Plate code

GRE Plate Number Meaning: Girei, Adamawa

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

Girei uses GRE. Some 200,200 residents (2022) share 1,040 km² in the district, about 193 people for every square kilometre. Three letters at the head of a plate are a district of registration; the digits and letters that follow identify the individual vehicle within it.

GRE Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the GRE 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
GRE-128AA TOYOTA STARLET RED
GRE-174AA PEUGEOT 806 RED
GRE-305AA TOYOTA COROLLA ASH
GRE-419AA TOYOTA STARLET BLUE
GRE-507AA TOYOTA STARLET RED
GRE-628AA Toyota Starlet Custom
GRE-853AA TOYOTA COROLLA ASH
GRE-111AA PEUGEOT 806 BLUE
GRE-222AA OPEL VECTRA BLUE
GRE-123AA TOYOTA STARLET 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 GRE Plates Look Like

10 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 7 of 10 records
Red Most common colour — 4 of 9 records

Counted from the 10 GRE 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 GRE

Local Government Area
Girei
State
Adamawa
Population
200,200 (2022)
Area
1,040 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 GRE Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so GRE places the paperwork in Girei. 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 GRE plate away from Adamawa 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 GRE plate number

What does the GRE plate number mean?

GRE is the registration code of Girei Local Government Area in Adamawa. 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 GRE plate number from?

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

Codes Next to GRE in Adamawa

Codes either side of GRE in the Adamawa directory.

All Adamawa plate number codes

Have a whole GRE 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.