Dutch license plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real Dutch license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 33 plate formats issued in Netherlands and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: 87-NR-NW.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (RDW) or a licensed plate maker, and showing a registration that was not issued to the vehicle is an offence in most places.
Private by design. The page downloads an empty plate and writes your registration into it on your device; the registration is never sent to us. Need many plates, or plates in your own app? The plates API returns every plate and its empty template for each format.
- Size
- 340 × 210 mm (13.4 × 8.3 in); 520 × 110 mm (20.5 × 4.3 in); 310 × 110 mm (12.2 × 4.3 in) for cars; 210 × 143 mm (8.3 × 5.6 in) for motorcycles
- Format
- LLL-99-L, for example KHD-91-N (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Every fact about Netherlands license plates, with its source
Every Netherlands plate you can make
50 plates across 7 classes (standard, agricultural, export, historic, moped, motorcycle, and trailer), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. Netherlands license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank Dutch license plate templates.
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Standard: Sidecode 5 heavy commercial (1994 → today) Format BL-LL-99 · e.g. BY-ZW-72 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 6 car (2000 → today) Format 99-LL-LL · e.g. 87-NR-NW Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 6 car 340×210 mm (2000 → today) Format 99-LL-LL · e.g. 17-GT-SF Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 6 car 310×110 mm (2000 → today) Format 99-LL-LL · e.g. 42-KW-WH Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 7 car (2008 → today) Format 99-LLL-9 · e.g. 67-HSB-9 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 8 light commercial (2009 → today) Format 9-VLL-99 · e.g. 7-VWX-25 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 9 light commercial (2012 → today) Format VL-999-L · e.g. VH-282-J Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 7 heavy commercial (2012 → today) Format 99-BLL-9 · e.g. 42-BJM-5 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 8 car (2013 → today) Format 9-LLL-99 · e.g. 2-ZHG-85 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 9 car (2015 → today) Format LL-999-L · e.g. GL-544-H Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 10 light commercial (2016 → today) Format V-999-LL · e.g. V-370-DF Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 10 car (2019 → today) Format L-999-LL · e.g. S-605-XX Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 11 light commercial (2019 → today) Format VLL-99-L · e.g. VVZ-94-M Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 11 car (2024 → today) Format LLL-99-L · e.g. KHD-91-N Format, years and sources
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Standard: Sidecode 12 light commercial (2024 → today) Format V-99-LLL · e.g. V-43-BVM Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 6 motorcycle (2011 → today) Format 99-ML-LL · e.g. 44-MY-MZ Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 7 moped (2005 → today) Format 99-LLL-9 Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 7 moped 100×175 mm (2005 → today) Format 99-LLL-9 Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 9 moped (2006 → today) Format LL-999-L · e.g. DD-265-Z Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 10 moped (2008 → today) Format L-999-LL Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 11 moped (2015 → today) Format LLL-99-L Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 11 moped 100×175 mm (2015 → today) Format LLL-99-L Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 12 special moped (2025 → today) Format E-99-LLL · e.g. E-51-JKP Format, years and sources
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Agricultural: GV sidecode 1 (1951 → today) Format GV-99-99 · e.g. GV-55-14 Format, years and sources
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Agricultural: GV sidecode 2 (1951 → today) Format 99-99-GV · e.g. 27-16-GV Format, years and sources
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Agricultural: GV sidecode 3 (1951 → today) Format 99-GV-99 · e.g. 63-GV-34 Format, years and sources
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Agricultural: GV sidecode 13 (2016 → today) Format 9-GV-999 · e.g. 8-GV-147 Format, years and sources
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Agricultural: GV sidecode 14 (2019 → today) Format 999-GV-9 · e.g. 457-GV-8 Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 12 agricultural tractor (2021 → today) Format T-99-LLL · e.g. T-61-HDR Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 12 agricultural tractor 340×210 mm (2021 → today) Format T-99-LLL · e.g. T-28-YJG Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 12 agricultural tractor 210×143 mm (2021 → today) Format T-99-LLL · e.g. T-15-LNF Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 11 agricultural (2021 → today) Format LLL-99-L Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 11 agricultural 340×210 mm (2021 → today) Format LLL-99-L Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 11 agricultural 210×143 mm (2021 → today) Format LLL-99-L Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 6 car taxi (2000 → today) Format 99-LL-LL · e.g. 17-PH-KT Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 4 trailer (1988 → today) Format WL-99-LL · e.g. WX-50-XW Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 4 trailer 340×210 mm (1988 → today) Format WL-99-LL · e.g. WV-94-XH Format, years and sources
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Sidecode 4 semitrailer (1988 → today) Format OL-99-LL · e.g. ON-46-FV Format, years and sources
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Historic dark blue (1978 → today) Format LL-99-99 · e.g. GX-70-88 Format, years and sources
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Historic dark blue 275×195 mm (1978 → today) Format LL-99-99 · e.g. NJ-94-26 Format, years and sources
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Historic dark blue 200×145 mm (1978 → today) Format LL-99-99 · e.g. BV-66-52 Format, years and sources
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Historic dark blue 310×110 mm (1978 → today) Format LL-99-99 · e.g. VJ-79-97 Format, years and sources
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Historic dark blue sidecode 2 (1978 → today) Format 99-99-LL · e.g. 91-78-RH Format, years and sources
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Historic dark blue sidecode 3 (1978 → today) Format 99-LL-99 · e.g. 95-DW-99 Format, years and sources
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Historic dark blue agricultural (1978 → today) Format LLL-99-L · e.g. EOG-15-W Format, years and sources
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Export (1951 → today) Format LLL-99-L · e.g. NTD-10-C Format, years and sources
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Export 340×210 mm (1951 → today) Format LLL-99-L · e.g. RAC-98-Q Format, years and sources
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Export 210×143 mm (1951 → today) Format LLL-99-L · e.g. JPT-40-S Format, years and sources
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Export 100×175 mm (1951 → today) Format LLL-99-L · e.g. ULH-38-B Format, years and sources
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Export 145×125 mm (1951 → today) Format LLL-99-L · e.g. XYQ-66-V Format, years and sources
How the generator works
- Choose a country or state, then the plate: the standard plate first, then motorcycle, personalized, historic and the rest, each with the years it was issued.
- Where a plate was issued in several looks (front and rear colours, an older base), choose the design.
- Type a registration, a name or any text. It is drawn on the plate as you type, in the plate's own lettering, and shrunk to fit when it is long (24 characters at most). The generator also says whether it fits that plate's real format, the one the issuing authority publishes; tick "Only real formats" to draw real registrations only and see which plates a registration fits. Characters the plate's lettering does not have, like emoji, are left out, and the generator names them.
- Download the plate as SVG (a vector for print and design tools) or PNG (2400 pixels wide), copy a link, or copy the code to embed it on a web page.
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