QAP Plate Number Meaning: Qua'An-Pan, Plateau
The QAP plate number is registered in Qua'An-Pan Local Government Area, Plateau. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.
QAP belongs to Qua'an Pan, whose seat is at Baap. About 196,929 people lived across its 2,478 km² in 2006, about 79 to the square kilometre. Codes are not batches or years of issue, so an old plate decodes to the same district as a new one.
QAP Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the QAP 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QAP-128AA | VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 3 | GREEN | |
| QAP-174AA | VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 3 | BACK | |
| QAP-236AA | PONTIAC PONTIAC VIBE | BLACK | |
| QAP-305AA | TOYOTA CARINA II | GREEN | |
| QAP-419AA | 230 E | Custom | |
| QAP-507AA | VOLKSWAGEN VENTO | BLUE | |
| QAP-628AA | HONDA ACCORD | ASH | |
| QAP-999AA | HONDA ACCORD | DARK ASH | |
| QAP-123AA | PEUGEOT 406 | GREEN | |
| QAP-987AA | VECTRA | 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 QAP Plates Look Like
Counted from the 10 QAP 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 QAP
- Local Government Area
- Qua'An-Pan
- State
- Plateau
- Headquarters
- Baap
- Population
- 196,929 (2006)
- Area
- 2,478 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 QAP Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so QAP places the paperwork in Qua'An-Pan. 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 QAP plate away from Plateau 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 QAP plate number
What does the QAP plate number mean?
QAP is the registration code of Qua'An-Pan Local Government Area in Plateau. 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 QAP plate number from?
Plateau. The code identifies the local government area — Qua'An-Pan — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to QAP in Plateau
Codes either side of QAP in the Plateau directory.
Have a whole QAP 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.