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 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.

Kingdom of Lesotho
Period following independence: Government: Diplomatic corps: Owing to a dispute between the foreign legations, several of them used distinctive codes for a period: The rest of the legations used DC.
 * LA – Maseru
 * LB – Butha Buthe
 * LC – Leribe
 * LD – Teyateyaneng
 * LE – Mafeteng
 * LF – Mohales Hoek
 * LG – Quthing
 * LH – Qacha's Nek
 * LJ – Mokhotlong
 * LX – Government vehicles
 * UKHC – United Kingdom High Commission
 * UNDP – United Nations Development Programme
 * USA – United States of America
 * WHO – World Health Organization
 * ROC – Republic of China (Taiwan)
 * D – Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)

Colony of Basutoland
Prior to independence: Government:
 * BA – Maseru
 * BB – Butha Buthe
 * BC – Leribe
 * BD – Teyateyaneng
 * BE – Mafeteng
 * BF – Mohales Hoek
 * BG – Quthing
 * BH – Qacha's Nek
 * BJ – Mokhotlong
 * BX – Government vehicles