Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt is the capital of Rivers state, Nigeria, on the Bonny, a distributary of the Niger River, and has a population above two million.¹ . The tallest building is the Government House, which is 18 stories tall. Two soccer stadiums, Liberation and Sharks, are also notable. People in the neighborhood of the city speak either an Igboid language, Ikwere, or an Ijoid language, Kirike.² and most are probably Christians.

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street scene

Historical Maps

Footnotes

(1) world-gazetteer.com, Nigeria table, accessed 1/16/2010. The metropolitan population in the Africa table was the same as the city population.
(2) Nigeria Map 9 in Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed., Ethnologue Languages of the World, 15th ed. (SIL International, 2005).