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.
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
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.
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.