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

# Danish vehicle registration plate (`dk_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 standard Danish vehicle plates: two letters and five digits, written AB 12 345. Since 2012 letters and digits are assigned at random.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Transportation (transport)
- Countries: Denmark (DK)
- Languages: Danish (da)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{2} ?[0-9]{2} ?[0-9]{3}$
```

## Examples

- `AB 12 345` — Format example from Wikipedia
- `AB 1234` (invalid example) — Four digits

## Supported by tools

- `sasinformationcatalog`

## Sources

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

## Quality

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

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