Plate code

HKW Plate Number Meaning: Ohaukwu, Ebonyi

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

Ohaukwu, run from Ezzambo, uses HKW. About 291,300 people (2022) share 707.80 km², some 412 for every square kilometre. The code follows the vehicle rather than the driver, so it can be checked long after a sale has been forgotten.

HKW Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the HKW 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
HKW-128AA Toyota Carina 11 Custom
HKW-236AA M/Benz 230 Custom
HKW-305AA V/Wagen Sentena Sal Car Custom
HKW-419AA TOYOTA COROLLA GREY
HKW-507AA Toyota Panel Van Custom
HKW-628AA Nissan Primera Custom
HKW-741AA Volvo 5580 Custom
HKW-956AA E 240 Ash
HKW-111AA Lexus 570 Jeep Custom
HKW-222AA M/Benz 190 Custom
HKW-123AA Audi A6 Car Custom
HKW-987AA TOYOTA CAMRY 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 HKW Plates Look Like

12 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 11 records

Counted from the 12 HKW 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 HKW

Local Government Area
Ohaukwu
State
Ebonyi
Headquarters
Ezzambo
Population
291,300 (2022)
Area
707.8 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 HKW Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so HKW places the paperwork in Ohaukwu. 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 HKW plate away from Ebonyi 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 HKW plate number

What does the HKW plate number mean?

HKW is the registration code of Ohaukwu Local Government Area in Ebonyi. 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 HKW plate number from?

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

Codes Next to HKW in Ebonyi

Codes either side of HKW in the Ebonyi directory.

All Ebonyi plate number codes

Have a whole HKW 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.