BND Plate Number Meaning: Bende, Abia
The BND plate number is registered in Bende Local Government Area, Abia. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.
BND belongs to Bende, the Abia district administered from Bende town. Its population stood at 192,621 at the 2006 census. A plate beginning with these letters was issued there, which is all the first group of a Nigerian registration is meant to tell you — the rest of the plate identifies the individual vehicle.
BND Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the BND 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BND-128AA | Volkswagen Golf Car | Custom | |
| BND-174AA | Mits Galant S/C | Ash | |
| BND-236AA | V/Wagen Passat | Custom | |
| BND-305AA | Volkswagen Audi 80 S/C | Custom | |
| BND-419AA | Toyota Camry | Custom | |
| BND-507AA | Toyota Corolla | Blue | |
| BND-628AA | Toyota Corolla Salon | Custom | |
| BND-741AA | M/Benz 200e S/Car | Blue | |
| BND-853AA | Toyota Yaris | Custom | |
| BND-956AA | V/Wagen Passat | Ash | |
| BND-222AA | Mitsubushi Space Runner Saloon Car | Custom | |
| BND-999AA | M/Ben V/Boot | 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 BND Plates Look Like
Counted from the 14 BND 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 BND
- Local Government Area
- Bende
- State
- Abia
- Headquarters
- Bende
- Population
- 192,621 (2006)
Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.
What the BND Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so BND places the paperwork in Bende. 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 BND plate away from Abia 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 BND plate number
What does the BND plate number mean?
BND is the registration code of Bende Local Government Area in Abia. 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 BND plate number from?
Abia. The code identifies the local government area — Bende — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to BND in Abia
Codes either side of BND in the Abia directory.
Have a whole BND 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.