Plate code

MNA Plate Number Meaning: Chanchaga, Niger

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

Chanchaga, administered from Minna, uses MNA. The 2006 census counted 201,429 residents within 72 km², roughly 2,798 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.

MNA Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the MNA 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
MNA-128AA m/Benz Custom
MNA-174AA Honda Accord Custom
MNA-236AA HONDA ACCORD CUSTOM
MNA-419AA Toyota Lexus Custom
MNA-507AA Toyota Camry Custom
MNA-628AA TOYOTA COROLLA CUSTOM
MNA-741AA TOYOTA COROLLA CUSTOM
MNA-853AA Toyota Corolla Custom
MNA-956AA Honda Civic Custom
MNA-111AA Honda Jeep Custom
MNA-222AA BMW X3 CUSTOM
MNA-999AA Nissan Primera 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.

What MNA Plates Look Like

13 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 6 of 13 records

Counted from the 13 MNA 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 MNA

Local Government Area
Chanchaga
State
Niger
Headquarters
Minna
Population
201,429 (2006)
Area
72 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 MNA Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so MNA places the paperwork in Chanchaga. 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 MNA plate away from Niger 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 MNA plate number

What does the MNA plate number mean?

MNA is the registration code of Chanchaga Local Government Area in Niger. 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 MNA plate number from?

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

Codes Next to MNA in Niger

Codes either side of MNA in the Niger directory.

All Niger plate number codes

Have a whole MNA 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.