Plate code

NKR Plate Number Meaning: Nkwerre, Imo

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

Nkwerre, seat at Nkwerre town, registers as NKR. Around 80,270 people lived across its 38.45 km² in 2006, roughly 2,088 to the square kilometre. Two vehicles papered here on the same day carry these letters and differ only in what follows them.

NKR Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the NKR 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
NKR-128AA Nissan Primera Sal Car Custom
NKR-174AA Mazda 626 Sal Custom
NKR-236AA M/Benz C180 Custom
NKR-305AA M/Benz S/Car Custom
NKR-419AA Camry Custom
NKR-507AA M/Benz 190 Sal. Custom
NKR-741AA TOYOTA SIENNA ASH
NKR-956AA TOYOTA SIENNA CUSTOM
NKR-111AA Mit Haval H3 Jeep Custom
NKR-222AA Infinity Qx4 Jeep Custom
NKR-123AA Ford Focus S/Wagon 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.

What NKR Plates Look Like

11 Plates checked
Mercedes-Benz Most common make — 3 of 11 records

Counted from the 11 NKR 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 NKR

Local Government Area
Nkwerre
State
Imo
Headquarters
Nkwerre
Population
80,270 (2006)
Area
38.45 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 NKR Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so NKR places the paperwork in Nkwerre. 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 NKR plate away from Imo 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 NKR plate number

What does the NKR plate number mean?

NKR is the registration code of Nkwerre Local Government Area in Imo. 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 NKR plate number from?

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

Have a whole NKR 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.