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.
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
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.
Codes Next to URM in Edo
Codes either side of URM in the Edo directory.
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.