Home Where WMI holders are registered
The country here is the one NHTSA records for each code's holder. It is not always where a given vehicle was assembled: the plant country sits in the decoding rules and is shown on each code's page. No country is recorded for 1,247 codes.
Three-character codes per country United States 8,409 six-character 1,895 China 47 six-character 213 Canada 151 six-character 166 Mexico 140 six-character 150 Japan 1 six-character 86 Germany 8 six-character 63 United Kingdom 29 six-character 44 Italy 4 six-character 40 Hong Kong 1 six-character 35 Taiwan 24 South Korea 4 six-character 20 Thailand 12 Brazil 11 France 5 six-character 11 Sweden 1 six-character 10 Vietnam 2 six-character 10 Australia 15 six-character 9 Spain3 six-character 7 South Africa7 six-character 7 India2 six-character 7 Turkey3 six-character 6 Denmark 6 Belgium1 six-character 5 Argentina3 six-character 5 Russia1 six-character 3 Norway 3 Uruguay 3 Poland2 six-character 3 Finland 2 Netherlands7 six-character 2 Switzerland1 six-character 2 Puerto Rico4 six-character 2 Saudi Arabia 2 New Zealand6 six-character 2 Estonia1 six-character 2 Czech Republic1 six-character 2 Austria1 six-character 1 Hungary 1 Slovenia 1 Israel2 six-character 1 Ireland1 six-character 1 Serbia 1 Romania 1 Portugal 1 Indonesia 1 Philippines1 six-character 1 Singapore2 six-character 1 North Macedonia1 six-character 1 Colombia2 six-character 1 Luxembourg 1 Source: NHTSA vPIC, October 2026 release (database updated October 17, 2026). How the figures are counted: How the catalog is read .