Plate code

GWK Plate Number Meaning: Aniocha-South, Delta

The GWK plate number is registered in Aniocha-South 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 GWK code — Aniocha-South, Delta
A plate issued in Aniocha-South carries the GWK code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Aniocha South, administered from Ogwashi-Uku, issues GWK. Around 140,604 residents were recorded there in 2006 over 868 km², roughly 162 for every square kilometre. The letters follow the vehicle rather than the driver and can be read back years later.

GWK Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the GWK 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
GWK-128AA Toyota Avensis S/Car Black
GWK-174AA Nissan Primera Green
GWK-236AA V/Wagen Jetta Green
GWK-305AA V/Wagen Vento Car Red
GWK-419AA V/W Audi 80 Custom
GWK-507AA Toyota Camry Custom
GWK-628AA V/W Golf Custom
GWK-741AA Volvo 740 Gle Custom
GWK-853AA Nissan Pathfinder Custom
GWK-956AA Toyota Camry Red
GWK-111AA Honda Accord Silver
GWK-222AA Infinity 130 Cream

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 GWK Plates Look Like

15 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 5 of 15 records

Counted from the 15 GWK 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 GWK

Local Government Area
Aniocha-South
State
Delta
Headquarters
Ogwashi-Uku
Population
140,604 (2006)
Area
868 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 GWK Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so GWK places the paperwork in Aniocha-South. 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 GWK 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 GWK plate number

What does the GWK plate number mean?

GWK is the registration code of Aniocha-South 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 GWK plate number from?

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

Have a whole GWK 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.