u/Marijanovic

Primorsky Krai is 744km away from home, meanwhile United States is 11165km, Kunitachi is 1679km, Nerima is 1690km and Kitakyushu is 674km. Sources: Platesmania, Facebook and Threads.

1 - Virginia, United States and Moscow Oblast [190], Russia
2 - Florida, United States remade plate
3 - Florida, United States remade plate
4 - Massachusetts, United States remade plate
5 - Moscow [77], Russia temporary plate
6 - Nizhny Novgorod Oblast [52], Russia export plate
7 - Alexandria Governorate, Egypt
8 - Yokohama [横浜], Japan
9 - Segeberg [SE], Germany remade plate
10 - Bratislava [BA], Slovakia dealer plate
11 - Tvrdošín [TS], Slovakia 1st series plate (1997-2023) pre-2004 design
12 - Erbil Governorate [22], Kurdistan
13 - Belgrade [BG], Order of Malta [133], Serbia diplomatic plate
14 - Bergen [O], Norway 2nd series plate (1913-71)
15 - Rijeka [RI], Croatia
16 - Zadar [ZD], Croatia
17 - Split [ST], Croatia
18 - Zagreb [ZG], Croatia
19 - Rijeka [RI], Croatia remade plate
20 - Qatar [091], Croatia diplomatic plate
Source: Platesmania.

1 - Sweden military plate
2 - Germany export plate [QQ] for US Forces [USA]
3 - Netherlands export plate
4-5 - Slovakia [10-22], Israel diplomatic plate [CD]
6 - Kosovo [KS] 1st series plate
7 - South Korea (ROK)
8 - Wisconsin, United States US Marine Corps personalized plate
9 - New York, United States commercial personalized plate
10 - Sulaymaniyah Governorate [21], Kurdistan
11 - Slobozia [C], Transnistria
12 - Slovakia [149], Moscow [77], Russia diplomatic plate [D]
13 - Tver Oblast [69], Russia remade plate
14 - Lipetsk Oblast [48], Russia remade plate
15-16 Moscow [99, 799], Russia remade plates
17 - Kyiv [KA], Ukraine remade plate
18 - Kyiv [11], Ukraine remade personalized plate
19 - Dubai, Emirates remade plate
20 - Alpes-Maritimes [06], France remade temporary plate [WW]
Source: Platesmania.

1-2 - Gibraltar [GBZ] remade plate
3 - Dubai, Emirates
4 - San Marino (RSM)
5 - California, United States
6 - New York, United States
7 - Tomsk Oblast [70], Russia
8-9 - St. Petersburg [98], Russia
10-11 - Zürich [ZH], Switzerland export plate [Z]
12 - Prizren [04], Kosovo
13-14 - Dublin [D], Ireland
15 - Council of Europe [600], France diplomatic plate [CD]
16 - France historical vehicle plate
17 - Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) 3rd series plate (1998-present) pre-2009 design
18-19 - Offenbach [OF], Germany 3rd series plate (1956-present) pre-1994/2000 design

Source: Instagram and Platesmania.

8218km away from home. Source: Reddit.

Netherlands is 10088km away from home, meanwhile San Marino is 10302km, Hong Kong is 2188km, Gütersloh is 9840km, Munich is 10016km, Augsburg is 9998km and Chiba is 2133km. Source: Platesmania.

France is 1359km away from home, meanwhile Karlovy Vary is 816km, Estonia is 2147km, Spain is 2037km, Sweden is 2108km, Denmark is 1498km and Ruma is 500km.

Very pleased to get the pink plate the very year it was introduced in.

Gauteng is 11661km away from home, meanwhile Moscow is 12054km (new record for Peru), El Salvador is 2147km and Belgium is 9951km. Source: Google Maps.

Ofc a lot more foreign plates, but nothing interesting, just regular plates from Europe. Also a light blue Bentley with Dubai, UAE plates heading towards Slovenia/Trieste direction, I've just missed it as it passed on the highway while I was on the off ramp.

Dubai is 5165km away from home, meanwhile Andorra is 1737km. Source: Instagram - carspottingcroatia.

New Zealand is 18366km away from home, meanwhile Queensland is 15871km, California is 9698km, Florida is 8277km, Illinois is 7907km, Texas is 9182km, Nevada is 9568km, Andorra is 1418km, Monaco is 773km, Finland is 2236km, Abu Dhabi is 4254km and Saudi Arabia (which is in Split insted of Rijeka like others) is 3454km. Source: CarSpottingCroatia and Kanal RI.

Comment on this post a request to have a license plate as a user flair, a.k.a. plate flair.

If a requested license plate has regional indicators it'll default to the capital of the country if not requested otherwise.
If the country is issuing different plates for front and rear, the rear plate will be issued by default if not requested otherwise.

Plate numbers are sequential for each country, e.g. if the request is just "Switzerland" and the plate assigned is BE·67 that means it's a 67th Swiss plate on the subreddit. Plate numbers can also be requested by users but it must follow respective country's standards and formats for which plate the user wants.

Stickers, date and year indicators on the plates (that aren't part of the plate number) cannot be personalized, the date and year indicate when the plate flair was created and it cannot be changed.

Along with regular plates it is allowed to request older plate series and special plates of any country on planet Earth.

