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Egypt license plate: Standard

Issued today 2008 to today. Standard plates for car and van, issued by الإدارة العامة للمرور. One of 11 Egypt license plates.

Egypt license plate, Standard (2008 to today), sample 8840 GSI
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Format, years and the law

Format
9999 LLL, for example 8840 GSI (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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
2008 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car and van.
About this plate
The ordinary Egyptian mark. Issuance is NATIONAL, administered by governorate traffic offices, this is expressly NOT the UAE emirate-level model: one national law, one national authority, and art. 12 makes the registration valid countrywide.
About its years
2008 = Law 121/2008, gazetted 9 June 2008, which replaced art. 13 and enabled the redesign. AN ENABLING-INSTRUMENT DATE, NOT A FIRST-ISSUE DATE, and the two are deliberately kept apart. None of those is instrument-grade and none is recorded as the period start.
How the region is encoded
The encoding is partial (Cairo and Giza are unrestricted), press-sourced, and its allocating instrument was never found. V5.
How numbers are issued
Not sourced. The General Traffic Department described the three letters in 2009 as a code, one for the owner's governorate of residence, one for the traffic unit, one for the registration, but no allocating rule or sequence was published.

Legal basis and sources

  1. manshurat.org https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/015473.pdf
  2. manshurat.org https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86%20%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%85%2066%20%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%...
  3. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20251010130322/https://traffic.moi.gov.eg/Arabic/OurServices/InfoServices/InteriorMiniste...
  4. egyptmint.gov.eg http://www.egyptmint.gov.eg/Home/Plates
  5. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Egypt
  6. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20181001220455/http://www.masrawy.com/Autos/autos_news/details/2014/12/3/401710/

Before and after

Egypt license plate, Legacy (documented 2000 to 2008) It replaced Legacy documented 2000 to 2008

This plate in your app

The series id is eg-standard-2008. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Egypt's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/eg \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "eg-standard-2008")'
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