# Denmark license plate: Standard

> The Denmark standard license plate: format LL 99 999, for example OJ 78 623, 1976 to today, car, cited to Skatteforvaltningen (Motorstyrelsen).

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Part of [Denmark license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/denmark) (21 registration series).

![Denmark license plate, Standard (1976 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/dk/dk-standard-1976/denmark-license-plate-standard.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL 99 999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 1976 → today |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car |
| Plate size | 504 × 120 mm |
| Other sizes | 240 × 165 mm: 'kvadratisk' — the square rear plate; SKAT stocks it as its own type ('Personbiler - Hvid kvadratisk', 120x504/165x240, i.e. a 504x120 front plate with a 240x165 rear); 240 × 165 mm: 'amerikaner' — SKAT type 76/77 'Personbiler - Hvid amerikaner', for US-market mountings; 504 × 120 mm: '3. nummerplade (cykelplade)' — the extra rear plate required by § 69, stk. 4 where load or a cycle carrier covers the rear plate. Carries the vehicle's own number; SKAT colour cell 'hvid/rød' |
| Colours | background hvid #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left; border rød #C8102E |
| 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 | `dk-standard-1976` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/denmark/standard-1976) |

Sources:

- [§ 68, stk. 2 (two Latin letters + one to five Arabic numerals); § 69, stk. 1 (two plates); § 70 (mounting); § 72, stk. 4, nr. 4 and § 70, stk. 3 and § 75, stk.](https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/663/dan/xml)
- [SKAT 'Liste over alle pladetyper i Danmark pr.](https://web.archive.org/web/20170917063422/https://www.skat.dk/getFiles.aspx?Id=e6c2c7e8-e7a7-4b5e-b15e-4b67e27d3f66&name=planche_nummerplader_2012.pdf)
- [web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20110716080639/http://www.skat.dk/SKAT.aspx?oId=1826647)
- [da.wikipedia.org](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nummerplade)

## About this plate

THE DANISH STANDARD PLATE. Two things about it are unusual and both are sourced. First, the SIZE: 504 x 120 mm, not the 520 x 110 mm that the rest of Europe uses and that both Wikipedia infoboxes assert, SKAT's own catalogue says "120x504" in every white-plate row, and the archived skat.dk series page says "120 x 504" for Serie 61. The 520 x 110 figure is corrected away here. Second, the EU BAND IS OPTIONAL and has been since it appeared: § 68, stk. 5 gives the choice to whoever registers the vehicle, so a bandless Danish plate may be brand new. Colour is white ground / black characters / red border throughout; the red border is what makes the plate recognisable and it appears in no instrument.

## About its years

1976 is 1 APRIL 1976, and it is dated by the instrument in force today rather than by an enthusiast page: BEK 663/2025 § 72, stk. 4, nr. 4 refuses a replacement plate where the number does not follow "de retningslinjer for udformning af registreringsnumre, der har været gældende siden den 1. april 1976"; § 70, stk. 3 exempts "nummerplader fra før den 1. april 1976" from the two-screw rule; § 75, stk. 1 opens the historic plate to vehicles "registreret første gang før den 1. april 1976".

## Region code notes

NOT geography, Denmark encodes VEHICLE KIND in the digit block and has encoded no region since the single-letter county plates ended. The decode file is named for what it actually decodes.

## How numbers are issued

NO AGE SIGNAL, NO GEOGRAPHY. The two letters are a serial, not a region: the pre-1958 single letter was the county marker and it is long gone. 6), and allocation restarted from AA when the digital register came in, so a letter pair dates nothing.

## Separators

The printed gaps are gaps, not glyphs: no Danish instrument prescribes a separator character.

## Other standard plates here

- [Van parrot](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/denmark/van-parrot-2009) (2009 to today)
- [Blokvogn](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/denmark/blokvogn) (2008 to today)
- [Van commercial yellow](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/denmark/van-commercial-yellow) (1976 to today)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/dk/dk-standard-1976.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/denmark?series=dk-standard-1976
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/dk` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "dk-standard-1976"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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