title: Vehicle registration plates of Lesotho
text: # Vehicle registration plates of Lesotho
  
  Lesotho requires its residents to register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates.
  
  Plates are blue-on-white for private vehicles and red-on-white for government vehicles. They follow the format of one or two letters followed by four numbers. Diplomatic Plates are blue-on-white however have the letters CD on them.
  
  | A 1234 | A 1234 |
  | - | - |
  | A 1234 | A 1234 |
  
  A mokorotlo, the same colour as the characters on the plate, is stuck onto the plate to show a 5-year validity period.
  
  Dealer plates are also red-on-white but do not follow the A 1234 standard and do not show the mokorotlo.
  
  Before 1979, private plates were white-on-black and had an additional preceding 'L' which stood for Lesotho.
  
  | LA 1234 | LA 1234 |
  | - | - |
  
  ## Kingdom of Lesotho
  
  Period following independence:
  
  * LA – Maseru
  * LB – Butha Buthe
  * LC – Leribe
  * LD – Teyateyaneng
  * LE – Mafeteng
  * LF – Mohales Hoek
  * LG – Quthing
  * LH – Qacha's Nek
  * LJ – Mokhotlong
  
  Government:
  
  * LX – Government vehicles
  
  Diplomatic corps: Owing to a dispute between the foreign legations, several of them used distinctive codes for a period:
  
  * UKHC – United Kingdom High Commission
  * UNDP – United Nations Development Programme
  * USA – United States of America
  * WHO – World Health Organisation
  * ROC – Republic of China (Taiwan)
  * D – Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
  
  The rest of the legations used DC.
  
  ## Colony of Basutoland
  
  Prior to independence:
  
  * BA – Maseru
  * BB – Butha Buthe
  * BC – Leribe
  * BD – Teyateyaneng
  * BE – Mafeteng
  * BF – Mohales Hoek
  * BG – Quthing
  * BH – Qacha's Nek
  * BJ – Mokhotlong
  
  Government:
  
  * BX – Government vehicles
  