Plate code

LRN Plate Number Meaning: Ilorin-West, Kwara

The LRN plate number is registered in Ilorin-West Local Government Area, Kwara. 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 LRN code — Ilorin-West, Kwara
A plate issued in Ilorin-West carries the LRN code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

Ilorin West, run from Ilorin, uses LRN. The 2006 census recorded 364,666 residents within 105 km², roughly 3,473 for every square kilometre. Plates from the district appear all over the country, because a code follows the car rather than its owner's address.

LRN Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the LRN 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
LRN-236AA TOYOTA CAMRY GOLD
LRN-305AA TOYOTA CAMRY ASH
LRN-419AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GREY
LRN-741AA Ford Taurus Custom
LRN-853AA TOYOTAL CAMRY S/CAR -
LRN-999AA TOYOTA CAMRY S/CAR GOLDEN
LRN-123AA PEUGEOT 406 NAVY BLUE

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.

The District Behind LRN

Local Government Area
Ilorin-West
State
Kwara
Headquarters
Ilorin
Population
364,666 (2006)
Area
105 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 LRN Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so LRN places the paperwork in Ilorin-West. 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 LRN plate away from Kwara 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 LRN plate number

What does the LRN plate number mean?

LRN is the registration code of Ilorin-West Local Government Area in Kwara. 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 LRN plate number from?

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

Codes Next to LRN in Kwara

Codes either side of LRN in the Kwara directory.

All Kwara plate number codes

Have a whole LRN 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.