Plate code

HKY Plate Number Meaning: Kudan, Kaduna

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

Kudan registers as HKY, from its headquarters at Hunkuyi. The 2006 census counted 138,992 residents over 345.40 km², roughly 402 for every square kilometre. The code is replaced only by re-registration in another district; a change of owner leaves it alone.

HKY Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the HKY 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
HKY-128AA HONDA SALOON CUSTOM
HKY-174AA TOYOTA toyota - camry custom
HKY-236AA PEUGEOT peugeot 505 custom
HKY-305AA HONDA SALON CUSTOM
HKY-419AA HONDA CIVIC CUSTOM
HKY-741AA TOYOTA COROLLA CUSTOM
HKY-111AA PEUGEOT SALOON Custom
HKY-222AA TOYOTA CUSTOM
HKY-999AA HONDA CIVIC GREEN
HKY-123AA MERCEDES-BENZ 124 METALLIC BLUE
HKY-987AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF LEMON GREEN

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 HKY Plates Look Like

11 Plates checked
Honda Most common make — 4 of 11 records

Counted from the 11 HKY 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 HKY

Local Government Area
Kudan
State
Kaduna
Headquarters
Hunkuyi
Population
138,992 (2006)
Area
345.4 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 HKY Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so HKY places the paperwork in Kudan. 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 HKY plate away from Kaduna 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 HKY plate number

What does the HKY plate number mean?

HKY is the registration code of Kudan Local Government Area in Kaduna. 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 HKY plate number from?

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

Codes Next to HKY in Kaduna

Codes either side of HKY in the Kaduna directory.

All Kaduna plate number codes

Have a whole HKY 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.