Plate code

WRA Plate Number Meaning: Warawa, Kano

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

WRA is the Warawa code, seat at Warawa town. Around 128,787 residents lived across its 360 km² in 2006, about 358 for every square kilometre. The letters stay as issued for the life of the registration, whoever is driving the car.

WRA Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the WRA 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
WRA-305AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 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.

The District Behind WRA

Local Government Area
Warawa
State
Kano
Headquarters
Warawa
Population
128,787 (2006)
Area
360 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 WRA Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so WRA places the paperwork in Warawa. 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 WRA plate away from Kano 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 WRA plate number

What does the WRA plate number mean?

WRA is the registration code of Warawa Local Government Area in Kano. 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 WRA plate number from?

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

Codes Next to WRA in Kano

Codes either side of WRA in the Kano directory.

All Kano plate number codes

Have a whole WRA 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.