Plate code

BNY Plate Number Meaning: Bonny, Rivers

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

BNY is issued in Bonny, run from Bonny town. Around 214,983 people were recorded there in 2006 across 645.60 km², about 333 to the square kilometre. Codes name districts rather than towns, so settlements inside the area share these letters.

BNY Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the BNY 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
BNY-128AA HYUNDAI TUCSON GREEN
BNY-236AA TOYOTA PRADO BLACK
BNY-305AA NISSAN ALTIMA CUSTOM
BNY-507AA VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT CUSTOM
BNY-628AA TOYOTA COROLLA BLACK
BNY-741AA TOYOTA COROLLA RED
BNY-853AA GONOW PICK UP CUSTOM
BNY-956AA AUDI 80 CUSTOM
BNY-111AA TOYOTA PONTIAC CHOCOLATE BLACK
BNY-222AA NISSAN SUNNY LIFT BACK CUSTOM
BNY-999AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF CUSTOM
BNY-123AA Honda Odyssoy Space Bus 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 BNY Plates Look Like

13 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 12 records

Counted from the 13 BNY 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 BNY

Local Government Area
Bonny
State
Rivers
Headquarters
Bonny
Population
214,983 (2006)
Area
645.6 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 BNY Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so BNY places the paperwork in Bonny. 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 BNY plate away from Rivers 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 BNY plate number

What does the BNY plate number mean?

BNY is the registration code of Bonny Local Government Area in Rivers. 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 BNY plate number from?

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

Codes Next to BNY in Rivers

Codes either side of BNY in the Rivers directory.

All Rivers plate number codes

Have a whole BNY 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.