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Thailand license plate: Diplomatic

Issued today Documented since 2011. Diplomatic plates for car and motorcycle, issued by กรมการขนส่งทางบก (Department of Land Transport, DLT), Ministry of Transport. One of 21 Thailand license plates.

Thailand license plate, Diplomatic (documented since 2011), sample 4321
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Format, years and the law

Format
9999, for example 4321 (9 any digit)

ท tracks ทูต, "diplomat", and the white ground alone separates it from the light-blue consular fleet. The numerals code the sending country, a list never published. Bangkok taxis also famously run under ท; layout and colour, not the letter, tell them apart.

ท
คณะผู้แทนทางการทูต (diplomatic corps)

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
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
387 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Thailand license plate, Diplomatic 270×90 mm (documented since 2011)

    Diplomatic 270×90 mm

    diplomatic · 270 × 90 mm

About this plate
DIPLOMATIC CORPS (คณะผู้แทนทางการทูต), letter ท, black on retroreflective WHITE.
About the format
Three sections. LEFT, two lines: line 1 the Thai letter ท; line 2 the Arabic country/organisation code. MIDDLE: a longitudinal dash 1.1 cm x 4 cm with the ขส roundel above it. RIGHT: the registration number in Arabic numerals, 7.2 cm high, running 1 to 9999. The pattern is the registration number.

Legal basis and sources

  1. ข้อ ๓ (๑) (ค) ๑)-๓) 11 x 38.7 cm, three sections, the bar, numbers 1-9999, and the four corps letters; ข้อ ๓ (๑) (ง) the 9 x 27 cm motorcycle variant; ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ช)... 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-diplomatic-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-diplomatic-2011")'
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