---
id: "br_vehicle_plate"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["transport"]
country: ["BR"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 75
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/br_vehicle_plate"
---

# Brazilian vehicle registration plate (`br_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 the plate of a vehicle in Brazil, issued by the state DETRANs. The national format used from 1990 has three letters and four digits, written ABC-1234 or ABC·1234, and is still valid. The Mercosur format introduced in 2018 has seven characters in the order letter, letter, letter, digit, letter, digit, digit; converted plates replace the second digit with a letter, 0 by A to 9 by J.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Transportation (transport)
- Countries: Brazil (BR)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{3}(?:[-·• ]?\d{4}|\d[A-Z]\d{2})$
```

## Examples

- `ABC1C34` — Mercosur form of ABC1234, the conversion example of CONTRAN
- `ABC-1234` — Example of the 1990 format
- `ABC12D3` (invalid example) — A letter in the wrong position

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placas_de_identifica%C3%A7%C3%A3o_de_ve%C3%ADculos_no_Brasil>
- doc: <https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/resolucao9692022anexos.pdf>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

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