Plate code

MAF Plate Number Meaning: Mafa, Borno

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

Mafa, run from Mafa town, registers as MAF. The district covers 2,869 km². On a Nigerian plate the opening letters place the registration and nothing else does — the serial part identifies the vehicle within the district, and the owner appears nowhere on the plate at all.

MAF Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the MAF 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
MAF-507AA PEUGEOT 206 CUSTOM
MAF-741AA CHANG AN SUV 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.

The District Behind MAF

Local Government Area
Mafa
State
Borno
Headquarters
Mafa
Area
2,869 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 MAF Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so MAF places the paperwork in Mafa. 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 MAF plate away from Borno 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 MAF plate number

What does the MAF plate number mean?

MAF is the registration code of Mafa Local Government Area in Borno. 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 MAF plate number from?

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

Codes Next to MAF in Borno

Codes either side of MAF in the Borno directory.

All Borno plate number codes

Have a whole MAF 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.