China license plate: HK/Macau cross-border
Issued today Documented since 2007. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by 公安部交通管理局 (Traffic Management Bureau, Ministry of Public Security). One of 22 China license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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Z9999, for example粤Z·H714港(9 any digit)Every element is fixed meaning: 粤 is Guangdong, Z is the office code the provincial vehicle office reserves for cross-boundary traffic, and the closing character names the side, 港 for a Hong Kong vehicle, 澳 for Macau. The most identifiable Chinese plate of all.
- 粤
- 广东省 (Guangdong Province)
- Z
- 港澳入出境车 (Hong Kong / Macau cross-boundary office code)
- 港
- 香港 (Hong Kong vehicle)
- 澳
- 澳门 (Macau vehicle)
The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2007; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#FFFFFFBackground#000000 - Size
- 440 × 140 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- Mainland-registered vehicles crossing the OTHER way are outside GA 36 entirely.
Legal basis and sources
- web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20150701102419/http://www.hngy.gov.cn/sitepublish/site1/wsbs/lyfwzl/jtfw/jdc/jdcfw/conten...
This plate in your app
The series id is cn-hkmacau-crossborder-2007. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of China's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cn \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "cn-hkmacau-crossborder-2007")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-hkmacau-crossborder-2007.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-hkmacau-crossborder-2007/template.svg
