Diplomatic codes after 1984

This is the table of diplomatic plates used since 1984 and of consular plates, introduced in 1995. It's quite obvious that the letters don't show the country in any way, but are chosen "geographically", starting from Europe (A-D) and then going to Asia (G-L), Africa (N-Q), America (S for North, T for Middle and U for South) and Australia (Z), with some special codes (X). They're printed in blue in this table because that's the colour used on the plates.

In the site it's also availbale the table with the diplomatic codes used before 1984.

Albania

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Czech Rep.

Cyprus

Denmark

Finland

France

France ⁽⁶⁾

Germany

Germnay ⁽⁶⁾

G.D.R. ⁽¹⁾

U.K.

Slovenia

Greece

Ireland

Italy

Serbia and Montenegro

Croatia

Luxembourg

Malta

Monaco

Norway

Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Romania

San Marino

Spain

Switzerland ⁽⁶⁾

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

Hungary

Russian Fed. ⁽⁵⁾

Ukraina

Uzbekistan

Vatican

Estonia

Macedonia

Bosnia and Erzegovina

Armenia

Georgia

Kazakhstan

Lettonia

Belarus

Lithuania

Moldava

Burkina Faso ⁽⁷⁾

Uganda ⁽⁷⁾

Zimbabwe ⁽⁷⁾

Mauritania ⁽⁷⁾

Eritrea

Mali ⁽⁷⁾

Afghanistan

Saudi Arabia

Bangladesh

Myanmar

Taiwan

China

Philippines ⁽⁶⁾

North Korea

Korea Rep.

U.A.E.

Philippines

Japan

Jordan

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Iraq ⁽²⁾

Kuwait

Lebanon

Malaysia

Oman

Pakistan

Syria

Sri Lanka

Thailand

Vietnam

Yemen

Algeria

Angola

Cameroon

Capo Verde

Republic of Congo

Cote d'Ivoire

Egypt

Ethiopia

Gabon

Ghana

Guinea

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Madagascar

Morocco

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone ⁽³⁾

Mozambico

Somalia ⁽⁴⁾

S. Africa

Sudan ⁽²⁾

Tanzania

Tunisia

Democratic Republic of Congo

Zambia ⁽³⁾

Canada

Mexico

SF SH SL SN SQ

U.S.A.

Costa Rica

Cuba

Dominican Rep

Ecuador

Guatemala

Haiti

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

El Salvador

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Paraguay

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

Argentina ⁽⁶⁾

Brazil ⁽⁶⁾

Colombia ⁽⁶⁾

Uruguay ⁽⁶⁾

Order of Malta

XC XD XE XF

FAO, United Nations

Vatican

Australia

New Zealand

(1)

Not used anymore since the unification of Germany.

(2)

The embassy of Iraq is closed since the Gulf War in 1990 like in the other European countries, so it's the Embassy of Sudan that represents the Iraqi interets in Italy. The code HP for Iraq is not sure. Many thanks to Fränk Kraus for this detail.

(3)

Zambia and Sierra Leone haven't got an embassy in Italy any more, but they are located respectively in Bruxelles and in Bonn, so these codes are not valid. Thanks to Fränk Kraus for this detail.

(4)

Somalia hasn't got an embassy in Italy any more. Thanks to Fränk Kraus for this detail.

(5)

USSR until 1991.

(6)

The codes used on the plates of the Consular Corps are exactly the same of the Diplomatic Corps, with the difference that the letters Q and U are not used. For this reason they don't match always and these new codes were introduced for some countries.

(7)

After the first period, the letter Q was eliminated from diplomatic plates. For this reason, E is used for the African Continent, instead of Q as it should be, for all the new added states.