Plate code

DGE Plate Number Meaning: Ikpoba-Okha, Edo

The DGE plate number is registered in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area, Edo. 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 DGE code — Ikpoba-Okha, Edo
A plate issued in Ikpoba-Okha carries the DGE code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

DGE is the Ikpoba-Okha code. About 301,447 people were recorded there in 2006 across 862 km², some 350 to the square kilometre. Three letters, digits, then two letters — a Nigerian plate is read in that order, and only the first group can be traced to a place.

DGE Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the DGE 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
DGE-174AA TOYOTA CAMRY ASH
DGE-236AA GRAND CHEROKEE JEEP GREY
DGE-305AA VOLKSWAGEN AUDI 80 ASH
DGE-419AA TOYOTA HIGHLANDER HIGHTLANDER CUSTOM
DGE-628AA KIA SORENTO BLUE
DGE-741AA TOYOTA RAV 4 CUSTOM
DGE-956AA AUDI A4 1997 NAVY BLUE
DGE-111AA V/WAGEN PASSAT 2001 GREY
DGE-222AA NISSAN PRIMERA BROWN
DGE-999AA V/WAGEN PASSAT ASH
DGE-123AA COROLLA MATRIX/XR SILVER
DGE-987AA V/WAGEN VENTRO RED

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 DGE Plates Look Like

12 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 11 records
Ash Most common colour — 3 of 10 records

Counted from the 12 DGE 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 DGE

Local Government Area
Ikpoba-Okha
State
Edo
Headquarters
Idogbo
Population
301,447 (2006)
Area
862 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 DGE Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so DGE places the paperwork in Ikpoba-Okha. 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 DGE plate away from Edo 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 DGE plate number

What does the DGE plate number mean?

DGE is the registration code of Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area in Edo. 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 DGE plate number from?

Edo. The code identifies the local government area — Ikpoba-Okha — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole DGE 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.