YLA Plate Number Meaning: Yola South, Adamawa
The YLA plate number is registered in Yola South Local Government Area, Adamawa. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.
Yola South, also recorded as Yola and administered from Yola, registers vehicles as YLA. About 302,500 residents (2022) live across 919 km², roughly 329 to the square kilometre. Where sources disagree on a district's name, the three letters on the plate remain the stable identifier.
YLA Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the YLA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YLA-174AA | PEUGEOT 406 | ASH | |
| YLA-236AA | HONDA ACCORD | ASH | |
| YLA-507AA | TOYOTA STARLET | RED | |
| YLA-628AA | TOYOTA STARLET | WHITE | |
| YLA-956AA | Corolla | Custom | |
| YLA-222AA | TOYOTA LITEACE LITEACE | MAROON | |
| YLA-999AA | TOYOTA CAMRY | ASH | |
| YLA-123AA | Sienna | 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 YLA
- Local Government Area
- Yola South
- State
- Adamawa
- Headquarters
- Yola
- Population
- 302,500 (2022)
- Area
- 919 km²
- Also spelled
- Yola
Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.
What the YLA Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so YLA places the paperwork in Yola 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 YLA plate away from Adamawa 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 YLA plate number
What does the YLA plate number mean?
YLA is the registration code of Yola South Local Government Area in Adamawa. 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 YLA plate number from?
Adamawa. The code identifies the local government area — Yola South — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to YLA in Adamawa
Codes either side of YLA in the Adamawa directory.
Have a whole YLA 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.