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Iceland license plate: Diplomatic

Issued today Documented since 2003. Diplomatic plates for car and van, issued by Samgöngustofa (Icelandic Transport Authority). One of 11 Iceland license plates.

Iceland license plate, Diplomatic (documented since 2003), sample CD-O96
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Format, years and the law

Format
CD-L99, for example CD-O96 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented since 2003; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #006A4E
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE GREEN DIPLOMATIC PLATE, and the ONLY current Icelandic plate with any decodable content, everything else is random by regulation.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 25. gr.: green ground with white characters and white border for diplomatic plates. PRIMARY for the design. https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/751-2003
  2. 2026-06-08): the CD + mission-letter + two-digit format, the sequential allocation within each country, the absence of the Icelandic emblem, and the mission-letter table above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Iceland

This plate in your app

The series id is is-diplomatic-2003. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Iceland's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/is \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "is-diplomatic-2003")'
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