Vehicle registration plates of Turkmenistan

Although it had become a sovereign state in 1991, Turkmenistan continued to use Soviet plates until the introduction of the current format in 1994[1] – a phenomenon also observed in Kyrgyzstan.

Major changes include the switch from Cyrillic letters to Latin, and the presence of the Turkmen flag with the two-letter country code TM on the left of the plate.

Diplomatic plates are blue with white characters (rendered in DIN 1451) of the form ## CD ### – where # is any digit in the range 0–9.

Plates issued to foreign nationals or companies residing in Turkmenistan resemble closely those found in Azerbaijan.

Government plates are green with silver characters arranged in the following format: ## ## XXX – where # is any digit between 0 and 9, and X is a letter from the Latin alphabet.