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

# Hungarian vehicle registration plate (`hu_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 Hungarian vehicle plates. Plates issued since July 2022 have four letters, with the coat of arms between the second and the third, and three digits; the first two letters are either both vowels or both consonants. Older plates, issued from 1990, have three letters and three digits. Special series are not covered.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Transportation (transport)
- Countries: Hungary (HU)
- Languages: Hungarian (hu)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `AA AB 123` — Format example of the 2022 plate from Wikipedia
- `AB 1234` (invalid example) — Four digits

## Supported by tools

- `validatorjs`

## Sources

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

## Quality

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

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