Plate code

GRA Plate Number Meaning: Ethiope-West, Delta

The GRA plate number is registered in Ethiope-West Local Government Area, Delta. 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 GRA code — Ethiope-West, Delta
A plate issued in Ethiope-West carries the GRA code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

GRA marks Ethiope West. The 2006 census counted 203,592 people across 536 km², about 380 to the square kilometre. A plate check answers where a vehicle was registered; what the car is and what has happened to it are questions for its chassis number.

GRA Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the GRA 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
GRA-174AA TOYOTA YARIS CUSTOM
GRA-305AA Hyundai Bus Commercial
GRA-419AA Toyota Camry Custom
GRA-507AA Toyota Picnic S/Car Custom
GRA-628AA Toyota Camry s/Car Green
GRA-853AA Mits Space Wagon Custom
GRA-956AA v/w Passat Custom
GRA-111AA Lexus Jeep Custom
GRA-222AA Nissan Primera Custom
GRA-123AA M/Benz S/C 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 GRA Plates Look Like

10 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 10 records

Counted from the 10 GRA 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 GRA

Local Government Area
Ethiope-West
State
Delta
Headquarters
Oghara
Population
203,592 (2006)
Area
536 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 GRA Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so GRA places the paperwork in Ethiope-West. 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 GRA plate away from Delta 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 GRA plate number

What does the GRA plate number mean?

GRA is the registration code of Ethiope-West Local Government Area in Delta. 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 GRA plate number from?

Delta. The code identifies the local government area — Ethiope-West — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole GRA 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.