Plate code

KEN Plate Number Meaning: Keana, Nasarawa

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

Keana registers as KEN. Around 80,000 people were recorded there in 2006 across 1,048.10 km², about 76 to the square kilometre. A plate lookup returns the district and its state behind three letters, and never the name of an owner.

KEN Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the KEN 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
KEN-174AA Toyota Jeep Ash
KEN-305AA HONDA CIVIC RED
KEN-419AA HONDA ACCORD ASH
KEN-507AA PEUGEOT 206 CUSTOM
KEN-628AA Axiom Custom
KEN-956AA TOYOTA COROLLA ASH
KEN-111AA HONDA CRV RED
KEN-999AA TOYOTA SIENNA BLUE
KEN-123AA Honda Accord Blue
KEN-987AA TOYOTA COROLLA COROLLA 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 KEN Plates Look Like

10 Plates checked
Honda Most common make — 4 of 9 records
Ash Most common colour — 3 of 7 records

Counted from the 10 KEN 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 KEN

Local Government Area
Keana
State
Nasarawa
Population
80,000 (2006)
Area
1,048.1 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 KEN Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so KEN places the paperwork in Keana. 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 KEN plate away from Nasarawa 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 KEN plate number

What does the KEN plate number mean?

KEN is the registration code of Keana Local Government Area in Nasarawa. 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 KEN plate number from?

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

Codes Next to KEN in Nasarawa

Codes either side of KEN in the Nasarawa directory.

All Nasarawa plate number codes

Have a whole KEN 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.