Thailand license plate: Consular
Issued today Documented since 2011. Consular plates for car and motorcycle, issued by กรมการขนส่งทางบก (Department of Land Transport, DLT), Ministry of Transport. One of 21 Thailand license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9999, for example4321(9 any digit)The letters track the key word of each category: ก for the consular corps (กงสุล), พ for an embassy's special agencies (พิเศษ), อ for international organisations (องค์การ). The numerals beneath code the sending country, a list the DLT has never published.
- ก
- คณะผู้แทนทางกงสุล (consular corps)
- พ
- หน่วยงานพิเศษของสถานทูต (special agency of an embassy)
- อ
- องค์การระหว่างประเทศหรือทบวงการชำนัญพิเศษแห่งสหประชาชาติ (international organisation or UN specialised agency)
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 2011; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Consular: consular corps where distinct from diplomatic. Issued for car and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#FFFFFFBackground#4FA8DC - Size
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387 × 110 mm · every country's size
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Consular 270×90 mm
consular · 270 × 90 mm
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- About this plate
- EMBASSY SPECIAL AGENCIES (พ), CONSULAR CORPS (ก) and INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS / UN SPECIALISED AGENCIES (อ), white characters on a retroreflective LIGHT BLUE ground, with a grey sub-variant for honorary consuls.
Legal basis and sources
- ข้อ ๓ (๑) (ค) ๓) ข)-ง) the letters พ ก อ; ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ซ) 'ให้พื้นแผ่นป้ายใช้สีฟ้าสะท้อนแสง โดยให้ตัวอักษร ตัวเลข และขีดใช้สีขาว' with the honorary-consul grey proviso https://web.archive.org/web/20171113165614/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2554/A/045/6.PDF
This plate in your app
The series id is th-consular-2011. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Thailand's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/th \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "th-consular-2011")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-consular-2011.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-consular-2011/template.svg