Plate code

ANW Plate Number Meaning: Jos-East, Plateau

The ANW plate number is registered in Jos-East Local Government Area, Plateau. 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 ANW code — Jos-East, Plateau
A plate issued in Jos-East carries the ANW code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

ANW is issued in Jos East. With 85,602 residents at the 2006 census across 1,020 km² it is the least populous district in Plateau State, at about 84 people to the square kilometre. It holds a full code all the same, because allocation follows local government areas rather than population.

ANW Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the ANW 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
ANW-174AA KIA SORETO ASH
ANW-507AA TOYOTA CAMRY OX BLOOD
ANW-628AA OPEL SINTRA GRAY
ANW-741AA TOYOTA CAMRY ASH
ANW-853AA TOYOTA COROLLA ASH
ANW-956AA HONDA CRV GREEN
ANW-111AA NISSAN MURANO ASH
ANW-222AA HONDA ACCORD ASH
ANW-999AA PEUGEOT 504 BLUE
ANW-123AA Peugeot504 Green
ANW-987AA MAZDA 323 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 ANW Plates Look Like

11 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 3 of 11 records
Ash Most common colour — 5 of 11 records

Counted from the 11 ANW 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 ANW

Local Government Area
Jos-East
State
Plateau
Headquarters
Angware
Population
85,602 (2006)
Area
1,020 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 ANW Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so ANW places the paperwork in Jos-East. 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 ANW plate away from Plateau 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 ANW plate number

What does the ANW plate number mean?

ANW is the registration code of Jos-East Local Government Area in Plateau. 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 ANW plate number from?

Plateau. The code identifies the local government area — Jos-East — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to ANW in Plateau

Codes either side of ANW in the Plateau directory.

All Plateau plate number codes

Have a whole ANW 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.