Plate code

SNK Plate Number Meaning: Lere, Kaduna

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

SNK marks Lere, administered from Saminaka. The 2006 census counted 339,740 residents across 2,634 km², near 129 for every square kilometre. Three letters, digits, then two letters: only the first group is a place, and here it is Lere. The letters are the one part of a plate tied to a place.

SNK Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the SNK 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
SNK-128AA HONDA LOGO CUSTOM
SNK-174AA VOLKSWAGEN V/WAGEN custom
SNK-236AA PEUGEOT PEUGEOT 406 CUSTOM
SNK-305AA TOYOTA TOYOTA COROLLA Custom
SNK-628AA TOYOTA COROLLA ASH
SNK-853AA VOLKSWAGEN SHARON BLUE
SNK-956AA NISSAN FRONTIER BLUE
SNK-222AA HONDA CUSTOM
SNK-999AA TOYOTA CAMRY DARK GOLDEN
SNK-123AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF CUSTOM
SNK-987AA TOYOTA CAMRY ASH

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 SNK Plates Look Like

11 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 11 records

Counted from the 11 SNK 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 SNK

Local Government Area
Lere
State
Kaduna
Headquarters
Saminaka
Population
339,740 (2006)
Area
2,634 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 SNK Code Does and Does Not Tell You

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

What does the SNK plate number mean?

SNK is the registration code of Lere Local Government Area in Kaduna. 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 SNK plate number from?

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

Have a whole SNK 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.