Plate code

RMY Plate Number Meaning: Rimi, Katsina

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

Rimi registers vehicles as RMY. The 2006 census recorded 153,744 residents on 452 km², roughly 340 for every square kilometre. A code is allocated once and is not reissued anywhere else in the state. Whoever drives the car next inherits the same three letters.

RMY Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the RMY 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
RMY-128AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF DARK BLUE
RMY-419AA PEUGEOT 307 BLACK
RMY-507AA PEUGEOT 206

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 RMY

Local Government Area
Rimi
State
Katsina
Population
153,744 (2006)
Area
452 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 RMY Code Does and Does Not Tell You

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

What does the RMY plate number mean?

RMY is the registration code of Rimi Local Government Area in Katsina. 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 RMY plate number from?

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

Codes Next to RMY in Katsina

Codes either side of RMY in the Katsina directory.

All Katsina plate number codes

Have a whole RMY 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.