Vehicle registration plates of Chile

Chile requires its residents to register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates called "patentes".[1] Formerly, it consisted of two letters followed by four numbers in the format AB*12•34, but combinations were exhausted in September 2007. The system adopted to replace the old one consists of four letters followed by two numbers in the format AB•CD*12. Vowels are not used in order to prevent profanity, and the letter Q is not used because of confusion with the number 0.

Chilean license plate

New Chilean license plates (from 2014)

The same coding system is used in the Netherlands. In Chile the plate no longer provides information of where the vehicle was registered.

References

http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/SA_CHIL.html

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Vehicle registration plates of South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands