Plate code

UWN Plate Number Meaning: Enugu-South, Enugu

The UWN plate number is registered in Enugu-South Local Government Area, Enugu. 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 UWN code — Enugu-South, Enugu
A plate issued in Enugu-South carries the UWN code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

UWN marks Enugu South, administered from Uwani. The 2006 census counted 198,723 people within 67 km², some 2,966 for every square kilometre. Density changes nothing about allocation: one local government area still means one set of three letters. Whoever drives the car next inherits the same three letters.

UWN Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the UWN 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
UWN-128AA Toyota Camry Car Ash
UWN-174AA Toyota Green
UWN-305AA Honda Hara Saloon Green
UWN-419AA Honda Accord Car Ash
UWN-507AA Nissan Altima Custom
UWN-628AA V/W.Golf 3 Sal. Custom
UWN-741AA Toyota Rav4 Black
UWN-853AA Corolla Toyota Red
UWN-111AA TOYOTA CAMRY CUSTOM
UWN-222AA Toyota Camry S/Car Custom
UWN-123AA Nissan Pathfinder Jeep Black
UWN-987AA Toyota Camry Sal Custom

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 UWN Plates Look Like

12 Plates checked
Toyota Most common make — 7 of 11 records

Counted from the 12 UWN 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 UWN

Local Government Area
Enugu-South
State
Enugu
Headquarters
Uwani
Population
198,723 (2006)
Area
67 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 UWN Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so UWN places the paperwork in Enugu-South. 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 UWN plate away from Enugu 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 UWN plate number

What does the UWN plate number mean?

UWN is the registration code of Enugu-South Local Government Area in Enugu. 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 UWN plate number from?

Enugu. The code identifies the local government area — Enugu-South — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Codes Next to UWN in Enugu

Codes either side of UWN in the Enugu directory.

All Enugu plate number codes

Have a whole UWN 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.