Plate code

ACA Plate Number Meaning: Awka-North, Anambra

The ACA plate number is registered in Awka-North Local Government Area, Anambra. 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 ACA code — Awka-North, Anambra
A plate issued in Awka-North carries the ACA code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

ACA belongs to Awka North, run from Achalla. About 159,900 residents (2022) share 347.50 km², roughly 460 to the square kilometre. Anambra uses twenty-one codes, one per district, and none of them changes when a vehicle is sold. A car sold three times still shows the letters of the district where its papers began.

ACA Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the ACA 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
ACA-128AA TOYOTA RAV4 BLUE
ACA-174AA Toyota Camry S/Car Green
ACA-236AA VOLKS WAGEN PASSAT CUSTOM
ACA-305AA Toyota Sienna Custom
ACA-419AA Toyota Camry Car Custom
ACA-507AA Nissan Cefiro Car Custom
ACA-628AA Toyota Yans Body Saloon Custom
ACA-741AA Toyota Previa Bus Custom
ACA-853AA M/Benz 190e Custom
ACA-956AA Mits. Space Runner Custom
ACA-111AA PEUGEOT 206 PEUGEOT WHITE
ACA-222AA Mitsubishi Space Runner Yellow

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 ACA Plates Look Like

15 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 6 of 15 records

Counted from the 15 ACA 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 ACA

Local Government Area
Awka-North
State
Anambra
Headquarters
Achalla
Population
159,900 (2022)
Area
347.5 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 ACA Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so ACA places the paperwork in Awka-North. 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 ACA plate away from Anambra 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 ACA plate number

What does the ACA plate number mean?

ACA is the registration code of Awka-North Local Government Area in Anambra. 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 ACA plate number from?

Anambra. The code identifies the local government area — Awka-North — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole ACA 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.