Plate code

NSW Plate Number Meaning: Nasarawa, Nasarawa

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

NSW is the Nasarawa district code, seat at Nasarawa town. At 5,704 km² it is the largest by area in the state, holding 189,835 residents at the 2006 census — some 33 for every square kilometre. Area makes no difference to allocation: one district, one set of three letters.

NSW Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the NSW 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
NSW-128AA NISSAN PATHFINDER CUSTOM
NSW-236AA Honda Civic Green
NSW-305AA TOYOTA RAV 4 JEEP BLUE
NSW-419AA M/Benz Saloon Ash
NSW-741AA HONDA CIVIC CUSTOM
NSW-853AA Peugeot 406 Saloon Custom
NSW-956AA FORD FOCUS CUSTOM
NSW-111AA TOYOTA COROLLA CUSTOM
NSW-222AA Toyota Camry Custom
NSW-999AA HONDA PILOT CUSTOM
NSW-123AA TOYOTA MATRIX ASH
NSW-987AA VOLKSWAGEN 3 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 NSW Plates Look Like

12 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 12 records

Counted from the 12 NSW 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 NSW

Local Government Area
Nasarawa
State
Nasarawa
Headquarters
Nasarawa
Population
189,835 (2006)
Area
5,704 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 NSW Code Does and Does Not Tell You

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

What does the NSW plate number mean?

NSW is the registration code of Nasarawa Local Government Area in Nasarawa. 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 NSW plate number from?

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

Codes Next to NSW in Nasarawa

Codes either side of NSW in the Nasarawa directory.

All Nasarawa plate number codes

Have a whole NSW 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.