Monaco license plate: Diplomatic K

Issued today Documented since 1978. Diplomatic plates for car and van, issued by Service des Titres de Circulation, Principauté de Monaco. One of 17 Monaco license plates.

Monaco license plate, Diplomatic K (documented since 1978), sample 72K16

Format, years and the law

Format
99K99, for example 72K16 (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 1978; 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 #5B9BD5 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL STAFF of missions, and staff of international organisations.
Format notes
Art. 6: "un numéro d'identification identique à celui attribué aux membres du corps diplomatique suivi de la lettre 'K' et de deux chiffres." THE LEADING NUMBER IS SHARED WITH THE MISSION'S CD PLATE, so a K plate and a CD plate with the same leading identifier belong to the same mission. That is a genuine decode relationship, and it is the only one in the Monegasque system.

Legal basis and sources

  1. AM 78-5 art. 6, personnel administratif et technique https://legimonaco.mc/tnc/arrete-ministeriel/1978/01-09-78-5/

This plate in your app

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

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