Plate code

ANA Plate Number Meaning: Calabar-South, Cross River

The ANA plate number is registered in Calabar-South 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 ANA code — Calabar-South, Cross River
A plate issued in Calabar-South carries the ANA code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

ANA belongs to Calabar South, whose council sits at Anantigha. About 191,630 people were recorded there in 2006 across 264 km², some 726 to the square kilometre. Cross River registers vehicles under eighteen codes, one for each of its local government areas.

ANA Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the ANA 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
ANA-128AA VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT GREEN
ANA-174AA Passat Wagon Custom
ANA-236AA TOYOTA COROLLA TOYOTA RED
ANA-305AA Nissan Primera Custom
ANA-419AA Toyota Corolla Custom
ANA-507AA Peugeot 505 Grey
ANA-628AA NISSAN ALTIMA ASH
ANA-741AA TOYOTA CAMRY Custom
ANA-853AA AUDI 80 Custom
ANA-956AA m/b Custom
ANA-222AA Baw Mini Bus 15 Seater Custom
ANA-999AA Nissan Almera 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 ANA Plates Look Like

14 Plates checked
Nissan Most common make — 3 of 13 records

Counted from the 14 ANA 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 ANA

Local Government Area
Calabar-South
State
Cross River
Headquarters
Anantigha
Population
191,630 (2006)
Area
264 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 ANA Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so ANA places the paperwork in Calabar-South. 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 ANA 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 ANA plate number

What does the ANA plate number mean?

ANA is the registration code of Calabar-South 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 ANA plate number from?

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

Codes Next to ANA in Cross River

Codes either side of ANA in the Cross River directory.

All Cross River plate number codes

Have a whole ANA 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.