International Licence Plate Code
See also: List of international vehicle registration codesAlthough one would presume that countries take on the shortest code possible (by rule the same as their ISO 3166-1 alpha-2), that is not the case. Thus, the "attractive" SR and SB are available for Serbia, as Suriname uses SME, while the Solomon Islands are identified by SLB.
Ironically, SRB had been advertised by the press as the likely solution — even though the Kingdom of Serbia sed SB from 1911 to 1919, when it was replaced by SHS, followed by Y, YU and SCG. Abbreviation S was taken by Sweden the same year, making it unavailable for Serbia, despite being one of first 17 countries in the world to be assigned this code.
Despite that SB and SR are available for this purpose, official government bodies and the media are still maintaining the claim that the international license plate code for Serbia should (and could only) be its ISO-3166-1 alpha-3 code, SRB.
Read more about this topic: Country Codes Of Serbia
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