---
id: "ar_vehicle_plate"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["transport"]
country: ["AR"]
langs: ["es"]
quality: 78
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ar_vehicle_plate"
---

# Argentine vehicle registration plate (`ar_vehicle_plate`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Registration number on Argentine vehicle plates. The Mercosur plates issued since April 2016 have two letters, three digits and two letters (AB 123 CD); the plates of 1995 to 2016 have three letters and three digits. The regexp accepts both, with or without spaces.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Transportation (transport)
- Countries: Argentina (AR)
- Languages: Spanish (es)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:[A-Z]{2} ?[0-9]{3} ?[A-Z]{2}|[A-Z]{3} ?[0-9]{3})$
```

## Examples

- `AB 123 CD` — Format example of the Mercosur plate from Wikipedia
- `AB 1234 CD` (invalid example) — Four digits

## Supported by tools

- `validatorjs`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Argentina>

## Quality

Score 78/100. Missing: second example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ar_vehicle_plate.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/AR/transport/ar_vehicle_plate.yaml>