Plate code

KPR Plate Number Meaning: Gokana, Rivers

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

Gokana, administered from Kpor, uses KPR. The 2006 census recorded 228,828 residents within 126 km², near 1,816 for every square kilometre. The letters follow the vehicle and survive every sale, so a plate checked years later still points back here.

KPR Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the KPR 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
KPR-128AA MITSUBISHI PICK UP CUSTOM
KPR-174AA TOYOTA HIACE WHITE
KPR-236AA BMW 328i CUSTOM
KPR-305AA TOYOTA LEXUS RS330 JEEP CUSTOM
KPR-419AA HYUNDAI VERNA 1.5LT CUSTOM
KPR-507AA VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT CUSTOM
KPR-628AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF WHITE
KPR-741AA TOYOTA PICNIC CUSTOM
KPR-853AA TOYOTA HIGHLANDER JEEP CUSTOM
KPR-956AA TOYOTA CAMRY 2001 Custom
KPR-111AA NISSAN XTERRA CUSTOM
KPR-222AA CHEVROLET CRUZE BLACK

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 KPR Plates Look Like

15 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 8 of 15 records
White Most common colour — 3 of 6 records

Counted from the 15 KPR 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 KPR

Local Government Area
Gokana
State
Rivers
Headquarters
Kpor
Population
228,828 (2006)
Area
126 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 KPR Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so KPR places the paperwork in Gokana. 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 KPR plate away from Rivers 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 KPR plate number

What does the KPR plate number mean?

KPR is the registration code of Gokana Local Government Area in Rivers. 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 KPR plate number from?

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

Codes Next to KPR in Rivers

Codes either side of KPR in the Rivers directory.

All Rivers plate number codes

Have a whole KPR 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.