Plate code

GWN Plate Number Meaning: Gwandu, Kebbi

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

GWN is the Gwandu code, administered from Gwandu town in Kebbi State. Nigerian codes are permanent markers of a local government area: not recycled between districts, not reissued as batches, and untouched by a change of owner. That permanence is what a three-letter lookup depends on, whether the plate is new or a decade old.

GWN Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the GWN 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
GWN-128AA Toyota Corolla Saloon Black
GWN-174AA Toyota Carina S/Wagon Custom
GWN-236AA TOYOTA COROLLA 1994 BLACK
GWN-305AA TOYOTA STARLET 1997 custom
GWN-628AA TOYOTA CAMRY 2003 Custom
GWN-741AA PONTIAC 406 PGT ASH
GWN-853AA HONDA CIVIC WIESS
GWN-956AA HONDA CIVIC WEISS
GWN-111AA Toyota Corolla Blue
GWN-999AA HONDA LEGEND LEGEND WEISS
GWN-123AA HONDA ACCORD 2002 CUSTOM
GWN-987AA PEUGEOT 406 ASH

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 GWN Plates Look Like

12 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 6 of 12 records

Counted from the 12 GWN 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 GWN

Local Government Area
Gwandu
State
Kebbi
Headquarters
Gwandu

Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.

What the GWN Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so GWN places the paperwork in Gwandu. 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 GWN plate away from Kebbi 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 GWN plate number

What does the GWN plate number mean?

GWN is the registration code of Gwandu Local Government Area in Kebbi. 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 GWN plate number from?

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

Codes Next to GWN in Kebbi

Codes either side of GWN in the Kebbi directory.

All Kebbi plate number codes

Have a whole GWN 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.