Plate code

ALK Plate Number Meaning: Alkaleri, Bauchi

The ALK plate number is registered in Alkaleri Local Government Area, Bauchi. 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 ALK code — Alkaleri, Bauchi
A plate issued in Alkaleri carries the ALK code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

ALK is issued in Alkaleri, a district of 5,918 km² administered from Alkaleri town. The 2006 census counted 329,424 residents, about 56 to the square kilometre. Nigerian plates open with three letters for the local government area of registration, and this is that area's set.

ALK Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the ALK 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
ALK-128AA Toyota Jeep Blue
ALK-174AA Toyota Camry Custom
ALK-236AA HONDA ACADEMIC ASH
ALK-305AA Opel Vectra Ash
ALK-419AA PEUGEOT 306 CUSTOM
ALK-507AA TOYOTA CAMRY SILVER
ALK-628AA Honda Civic Blue
ALK-741AA Opel Vectra Saloo Custom
ALK-853AA Honda Civic Custom
ALK-956AA 406 Custom
ALK-111AA HONDA CIVIC HONDA CUSTOMS
ALK-222AA VOLKSWAGEN WAGEN CUSTOM

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 ALK Plates Look Like

15 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 5 of 15 records
Ash Most common colour — 3 of 6 records

Counted from the 15 ALK 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 ALK

Local Government Area
Alkaleri
State
Bauchi
Headquarters
Alkaleri
Population
329,424 (2006)
Area
5,918 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 ALK Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so ALK places the paperwork in Alkaleri. 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 ALK plate away from Bauchi 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 ALK plate number

What does the ALK plate number mean?

ALK is the registration code of Alkaleri Local Government Area in Bauchi. 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 ALK plate number from?

Bauchi. The code identifies the local government area — Alkaleri — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to ALK in Bauchi

Codes either side of ALK in the Bauchi directory.

All Bauchi plate number codes

Have a whole ALK 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.