Vehicle registration plates of Egypt
Egyptian vehicle registration number plates are used for official identification purposes for motor vehicles in Egypt.
Appearance
The current vehicle registration plates, which have been used since August 2008, are rectangular in shape and made of aluminum.The top part has the word "Egypt" in English and Arabic in black font on backgrounds of different colors depending on the type of license the vehicle is given. Motorbikes have similar but much smaller plates with light blue and dark blue the only colors available.
The vehicle registration number consists of two parts:
- Numeric part: 3 numbers for Cairo license plates, 4 for the rest of the governorates
- Alphabetical part: 2 letters for Giza license plates, 3 letters the rest of the governorates
| Plate code | Governorate Vehicle Registration | Image |
| 0000-xx | Giza Governorate | |
| 000-xxx | Cairo Governorate | |
| 0000-xxأ | Cairo Governorate | |
| 0000-xxس | Alexandria Governorate | |
| 0000-xxق | Qalyubia Governorate | |
| 0000-xxر | Sharqia Governorate | |
| 0000-xxم | Monufia Governorate | |
| 0000-xxب | Beheira Governorate | |
| 0000-xxد | Dakahlia Governorate | |
| 0000-xxع | Gharbia Governorate | |
| 0000-xxل | Kafr El Sheikh Governorate | |
| 0000-xxف | Faiyum Governorate | |
| 0000-xxو | Beni Suef Governorate | |
| 0000-xxن | Minya Governorate | |
| 0000-xxى | Asyut Governorate | |
| 0000-xxهـ | Sohag Governorate | |
| 0000-x ص أ | Qena Governorate | |
| 0000-x ص ق | Luxor Governorate | |
| 0000-x ص و | Aswan Governorate | |
| 0000-x ط د | Damietta Governorate | |
| 0000-x ط ع | Port Said Governorate | |
| 0000-x ط ب | Port Said Governorate | |
| 0000-x ط ص | Ismailia Governorate | |
| 0000-x ط س | Suez Governorate | |
| 0000-x ط ر | Red Sea Governorate | |
| 0000-x ط أ | North Sinai Governorate | |
| 0000-x ط ج | South Sinai Governorate | |
| 0000-x ج هـ | Matrouh Governorate | |
| 0000-x ج ب | New Valley Governorate |
Numbers go from 1 to 9 and are chosen randomly. x is a random letter.
Note : These plate codes do not apply for army, police and diplomatic vehicles.
Use of Latin letters and Western Arabic numerals was abandoned early due to the unease of reading the Arabic letters and numbers because they were too small.
To reduce the risk of confusion on account of the visual similarity between Arabic letters, only a limited number of letters are used. They and the Latin letters the Egyptian government uses to correspond to them are:
| Arabic letter | Latin letter |
| أ | A |
| ب | B |
| ج | G |
| د | D |
| ر | R |
| س | S |
| ص | C |
| ط | T |
| ع | E |
| ف | F |
| ق | K |
| ل | L |
| م | M |
| ن | N |
| هـ | H |
| و | W |
| ی | Y |
Size
Standard license plates are of 17x35 cm.Design and format
The top rectangle in the license plate is color-coded according to the type of vehicle being licensed.- Private vehicles: Light Blue
- Taxis: Orange
- Trucks: Red
- Buses: Gray
- Limousines and tourist buses: Beige
- Diplomatic Vehicles: Green, Instead of letters, there are numbers on the plate, ### - ##
- Vehicles with unpaid customs: Yellow
- Police vehicles: Dark blue; additionally, the Arabic and English for "Police" replace "Egypt" in the upper bar. The writing at the top is white, as opposed to black.
- ''Motorcycles: Light Blue, same as private vehicles, the registration code is shown in two lines
Older versions
- Taxis: Orange
- Trucks: Red
- Government-owned vehicles, including police: Blue, sometimes with a white bar
- Public buses: Gray
- Vehicles with unpaid customs: Yellow
| Private vehicle, Cairo, early 2000s | Private vehicle, Cairo, 1990s |
| Private vehicle, Cairo, 1980s | Private vehicle, Cairo, 1970s |
Some of these older plates are still in use, but it is the government's intention to replace all the plates with the new color-coded plates within 1 to 2 years.