New-style (post-c2000) Paraguayan vehicle registration plates do not indicate place of origin.
Old-style (pre-c2000) registration plates have their town of registration at the top,
followed by PARAGUAY;
for towns outside Asuncion, the registration starts with a letter,
indicating the department the town is located in
(followed here by their main towns to aid location):
- A - Concepción, Oriental Province (Concepción)
- B - San Pedro, Oriental Province (San Pedro)
- C - Cordillera, Oriental Province (Caacupé)
- D - Guairá, Oriental Province (Villarrica)
- E - Caaguazú, Oriental Province (Coronel Oviedo)
- F - Caazapá, Oriental Province (Caazapá)
- G - Itapúa, Oriental Province (Encarnación)
- H - Misiones, Oriental Province (San Juan Bautista)
- I - Paraguarí, Oriental Province (Paraguarí)
- J - Alto Paraná, Oriental Province (Ciudad del Este)
- K - Central, Oriental Province (Ypacarai)
- L - Neembucú, Oriental Province (Pilar)
- M - Amambay, Oriental Province (Pedro Juan Caballero)
- N - Canendiyú, Oriental Province (Salto del Guairá)
- Q - Presidente Hayes, Occidental Province (Pozo Colorado)
- R - Alto Paraguay, Occidental Province (Fuerte Olimpo)
- S - Chaco, Occidental Province (Capitán Pablo Lagerenza)
- T - Nueva Asunción, Occidental Province (General Eugenio A Garay)
- U - Boquerón, Occidental Province (Mariscal Estigarribia)