World Number Plates

Number Plates of Madagascar

Continent: Africa

Capital: Antananarivo

Population: 18 million

Country ISO code: MG

Country OVAL code: RM
(Republic of Madagascar)

Driving Side: Right

First license issued in 1962

Number of vehicles:
cars 27,739 (1989), trucks and buses 20,544 (1989)

Road information:
total: 49,827 km; paved: 5,780 km; unpaved: 44,047 km (1999 est.)

Located off the coast of Eastern coast of Africa, Madagascar is an island in the Indian Ocean.

The earlier series of number plates in the 1960s had white lettering on a black number plate. Some of the number plates had a purple background with white lettering. The current series of number plates are white with black lettering and border. All the series followed a DDDD LL format with ‘D’ representing a digit and ‘L’ representing a letter.