There are temporary plates in the "edit flair" section of the sub that can be assigned by users to themselves for available countries and they can use them until they learn about this post or if they want a temporary plate on purpose, more countries will be added over time. For countries that don't have a specific temporary plate series, whatever special plate series in that country that is used instead for temporary purposes will be available. Numbers on temporary plates will be updated at least once every 2 or 3 days, this means that it is possible to temporarily see two users with plates that have the same number. If users change the flairs themselves after the update there is a high chance the previous temporary plate will be reassigned in the next update, undoing the change, or the plate flair will be unassigned from the user. Users which haven't accumulated more than 0 karma in the subreddit will have their temporary plate flair unassigned at the update. Temporary plates will be unavailable while an update is pending.

Users with 0 karma which requested a flair and then haven't posted or commented in the following month will get their flair deleted.

It may take some time to make requested plates which are usually made at the same time when temporary plates are updated. It may take even few days, so be patient (the longest time someone had to wait was 12 days, but usually it's between 1 to 3 days).

As of Plate Flairs 2nd anniversary (23/6/2026) in total 843 plates were assigned.

All plates are remade, WRC cars don't use officially issued plates on them due to obvious reasons.

Finland is 13913km away from home, meanwhile Beverley is 12237km, Belgium is 12317km and Paraguay is 2497km. Sources: WRC, elportadelrally and skoda-motorsport

New records for Finland and Belgium!

1 - Vatican [CV - Città del Vaticano]
2 - Åland Islands (AX)
3 - Madeira [MA] 2nd (1962-present) series plate pre-1992 design and format
4 - Isle of Man [GBM]
5 - Malta [M]
6 - Bishkek [01], Kyrgyzstan
7-8 - Iceland personalized and commercial vehicle plate
9-10 - Dubai, Emirates
11 - Ontario, Canada
12-13 - New York, United States
14 - Belgrade [BG], European Union [101], Serbia diplomatic plate
15 - Zaragoza [Z], Spain 2nd (1971-2000) series plate
16 - Georgia [GE]
17 - Finland [FIN]

Source: Platesmania and Autogespot.

All distances are in kilometers.

If the license plate of a country or state doesn't have a regional indicator for a city or subdivision where it was issued the distance is calculated from a capital city of that country or state or subdivision. Distances are calculated as a shortest driving route unless it is impossible to drive from the location from where the plate is from to the location where it was spotted or it's highly unlikely that the vehicle actually drove, instead the air distance is calculated.

The subreddit's database under Article 4 has two country lists, one for location where the plates can be spotted and one for location from where the plates are from. E.g. when it comes to plate spotting England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are all separated and have their own records, but for license plates that are issued in those countries all are considered to be from one country know as United Kingdom. This means that there are less countries which issue license plates than number of countries in which plates can be spotted. Each country has an ISO alpha-2/unicode (flag emoji) and alpha-3 code. For second country list all countries have VRI codes (including defacto VRI codes), records from all continents will be added to this country list eventually (for now there is only Europe).

It goes without saying but the word "country" doesn't refer only to sovereign states, there are various country types such as: quasi state, autonomous republic or region, overseas territory, Antarctic claim, etc.

The lists can be updated if there are any new or missed records for a country.

For a record to count the image of a license plate must be posted on this subreddit either as a self spot or internet spot. The post must have a name of the country from where the plate is from and a name of the country where the plate was spotted otherwise the post is invalid and not recognized by the Reddit's search system for this subreddit, due to this reason such posts also get removed. Putting abbreviation or misspelling a country name in the tittle also invalidates the post.

All records can be found by inputting names of countries that are on the list into the search system, e.g. searching for "Singapore Ecuador" or "Ecuador Singapore" and then sorting by new, top or hot will show the current world record (as of June 2026).

Since January 2026 Southern Transitional Council [YD|YMD] is considered a historical country and its record is 6599km for the greatest distance at which a foreign plate was spotted within that country.

1 - Denmark 4th series plate (1976-present)
2 - Estonia [EST] short plate
3-4 - Finland [FIN] historical vehicle and regular plates
5 - Moss [AY], Norway commercial vehicle plate
6 - Chuvash Republic — Chuvashia [21]
7 - Kaliningrad Oblast [39], Russia
8 - Andorra [AND]
9 - Monaco [MC]
10-11 - Liechtenstein [FL]
12-13 - Luxembourg [L]
14 - Dubai, Emirates export plate
15 - Ljubljana [LJ], Slovenia export plate
16-18 - Milan [MI] and Verona [VR], Italy 4th series plate (1927-94) the 1927-85 design and 1985-94 design and 5th series plate (1994-present) 1994-99 design
19-20 - Vienna [W] Austria 6th series plate (1990-present) pre-2002 design and diplomatic plate [5 - United States]

Source: Platesmania and Autogespot.

Charente is 1485km away from big Pula, meanwhile Bas-Rhin is 998km, Florence is 526km, Minsk is 1791km and Sweden is 2197km. Source: Platesmania and Autogespot.

11824km away from home. Source: Platesmania.

8857km away from home. Source: Platesmania.

13335km away from home, this is a new record for Colombia moving Colombia from 11th place in South America to 6th. Source: Instagram.