Plate code

LND Plate Number Meaning: Lagos-Mainland, Lagos

The LND plate number is registered in Lagos-Mainland Local Government Area, Lagos. 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 LND code — Lagos-Mainland, Lagos
A plate issued in Lagos-Mainland carries the LND code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

LND is the Lagos Mainland code, administered from Ebute Metta. Every Nigerian plate opens with three letters that fix the vehicle to a local government area, and this is the district those letters point to. The code is set when the car is first registered and follows it through every sale, until an owner registers it under another district and a new code replaces it.

LND Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the LND 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
LND-128AA Honda Accord Ash
LND-174AA Nissan Serena Bus Blue
LND-236AA Nissan Urvan Bus White
LND-305AA Lexus S/C Gold
LND-507AA Nissan Primera S/Wagon Grey
LND-628AA Toyota Camry Blue
LND-741AA Honda Crv Jeep Black
LND-853AA Toyota Camry Grey
LND-956AA Honda Crv Grey
LND-111AA Bmw X5 Jeep Silver
LND-222AA Hyundao Santafe Brown
LND-333AA Toyota Highlander Jeep Gold
LND-555AA Honda Accord S/Car Gold
LND-666AA Nissan Rogue Ash
LND-777AA Toyota Sienna Gold
LND-888AA Renault S/Car Silver
LND-999AA Toyota Camry Blue
LND-123AA Toyota Corolla Silver
LND-234AA Toyota 4runner Ash
LND-345AA Ford Econoline White
LND-456AA V/Wagen Golf Red
LND-567AA Toyota Rav White
LND-678AA Mazda Mpv Silver
LND-789AA Nissan Pathfinder Ash
LND-987AA Mit Pajero 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 LND Plates Look Like

32 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 11 of 31 records
Blue Most common colour — 6 of 31 records

Counted from the 32 LND 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 LND

Local Government Area
Lagos-Mainland
State
Lagos
Headquarters
Ebute Metta

Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.

What the LND Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so LND places the paperwork in Lagos-Mainland. 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 LND plate away from Lagos 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 LND plate number

What does the LND plate number mean?

LND is the registration code of Lagos-Mainland Local Government Area in Lagos. 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 LND plate number from?

Lagos. The code identifies the local government area — Lagos-Mainland — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Can I find out who owns a LND plate number?

No, and not from any public source. Registration holders are personal data held by the FRSC and the state motor vehicle administration agency, released to the police, the courts and insurers through their own channels. What is public is the code, which is what this page publishes.

Is a LND plate valid outside Lagos?

Yes. A Nigerian plate is valid nationwide, and the code simply records where the registration was issued. Re-registration is what changes the code, and it is not required merely because the vehicle has moved.

How do I check a full LND plate number?

Use the plate lookup on our verify page: type the whole plate, and it reads the three-letter prefix and returns the local government area and the state. To find out what the vehicle has been through, check it by VIN instead.

Have a whole LND 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.