Croatian vehicle registration plates

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Standard Croatian license plate used on both private and commercial vehicles. ZG stands for Zagreb.
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Standard Croatian license plate used on both private and commercial vehicles. ZG stands for Zagreb.
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Special license plate used on vehicles owned by Croatian military. HV stands for Hrvatska vojska.

The standard license plates in Croatia consist of a two-letter city code which is separated by Coat of Arms of Croatia from three or four numbers and one or two letters.

There is also a possibility of having a customized plate for a fee. One type of customized plate looks exactly like the standard ones, with the exception that the combination of numbers and letters is personally chosen by the vehicle's owner. The other kind of customized plates can consist of a word with from four to seven letters or a combination of the word with four or five letters and one or two numbers. However, these plates are still quite rare in Croatia, mostly because they can only be used for five years after the first registration and they also require a fee of 8,000 kuna.

There are also some special plates. While the numbers and letters on standard license plates are colored black, on temporary plates they are green. On the plates used on bigger trucks and other vehicles that can be oversized for some of the smaller roads, the numbers and letters are red. The police vehicles are equipped with the plates consisting of six numbers divided in two groups and separated by the Coat of Arms of Croatia. While the background on all of these plates is colored white, on those used on military vehicles it is yellow. However, the system of dividing numbers and letters is the same as on the standard plates, but instead of a city code there are letters HV for Hrvatska vojska (Croatian military). At the same time, specialized military vehicles have the letters VP for vojna policija (military police) as the final two letters.

As opposed to all above mentioned plates that are made of metal, the dealer's test plates are made of paper and usually stuck in the right corner of a front windshield and rear window. These plates consist of a city code separated by the coat of arms from five numbers divided in two groups and they can be used for only five days after the purchase of a vehicle.

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