ABJ Plate Number Meaning: Abaji Area Council, Abuja
The ABJ plate number is registered in Abaji Area Council Local Government Area, Abuja. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.
Abaji Area Council, run from Abaji town, registers vehicles as ABJ. Around 127,900 residents (2022) live over 948.10 km², roughly 135 for every square kilometre. The Federal Capital Territory uses nine codes in all, and a plate carries the one it was issued under until the car is registered elsewhere.
ABJ Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the ABJ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABJ-128AA | PEUGEOT 406 | ASH | |
| ABJ-174AA | Toyota Camry Saloon | Custom | |
| ABJ-236AA | PEUGEOT 406 | BLACK | |
| ABJ-305AA | Toyota Corolla Saloon | Custom | |
| ABJ-419AA | TOYOTA COROLLA SALOON | ||
| ABJ-507AA | TOYOTA COROLLA | BLACK | |
| ABJ-628AA | VOLKSWAGEN 1998 | black | |
| ABJ-741AA | BMW BW | CUSTOM | |
| ABJ-853AA | Toyota Matrix Saloon | Custom | |
| ABJ-956AA | Toyota Camry S/Car | Green | |
| ABJ-111AA | RAV4 | White | |
| ABJ-222AA | TOTOTA TOYOTA HIGHLANDER JEEP | BLACK |
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 ABJ Plates Look Like
Counted from the 15 ABJ 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 ABJ
- Local Government Area
- Abaji Area Council
- State
- Abuja (FCT)
- Headquarters
- Abaji
- Population
- 127,900 (2022)
- Area
- 948.1 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 ABJ Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so ABJ places the paperwork in Abaji Area Council. 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 ABJ plate away from Abuja 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 ABJ plate number
What does the ABJ plate number mean?
ABJ is the registration code of Abaji Area Council Local Government Area in Abuja. 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 ABJ plate number from?
Abuja. The code identifies the local government area — Abaji Area Council — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to ABJ in Abuja
Codes either side of ABJ in the Abuja directory.
Have a whole ABJ 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.