Plate code

SDA Plate Number Meaning: Sardauna, Taraba

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

SDA is the Sardauna code. Taraba issues sixteen codes in all, one for each district it registers vehicles in. Nigerian codes are permanent markers of a district: not recycled, not reissued as batches and unchanged by a change of owner. That is what allows a three-letter lookup to answer the same way years after the plate was made.

SDA Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the SDA 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
SDA-236AA TOYOTA COROLLA COROLLA -
SDA-507AA TOYOTA HILUX -
SDA-628AA HONDA ACCORD ACCORD -
SDA-222AA TOYOTA VENZA GREY
SDA-999AA LEXUS RX350 N/A
SDA-123AA PEUGEOT 406 406 N/A

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 SDA

Local Government Area
Sardauna
State
Taraba

Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.

What the SDA Code Does and Does Not Tell You

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

What does the SDA plate number mean?

SDA is the registration code of Sardauna Local Government Area in Taraba. 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 SDA plate number from?

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

Codes Next to SDA in Taraba

Codes either side of SDA in the Taraba directory.

All Taraba plate number codes

Have a whole SDA 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.