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consisted of a two-letter district code that showed the place where the car carrying them was registered, followed by a

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and two groups of digits that could contain two or three letters, for example: BG 12-34, BG 123-45 or BG 123-456. The letter codes matched the municipalities of Yugoslavia:

Special plates

* Trailer plates had the reverse format of the normal plates, starting with the digits and ending with the regional code. * Diplomatic plates had yellow letters on black background. The vehicles were marked with an oval sticker with a mark CMD, CD or CC. * Plates of vehicles and trailers belonging to the Yugoslav armed forces had the red star separated on the left side, together with a red ''JNA'' inscription. * Temporary plates had RP (''registrovano privremeno'') on the place of the district code, followed by three or four digits, a vertical red band containing the year of registration and a numerical denotation of the republic where the vehicle was temporarily registered. *

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plates had white letters on blue background and started with M (''milicija''). * Agricultural plates had white letters on green background. * Vehicles with exceptional dimensions received red plates with white letters.

Successor state plates

Vehicle registration plates of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina vehicle registration plates have held their current form since 2 February 1998. Currently the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) vehicle registration plate format consists of seven characters: five numbers and two letters arrang ...

Vehicle registration plates of Croatia The standard licence plates in Croatia consist of a two-letter city code which is separated by the Coat of Arms of Croatia from three or four numbers and one or two letters. Regular plates The standard regular plate consists of three or four ra ...

Vehicle registration plates of Kosovo Vehicle registration plates of Kosovo are issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo. As of June 1, 2012, all residents of Kosovo are obliged to fit their cars with KS or RKS plates. Non-compliance results in confiscatio ...

Vehicle registration plates of Montenegro Present Montenegrin car plates have black characters on a rectangular white background, with blue strip on the left. The plates follow the 520 mm x 110 mm format, except for motorcycles. The present licence plates format was introduc ...

Vehicle registration plates of North Macedonia North Macedonia's vehicle registration plates consist of a two-letter region code, followed by a 4-digit numeric and a 2-letter alpha code (e.g. SK 1234 AB). Issuance of the new plates started on 20 February 2012, and they introduced a f ...

Vehicle registration plates of Serbia Vehicle registration plates of Serbia are issued using a two-letter region code, followed by three or four-digit numeric and a two-letter alpha license code, separated by a hyphen (e.g., BG 123-AA or BG 1234-AA). Overview The regional code and t ...

Vehicle registration plates of Slovenia Slovenian car number plates are vehicle registration plates found on Slovenian cars. The code for Slovenia itself is SLO. The registration plates are made of metal. On the left there is a blue bar as in other European Union, EU countries (in use ...

References

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Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

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