CAL Plate Number Meaning: Calabar-Municipal, Cross River
The CAL plate number is registered in Calabar-Municipal 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.
Calabar Municipal, run from Calabar, registers as CAL. About 179,392 people were recorded there in 2006 within 142 km², some 1,263 to the square kilometre. A code is issued once and read back later exactly as given, whoever owns the car by then.
CAL Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the CAL 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAL-128AA | NISSAN PREMERA PRIMERA | BLUE | |
| CAL-174AA | Honda Accord | Custom | |
| CAL-236AA | TOYOTA PICNIC | SILVER | |
| CAL-305AA | Honda Crv Jeep. | Green | |
| CAL-419AA | Toyota Avanza | Custom | |
| CAL-507AA | TOYOTA 4 RUNNER | ASH | |
| CAL-628AA | Mazda 626 | Custom | |
| CAL-741AA | Mazda 626 S/Car | Custom | |
| CAL-853AA | M/Benz 190 | Custom | |
| CAL-956AA | Peugeot 504 | Custom | |
| CAL-111AA | HONDA CRV JEEP | BLACK | |
| CAL-222AA | Toyota Camry S/Car | 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 CAL Plates Look Like
Counted from the 15 CAL 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 CAL
- Local Government Area
- Calabar-Municipal
- State
- Cross River
- Headquarters
- Calabar
- Population
- 179,392 (2006)
- Area
- 142 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 CAL Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so CAL places the paperwork in Calabar-Municipal. 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 CAL 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 CAL plate number
What does the CAL plate number mean?
CAL is the registration code of Calabar-Municipal 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 CAL plate number from?
Cross River. The code identifies the local government area — Calabar-Municipal — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to CAL in Cross River
Codes either side of CAL in the Cross River directory.
Have a whole CAL 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.