In Malaysia, the Malaysian Road
Transport Department(JPJ) regulates the issuing of vehicle registration
plates. While many of us know the prefixes for our own state but not
many people can readily identify the whole list of prefixes available in
Malaysia when we consider the other states, as well as East Malaysia,
military, taxi, airport limousines and royalty prefixes
For the registration plates of
Peninsular Malaysia, the algorithm started with a state prefix and a
number sequence (from 1 to 9999).
However, due to their similarities with
the numbers 1 and 0, the letters I and O are excluded from the
alphabetical sequences for Malaysian vehicle plates. Furthermore, there
will be no leading zeroes in the number sequence.
Following are the prefixes for vehicle plates of different states, districts and categories:
Peninsular Malaysia
A – Perak
B – Selangor
C – Pahang
D – Kelantan
J – Johor
K – Kedah
M – Melaka
N – Negeri Sembilan
P – Penang
R – Perlis
T – Terengganu
W – Kuala Lumpur
Putrajaya – Putrajaya
KV – Pulau Langkawi
Z – Army
Sabah
SA, SAA-SAB – West Coast
SB – Beaufort
SD – Lahad Datu
SK – Sabah Government
SL – Labuan
SS – Sandakan
ST – Tawau
SU – Keningau
Sarawak
Meanwhile, the current alphabets for
most Sarawak’s districts start with the constant Q prefix, followed by
the division prefix and the number sequence.
QA and QK: Kuching
QB: Sri Aman
QC: Kota Samarahan
QL: Limbang
QM: Miri
QP: Kapit
QR: Sarikei
QS: Sibu
QT: Bintulu
QSG: Government of Sarawak
Taxi
Taxi license plates follow a H prefix in
Malaysia which means ‘hire’ and have inverted colors with black letters
and white background for distinction purposes.
HA – Perak
HB – Selangor
HC – Pahang
HE – Sabah
HJ – Johor
HK – Kedah
HL – Labuan
HM – Melaka
HN – Negeri Sembilan
HP – Penang
HQ – Sarawak
HR – Perlis
HS – Sabah
HT – Terengganu
HW – Kuala Lumpur
Following the opening of the Kuala
Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), LIMO****W or LIMO***B were
introduced for KLIA limousines. For example, LIMO 1130 W.
Military
In Malaysia, license plates numbers with
the Z prefix are reserved for military. Z is the constant prefix for
all Malaysian Armed Forces vehicles while B is the branch prefix. For
example D is for Malaysian Army and U is for royal Malaysian Air Force.
ZA to ZD – The Malaysian Army
ZL – Royal Malaysian Navy
ZU – Royal Malaysian Air Force
ZZ – MINDEF
JMF – The Royal Johor Military Force
Royal Vehicle
The Sultans of Malaysia, Rulers of
States and their immediate royalties use unique registration plates.
Most of these official license plates have a yellow background and bear
the royal crest of the owner.
Special Vanity Plates
Mother
of local personality, Shaheizy Sam, 33, received a police summon last
year for his unique car plate number MCM 1774 which almost looks like
the word MOMMY
Personalized vanity number plates
require official approval so there are limited number of special vanity
plates available by the Malaysian Road Transport Department at a higher
cost. For example, the prefix such as Proton for Proton cars and SUKOM
for 1998 Commonwealth Games.
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