SAN Plate Number Meaning: Yagba East, Kogi
The SAN plate number is registered in Yagba East Local Government Area, Kogi. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.
SAN belongs to Yagba East, administered from Isanlu. Around 140,150 people were recorded there in 2006 across 1,396 km², some 100 to the square kilometre. Each district in the state holds exactly one code, and a plate carries the one it was issued under.
SAN Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the SAN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAN-236AA | 200 | Blue | |
| SAN-507AA | MAZDA PREMACY | BLACK | |
| SAN-628AA | TOYOTA COROLLA COROLLA | SILVER | |
| SAN-741AA | PEUGEOT 504 SALON | BLUE | |
| SAN-853AA | Peugeot 505 | Green | |
| SAN-956AA | TOYOTA CARINA E CARINA E | GREEN | |
| SAN-111AA | TOYOTA CAMRY | NIL | |
| SAN-999AA | TOYOTA AVALON AVALON | CUSTOM | |
| SAN-123AA | HONDA ACCORD | RED | |
| SAN-987AA | Nissan Almera | 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 SAN Plates Look Like
Counted from the 10 SAN 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 SAN
- Local Government Area
- Yagba East
- State
- Kogi
- Headquarters
- Isanlu
- Population
- 140,150 (2006)
- Area
- 1,396 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 SAN Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so SAN places the paperwork in Yagba East. 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 SAN plate away from Kogi 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 SAN plate number
What does the SAN plate number mean?
SAN is the registration code of Yagba East Local Government Area in Kogi. 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 SAN plate number from?
Kogi. The code identifies the local government area — Yagba East — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to SAN in Kogi
Codes either side of SAN in the Kogi directory.
Have a whole SAN 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.