New-style, post-c1998, Bosnian vehicle registration plates have no location information.

Old-style, pre-c1998, Bosnian vehicle registration plates started with a group of two or three letters, indicating the town of registration (though there were also other, semi-offical codes issued by the regional authorities; in Cyrillic for the 'Serbian' areas & Latin for the 'Croatian' areas):

• BČ - Brčko
• BI - Bihac
• BL - Banja Luka
• BN - Bijeljina
• BU - Bugojno

• ČP - Čapljina

• DO - Doboj

• GŽ - Goražde

• JC - Jacje
• KNJ - Konjic

• LI - Livno

• MD - Modrica
• MO - Mostar

• PD - Prijedor

• SA - Sarajevo
• SC - Sokolac

• TB - Trebinje
• TD - Titov Drvar (now Drvar)
• TR - Travnik
• TZ - Tuzla

• VI - Visoko

• ZE - Zenica
• ZV - Zvornik