page_title: Vehicle registration plates of Bulgaria
section_title: Foreigner vehicles
hierarchical_section_title: Vehicle registration plates of Bulgaria / Special types / Foreigner vehicles
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Import plaat Bulgarije
context_page_description: Standard Bulgarian vehicle registration plates display black glyphs on a white background, together with – on the left-hand side of the plate – a blue vertical "EU strip" showing the flag of Europe and, below it, the country code for Bulgaria: BG.
  The characters displayed in the main field of the plate are:
  a one- or two-letter province code
  four numerals
  a final two-letter code, known as the "series".
  The format is thus XX NNNN YY, where XX is the province code, NNNN is the serial number, and YY is the series. Since 1992, only glyphs that are common to both the Cyrillic and the Latin alphabets have been used on Bulgarian plates.
context_section_description: Cars belonging to foreigners and imported into Bulgaria for a limited period of time are light blue with white characters, starting with "ХХ", followed by four (semantically meaningless) digits and two small digits denoting the expiry year. From 2019 "XH" is used after "XX".
caption: A temporary licence plate of a car registered to a foreigner
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