German vehicle registration plate (Kfz-Kennzeichen)
ID de_vehicle_plate
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Registration number of a vehicle in Germany as shown on the plate. It has a distinguishing sign of one to three capital letters for the registration district (umlauts possible), such as B (Berlin) or M (München), then an identification number of one or two letters (no umlauts) and one to four digits without a leading zero, at most eight characters in all. E marks electric vehicles and H historic vehicles. The euro plates, the only ones issued since November 2000, dropped the hyphen after the district sign, but it is still common in data. Official, military, diplomatic, seasonal and red dealer plates follow other rules and are not covered.
- Categories
- Transportation
- Countries
- Germany
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Presidio
DE_KFZ- Quality
- 100/100
- Metacrafter rules
- 2 rules (1 by field name, 1 by value)
devehicleplatefieldfield, de/de_transport.yamldevehicleplatevaluedata, de/de_transport.yaml
- Supported by tools
- IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), metacrafter, Microsoft Presidio
Regular expression
^[A-ZÄÖÜ]{1,3}[- ]?[A-Z]{1,2} ?[1-9]\d{0,3}[EH]?$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| AB CD 123H | Format example of a historic vehicle plate from German Wikipedia |
| M-XY 1234 | Synthetic plate of München written with a hyphen |
| B-AB 0123 invalid | The number never starts with 0 |
| M-ÄB 123 invalid | The letters of the identification number have no umlauts |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| German | Kfz-Kennzeichen | |
| Russian | Номерной знак транспортного средства Германии | Регистрационный номер автомобиля в Германии - от одной до трёх букв района регистрации, одна-две буквы и от одной до четырёх цифр (не более восьми символов), E для электромобилей и H для исторических. |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfz-Kennzeichen_(Deutschland)
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Germany
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/de_vehicle_plate - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/DE/transport/de_vehicle_plate.yamlon GitHub