Plate code

URM Plate Number Meaning: Esan-North-East, Edo

The URM plate number is registered in Esan-North-East Local Government Area, Edo. 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 URM code — Esan-North-East, Edo
A plate issued in Esan-North-East carries the URM code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

URM belongs to Esan North-East, administered from Uromi. The 2006 census put 119,346 residents on 338 km², near 353 for every square kilometre. Whoever buys the car inherits these letters with the papers, until the vehicle is registered elsewhere. Nothing on the plate identifies the car beyond its serial.

URM Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the URM 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
URM-174AA AUDI A4 1997 BLUE
URM-236AA HONDA CRV 1999 BLACK
URM-305AA TOYOTA MATRIX RED
URM-419AA VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT BLUE
URM-507AA VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT OXBLOOD
URM-628AA TOYOTA CAMRY 1999 PENCIL COLOUR
URM-741AA NISSAN PATHFINDER GREEN
URM-853AA LEXUS ES300 DARK GREEN
URM-956AA TOYOTA STARLET RED
URM-111AA V/WAGEN PASSAT 1989 ASH BLACK
URM-222AA VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT CUSTOM
URM-999AA TOYOTA HIGHLANDER 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 URM Plates Look Like

13 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 4 of 13 records
Blue Most common colour — 3 of 12 records

Counted from the 13 URM 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 URM

Local Government Area
Esan-North-East
State
Edo
Headquarters
Uromi
Population
119,346 (2006)
Area
338 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 URM Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so URM places the paperwork in Esan-North-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 URM plate away from Edo 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 URM plate number

What does the URM plate number mean?

URM is the registration code of Esan-North-East Local Government Area in Edo. 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 URM plate number from?

Edo. The code identifies the local government area — Esan-North-East — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole URM 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.