Port Harcourt (NG)
Port Harcourt is the capital and largest city (more than 1,000,000 inhabitants in 2006) of Rivers State, Nigeria. It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the Niger Delta.
The area that became Port Harcourt in 1912 was before that part of Fishing settlements (fishing ports) also called Borokiri in Okrika language and the farmlands of the Diobu village group of the Ikwerre, a tribe in the larger Igbo nation. The colonial administration of Nigeria created the port to export coal from the collieries of Enugu located 243 km north of Port Harcourt, to which it was linked by a railway called the Eastern Line, also built by the British.
Bonny River is a river in Rivers State. Water taxis which move along the river provide the connection between Bonny Island and Port Harcourt, which lies alongside the river.
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