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Private/Passenger Plate History Non-Passenger/Other      Bus      Commercial      Diplomatic Corps      Firefighter      Government, Official - Federal      Government, Official - Local      Military      Motorycle      Rental      Taxi States State Coding System Country Information Credits

Private/Passenger

2008 Series

Plate History

1935 - 1949 1950 - 1952 1953 - 1954	Plates issued by individual states
1955 - 1981	1955 - 1961: National plates without state designation 1962 - 1969: First letter denotes the State Code 1970 - 1971: First letter after a numeral denotes the State Code 1972 - 1974: All numerals. No state coding. 1975 - 1981: First letter denotes the State Code
1982 - 1994	1982 - 1994: New State Codes 1984 - 1994: First letter "X" for new vehicle registrations
1995 - 2007	First letter denotes the State Code Plates on Margarita Island, a free port (Puerto Libre in Nueva Esparta state, are all numeric and initially featured a bird logo in the upper left corner. It was later dropped. Subsquent issues resembled the standard plate designs (with a grey silhouette of the country) of this series.
2008 Series:	Last letter denotes the State Code

Non-Passenger/Other

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Bus

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Commercial

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Diplomatic Corps

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Firefighter

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Government, Official - Federal

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Government, Official - Local

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Military

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Motorcycle

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Rental

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Taxi

States

Amazonas	Anzoategui	Apure
Aragua	Barinas	Bolivar
Carabobo	Cojedas	Delta Amacuro
Falcón	Distrito Féderal	Guárico
Lara	Mérida	Miranda
Monagas	Nueva Esparta	Portuguesa
Sucre	Táchira	Trujillo
Vargas	Yaracuy	Zulia

State Coding System

State Code	1962 - 1982	Since 1982	Notes
A	Distrito Federal	Distrito Federal	Since 2008: Distrito Capital
B	Anzoátegui	Anzoátegui
C	Apure	Apure
D	Aragua	Aragua
E	Barinas	Barinas
F	Bolivar	Bolivar
G	(not used)	Carabobo
H	Carabobo	Cojedas
I	Cojedas	Falcón
J	Falcón	Guárico
K	Guárico	Lara
L	Lara	Mérida
M	Mérida	Miranda
N	Miranda	Monagas
O	Monagas	Nueva Esparta
P	Nueva Esparta	Portuguesa
Q	(not used)	(not used)
R	Portuguesa	Sucre
S	Sucre	Táchira
T	Táchira	Trujillo
U	Trujillo	Yaracui
V	Yaracui	Zulia
W	(not used)	Vargas	In 1998, Vargas split from Distrito Federal to become a new state.
X	Zulia	General issue Amazonas	Until 1995 Since 1995
Y	Amazonas	Delta Amacuro
Z	Delta Amacuro	(not used)

Country Information

Location	South America
Capital	Caracas
Main Religion	Christianity
Main Language	Spanish
History	Venezuela seceded from Grand Colombia in 1830
International Oval	YV
ISO Code	VE

Credits

(1) Jim Fox/Greg Gibson
(2) Mark Goodwin