# Brazil license plate: Mercosur state arms

> The Brazil mercosur state arms license plate: format LLL9L99, for example RIO3B77, 2018 to 2018, car, van, truck, and bus.

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Part of [Brazil license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/brazil) (11 registration series).

![Brazil license plate, Mercosur state arms (2018 to 2018)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/br/br-mercosul-uf-brasao-2018/brazil-license-plate-mercosur-state-arms.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LLL9L99` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2018–2018 |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Plate size | 400 × 130 mm |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #0033A0 on the top |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `br-mercosul-uf-brasao-2018` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/brazil/mercosul-uf-brasao-2018) |

Issued only between March and November 2018, mostly in Rio de Janeiro — the only Brazilian plate since 1990 to show geography again: a state flag, a coat of arms, and the municipality's name at the right edge.

The letters were already meaningless — the geography moved into print: state flag, coat of arms and the municipality's name at the plate's edge, for just nine months of 2018. It is the last Brazilian plate that says where it is from.

Sources:

- [gov.br](https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/resolucao7292018_nova.pdf)
- [Res. CONTRAN 748/2018 of 30-11-2018 art. 4, verbatim: 'Revogar os itens 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.8 e 1.8.1 do Anexo I da Resolução CONTRAN nº 729, de 6 de março de 2018.' — the instrument that closes this series' period](https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/resolucao7482018.pdf)
- [art. 2, the per-state December 2018 cronograma these plates were issued across, Rio de Janeiro first](https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/resolucao7482018.pdf)

## About this plate

THE NINE-MONTH PLATE. Between Res. CONTRAN 729/2018 (6 March 2018) and Res. CONTRAN 748/2018 (30 November 2018) the Brazilian Mercosul plate carried, at its right edge below the blue band, the flag of the state of registration, a coat of arms, and beneath the arms the NAME OF THE MUNICIPALITY of registration. Rio de Janeiro, the first state to issue, from September 2018, issued these, and so did the states that started before the 748/2018 timetable ran out. Res. 748/2018 art. 4 revoked all four Anexo I items in a single line and Brazilian plates have shown no geography at all since.

## Region code notes

THE ONLY BRAZILIAN PLATE SINCE 2018 THAT DECODES GEOGRAPHICALLY, and it does so by printing the answer rather than by encoding it: the state flag identified the Unidade da Federação and the legend under the arms named the municipality of registration in words. There is no code table to ship.

## Other standard plates here

- [Mercosur converted](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/brazil/mercosul-converted-2018) (2018 to today)
- [Mercosur standard](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/brazil/mercosul-standard-2018) (2018 to today)
- [PNU standard](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/brazil/pnu-standard-1990) (1990 to 2020)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/br/br-mercosul-uf-brasao-2018.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/brazil?series=br-mercosul-uf-brasao-2018
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/br` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "br-mercosul-uf-brasao-2018"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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