country archives.

2004 · arms added 2023
LTABC 482

Present registration system

Lithuanian ordinary plates use three letters and three digits. Current issues add the national coat of arms between the EU field and serial; modern letters are not geographic.

2004

Current grammar introduced

The AAA 000 system establishes the ordinary plate described above.

Today

National sequential

Pre-2004 regional letter associations no longer apply to current registrations.

BEYOND THE EVERYDAY

More plates worth knowing

Special status, vehicle class or use can change the colour, prefix, suffix or even the entire registration logic.

Electric
EV 0482

Electric vehicles use protected EV allocations.

Taxi
T 48219

Taxis use a dedicated yellow family.

Diplomatic
01 048

Diplomatic plates use green backgrounds and mission numbers.

CURRENT GRAMMAR

How to read Lithuania's ordinary plate

Lithuanian ordinary plates use three letters and three digits. Current issues add the national coat of arms between the EU field and serial; modern letters are not geographic.

FormatAAA 000

The ordinary example follows AAA 000.

Geographic clueNational sequential

Pre-2004 regional letter associations no longer apply to current registrations.

International markLT

The integrated or adjacent international identifier is LT.

Physical variantsEuropean long format

Motorcycles, trailers and restricted mounting spaces may use a dedicated stacked or compact physical format.

Protected seriesSpecial use

Diplomatic, temporary, trade, historic or public-service vehicles use protected combinations that sit outside the ordinary sequence.

VISIBLE CATEGORIES

Ordinary and special plates use separate visual rules

Colour, prefix, dimensions or a control field can signal a different legal registration class.

Standard privateABC 482

The current ordinary AAA 000 registration.

ElectricEV 0482

Electric vehicles use protected EV allocations.

TaxiT 48219

Taxis use a dedicated yellow family.

Diplomatic01 048

Diplomatic plates use green backgrounds and mission numbers.

PLATE REFERENCE

Formats and protected families

Search the ordinary AAA 000 grammar and the principal special registrations represented in this guide.

6 of 6 entriesNational sequentialCountry mark LT
AAA
Opening registration blockOrdinary format · 1
000
Registration block 2Ordinary format · 2
ABC
Standard privatePlate family · 1
EV
ElectricPlate family · 2
T
TaxiPlate family · 3
01
DiplomaticPlate family · 4
GOOD TO KNOW

Three road-side clues

Pre-2004 regional letter associations no longer apply to current registrations.

The LT identifier distinguishes the country in international traffic.

Special-series colours and codes are legal status markers rather than decorative alternatives.

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