# Thailand license plate: Private car

> The Thailand private car license plate: format 9999, for example กข 1234, documented since 2011, car. What each character means, its sizes and sources.

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Part of [Thailand license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand) (21 registration series).

![Thailand license plate, Private car (documented since 2011)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-private-car-2011/thailand-license-plate-private-car.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `9999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | ~2011 → today (documented from 2011; the format is likely older) |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car |
| Plate size | 340 × 150 mm |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000 |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `th-private-car-2011` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/private-car-2011) |

The ordinary Thai car plate: two category letters and up to four digits in black, over the vehicle's province spelled out in full underneath — retroreflective white, embossed edge to edge.

The two letters name the issue series — the first runs in blocks tied to the vehicle class — and Thais recite them by their letter names: a กข plate reads aloud as "chicken, egg". The bottom line spells the registering province out in full; no code table needed.

| Code | Stands for | English |
|---|---|---|
| `ขส` | กรมการขนส่งทางบก | Department of Land Transport — its abbreviation, embossed in a circle at lower right |

Sources:

- [ข้อ ๓ (๑) (ก) ๑)-๕) size 15 x 34 cm, ขส roundel lower right, two-line layout, leading numeral, character minima; ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ค) ๑) 'รถยนต์นั่งส่วนบุคคลไม่เกินเจ็ดคนใช้สีดำ' on a retroreflective white ground; ข้อ ๕ front and rear](https://web.archive.org/web/20171113165614/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2554/A/045/6.PDF)

## What each position encodes

- category_letter_1: delegated
- category_letter_2: delegated
- province: the name of Bangkok or of the province of registration, spelled out; the word เบตง where the vehicle is registered at Betong District, Yala Province

## About this plate

What IS new in 2011 is the size (the 2547 sizes are in the revoked instrument, not secured here) and the leading-numeral exhaustion rule the หมายเหตุ explains. Thai press dates the modern arrangement to 1997 and Bangkok's first leading-numeral series to 2012; neither was pinned to an instrument and neither is asserted.

## How numbers are issued

A letter pair runs 1..9999 and the registrar then moves to the next pair the Director-General has opened; when the pairs are exhausted the leading numeral 1-9 is prefixed and the pairs restart. The pair-opening ORDER is not published in any instrument secured here, so no age inference is offered, this is the single biggest gap for a parse API.

## About the format

The pattern is the REGISTRATION NUMBER ONLY. The printed mark is two lines: line 1 = [optional leading numeral 1-9] + category letter 1 + category letter 2 + the registration number of not more than four digits; line 2 = the province name in Thai.

## Other standard plates here

- [LTA private white](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/lta-private-white-2011) (documented since 2011)
- [LTA public yellow](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/lta-public-yellow-2011) (documented since 2011)
- [Private car 7+ seats](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/private-car-over7-2011) (documented since 2011)
- [Private pickup](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/private-pickup-2011) (documented since 2011)
- [Private three-wheeler](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/private-threewheeler-2011) (documented since 2011)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-private-car-2011.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/thailand?series=th-private-car-2011
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/th` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "th-private-car-2011"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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