YYY Plate Number Meaning: Oyo-East, Oyo
The YYY plate number is registered in Oyo-East Local Government Area, Oyo. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.
YYY belongs to Oyo East, run from Kosobo. The 2006 census put 123,846 residents on 144 km², near 860 for every square kilometre. Reading the code places a plate geographically, and that is the whole of what it can honestly do.
YYY Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the YYY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YYY-128AA | Toyota Siena Car | Green | |
| YYY-174AA | V/Wagen Golf Saloon Car | Ash | |
| YYY-236AA | Nissan Micra S/Car | Ash | |
| YYY-305AA | Toyota Camry S/C | Brown | |
| YYY-419AA | Bmw S/C | Custom | |
| YYY-507AA | V/Wagen Golf 3 S/Car | Blue | |
| YYY-628AA | Primera | Custom | |
| YYY-741AA | Volvo V70 Car | Silver | |
| YYY-853AA | Hond Accord S/C | Custom | |
| YYY-111AA | Mazda 323 S/Car | White | |
| YYY-222AA | Honda Accord | Green | |
| YYY-999AA | Honda Crosstour | Ash |
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 YYY Plates Look Like
Counted from the 14 YYY 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 YYY
- Local Government Area
- Oyo-East
- State
- Oyo
- Headquarters
- Kosobo
- Population
- 123,846 (2006)
- Area
- 144 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 YYY Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so YYY places the paperwork in Oyo-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 YYY plate away from Oyo 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 YYY plate number
What does the YYY plate number mean?
YYY is the registration code of Oyo-East Local Government Area in Oyo. 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 YYY plate number from?
Oyo. The code identifies the local government area — Oyo-East — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to YYY in Oyo
Codes either side of YYY in the Oyo directory.
Have a whole YYY 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.