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Thailand license plate: International English

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

Thailand license plate, International English (documented since 2011), sample HA-753
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999, for example HA-753 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
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The Latin letters are the same registration in travel clothes: a DLT transliteration of the vehicle's Thai series letters, above the word THAILAND. Fit it for Laos or Yunnan; keep it on at home and the plate itself becomes a 2,000-baht offence.

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
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, truck, van, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
The transliteration table that maps Thai consonants to Latin codes is the key missing artefact for a parse API and is the top follow-up for this jurisdiction.
About the format
The DLT press release gives exactly two specimens and no grammar: "HA - 753 THAILAND" and "3K-201 THAILAND".

Legal basis and sources

  1. DLT press release no. 75 of 18 March 2011, over the name of the Director-General นายเฉลิมไท ญาณภิรัต: the English-language plate is issued for vehicles permitted to be used temporarily in Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia,... https://web.archive.org/web/20141016101731/http://www.dlt.go.th/th/attachments/plan48-51/2532_75-03-54.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is th-international-english. 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-international-english")'
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