List of International Vehicle Registration Codes - Codes No Longer in Use

Codes No Longer in Use

Code Country Until After Notes
ADN Aden 1980 Y From 1938. a.k.a. South Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1967)
BA Myanmar 1956 BUR From 1937.
BP Bechuanaland Protectorate 1966 Now Botswana
CS Czechoslovakia 1992 CZ / SK Split into Czech Republic and Slovakia.
DA Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk) 1939 D (1939–1945)
PL (since 1945)		 Danzig (German for Gdańsk)
DDR German Democratic Republic 1990 D Deutsche Demokratische Republik
EW Estonia 1993 EST Eesti Vabariik (Estonian)
FR Faroe Islands 1996 FO Føroyar (Faroese)
GRO Greenland KN Grønland (Danish language) / Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenlandic language)
HV Haute Volta, now Burkina Faso 1984 BF Upper Volta
LR Latvia 1927–1940 SU, LV Latvijas Republika (Latvian)
R Romania 1981 RO
RNY Rhodesia-Nyasaland Fed. 1953–1963 NP, NR, SR Now Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe
ROU Uruguay 1979–2012 UY República Oriental del Uruguay (Spanish)
RSR Southern Rhodesia 1965–1979 SR Now Zimbabwe
RT Togo 1973 TG République togolaise (French). Formerly French Togoland − 1960
SA Saarland 1956 D also D between 1935 and 1945; SA is now Saudi Arabia
SB Serbia 1919 SHS Serbia became part of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
SCG Serbia and Montenegro 2006 MNE, SRB From Serbian name "Srbija i Crna Gora". Now Montenegro, Serbia
SF Finland 1993 FIN SF from "Suomi – Finland" (the names of the country in its official languages, Finnish and Swedish)
SHS Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 1929 Y Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca – Serbo-Croatian. Kingdom changed its name to Yugoslavia
SU Soviet Union 1991 EST, LT, LV, BY, MD, UA, TJ, TUR, GE, KZ, UZ, KS, AZ, AM, RUS
SWA South West Africa 1990 now Namibia
TS Free Territory of Trieste 1947–1954 I, YU, SLO
Y Yugoslavia 1953 YU Yemen started using Y afterwards
YU Yugoslavia 2003 BIH, HR, KS, MK, MNE, SRB, SLO Now Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia

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