Plate code

ABE Plate Number Meaning: Bekwara, Cross River

The ABE plate number is registered in Bekwara Local Government Area, Cross River. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.

Nigerian number plate with the ABE code — Bekwara, Cross River
A plate issued in Bekwara carries the ABE code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

ABE is issued in Bekwarra, the district administered from Abuochiche. The 2006 census counted 105,822 residents across 306 km², about 346 people to the square kilometre. Nigerian plates carry the local government area of registration in their opening three letters, and this is Bekwarra's.

ABE Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the ABE code that our own checks returned data for, most recent first. The make and the colour are shown exactly as the record gave them.

Plate Make Colour Checked
ABE-128AA Nissan Pathfinder Jeep Custom
ABE-174AA M/Benz Saloon Custom
ABE-236AA Honda Accord Saloon Car. Green
ABE-305AA Toyota Rav4 Custom
ABE-419AA Passat Custom
ABE-507AA Toyota Camry Custom
ABE-628AA S60 Custom
ABE-741AA Tribute Custom
ABE-853AA LIBERTY JEEP Limited Red
ABE-956AA VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT BLUE
ABE-111AA Toyota Camry Custom
ABE-222AA Toyota Camry Saloon Car. Ash

No holder name appears here, and none ever will: the Federal Road Safety Corps does not release registration holders to the public, so neither do we.

What ABE Plates Look Like

15 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 5 of 14 records

Counted from the 15 ABE plates we hold. It describes what we have seen, not the vehicle register — and the colour is the paint on the car, which is a different question from the colour of the plate itself. What plate colours mean

The District Behind ABE

Local Government Area
Bekwara
State
Cross River
Headquarters
Abuochiche
Population
105,822 (2006)
Area
306 km²

Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.

What the ABE Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so ABE places the paperwork in Bekwara. It does not follow the car afterwards: a vehicle sold across state lines keeps its plate until it is re-registered, which is why a ABE plate away from Cross River is a question for the seller rather than a finding in itself.

The letters also say nothing about the holder, the model or the history of the vehicle. Colours and special series are a separate system, explained on the code hub; what the car itself has been through — auction lots, damage, mileage at sale — is recorded against its VIN and travels with the car even when the plate changes.

Questions about the ABE plate number

What does the ABE plate number mean?

ABE is the registration code of Bekwara Local Government Area in Cross River. A vehicle wearing it was registered there; the three digits after the letters are its serial inside that LGA, and the last two letters are the series.

Which state is a ABE plate number from?

Cross River. The code identifies the local government area — Bekwara — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to ABE in Cross River

Codes either side of ABE in the Cross River directory.

All Cross River plate number codes

Have a whole ABE plate, not just the code?

The lookup takes the full plate and returns the local government area behind it. For the history of the vehicle — auction records, damage, mileage and photographs — check it by VIN.