Plate code

KET Plate Number Meaning: Eket, Akwa Ibom

The KET plate number is registered in Eket Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom. 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 KET code — Eket, Akwa Ibom
A plate issued in Eket carries the KET code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Eket registers vehicles as KET, from the town of Eket. About 220,600 residents (2022) live over 209.70 km², some 1,052 to the square kilometre. The three letters are fixed when a car is first papered and stay on the plate until it is registered elsewhere.

KET Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the KET 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
KET-174AA TOYOTA HIGHLANDER GOLD
KET-236AA TOYOTA CAMRY CUSTOM
KET-305AA Toyota Camry S/Car Brown
KET-419AA Toyota Hilux D/C Pickup White
KET-741AA MERCEDES-BENZ V BOOT CUSTOM
KET-853AA MERCEDES C180 GREEN
KET-956AA TOYOTA COROLLA CUSTOM
KET-222AA TOYOTA CAMRY GREY
KET-999AA TOYOTA CAMRY GREEN
KET-123AA audi AUDI 80 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 KET Plates Look Like

10 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 7 of 10 records
Green Most common colour — 3 of 7 records

Counted from the 10 KET 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 KET

Local Government Area
Eket
State
Akwa Ibom
Headquarters
Eket
Population
220,600 (2022)
Area
209.7 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 KET Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so KET places the paperwork in Eket. 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 KET plate away from Akwa Ibom 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 KET plate number

What does the KET plate number mean?

KET is the registration code of Eket Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom. 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 KET plate number from?

Akwa Ibom. The code identifies the local government area — Eket — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to KET in Akwa Ibom

Codes either side of KET in the Akwa Ibom directory.

All Akwa Ibom plate number codes

Have a whole KET 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.