Port Harcourt
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 Top: A street scene in Port Harcourt Middle: Port Harcourt International Airport, The City Center Bottom: Government House, Port Harcourt | |
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  Port Harcourt Map of Nigeria showing the location of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. | |
| Coordinates: 4°49′27″N 7°2′1″E / 4.82417°N 7.03361°E | |
| Country |  Nigeria |
| State | Rivers |
| LGA(s) | Port Harcourt Obio-Akpor |
| Founded | 1912 |
| Incorporation | 1913[3] |
| Named after | Lewis Vernon Harcourt |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor–Council |
| • Body | Port Harcourt City Council |
| • Mayor | Soni Sam Ejekwu[4] |
| Area | |
• Metropolis | 369 km2 (142 sq mi) |
| • Land | 360 km2 (140 sq mi) |
| • Water | 9 km2 (3 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 158 km2 (61 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,900 km2 (700 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Metropolis | 1,005,904 |
| • Density | 2,700/km2 (7,100/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,865,000 |
| • Urban density | 12,000/km2 (31,000/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,000,000 |
| • Metro density | 1,100/km2 (2,700/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Harcourtian[9] |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (WAT) |
| Postcode | 500[10] |
| Area code(s) | 084[11] |
| Climate | Am |
Port Harcourt (Ikwerre: Ígúọ́cha;[12][13][14] Pidgin: Po-ta-kot[3][Note 1]) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State, Nigeria. It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the Niger Delta. As of 2016, the Port Harcourt urban area has an estimated population of 1,865,000 inhabitants, up from 1,382,592 as of 2006.[15][9]
The area that became Port Harcourt in 1912 was before that part of the farmlands of the Diobu village group of the Ikwerre, an Igbo sub-group (a controversial claim).[16] The colonial administration of Nigeria created the port to export coal from the collieries of Enugu located 243 kilometres (151 mi) north of Port Harcourt,[17] to which it was linked by a railway called the Eastern Line, also built by the British.[2][17][18]
In 1956 crude oil was discovered in commercial quantities at Oloibiri, and Port Harcourt's economy turned to petroleum when the first shipment of Nigerian crude oil was exported through the city in 1958. Through the benefits of the Nigerian petroleum industry, Port Harcourt was further developed, with aspects of modernisation such as overpasses, city blocks and taller more substantial buildings.[3] Oil firms that currently have offices in the city include Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron.[19]
There are a number of institutions of tertiary education in Port Harcourt, mostly government-owned. These institutions include, Rivers State University, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt Polytechnic, Ignatius Ajuru University and Rivers State College of Health Science and Technology. The current Mayor is Soni Sam Ejekwu. Port Harcourt's primary airport is Port Harcourt International Airport, located on the outskirts of the city; the NAF base is the location of the only other airport and is used by commercial airlines Aero Contractors and Air Nigeria) for domestic flights.[20]
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- ^ a b c d Hudgens, Jim; Trillo, Richard (2003). The rough guide to West Africa (4 ed.). Rough Guides. p. 1075. ISBN 1-843-53118-6.
- ^ "Mayor of Port Harcourt becomes Dolphins' No. 1 fan". Goal.com. Perform Group. 2013-06-08. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
- ^ "Rivers Population Statistics". City Population.de. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ Agbedeyi (11 May 2015). "Feeding Patterns of Children in Day Care Centres of Port Harcourt Metropolis". Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ Summing the 2 LGAs Port Harcourt as per:
"FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA : 2006 Population Census" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2016. - ^ Urban area: Demographia (January 2015). Demographia World Urban Areas (PDF) (11th ed.). Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ a b Arizona-Ogwu, L.Chinedu (16 February 2011). "Port Harcourt PDP Rally Stampede: Irregular Or Deregulated Police Action?". Nigerians In America. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ^ "Nipost Postcode Map". Nigerian Postal Service. Archived from the original on 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ^ Williams, Lizzie (2008). Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-84162-239-2.
- ^ Njoku, Onwuka N (October 2008). "Eastern Nigeria Under British Rule" (PDF). Department of History, University of Nigeria. University of Nigeria, Nsukka: 23.
- ^ McCall, John Christensen (2000). Dancing histories: heuristic ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo. University of Michigan Press. p. 75. ISBN 0-472-11070-5.
- ^ Okafor, S.O. (January 1973). "The Port Harcourt Issue: A Note on Dr Tamuno's Article" (PDF). African Affairs. Royal African Society. 72 (286). Oxford University Press: 74. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096323.
- ^ Demographia (April 2016). "Demographia World Urban Areas" (PDF) (11th ed.). Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ Onwuejeogwu, M.A (1981). Nri Kingdom & Hegemony. Ethnographica. ISBN 0905788087.
- ^ a b Nigeria, Chief Secretary's Office (1933). The Nigeria handbook (10 ed.). Eastern Line: Government Printer, Lagos. p. 83.
- ^ Udo, Reuben K. (1970). Geographical Regions of Nigeria. University of California Press. p. 85.
- ^ Ekeinde, Austin (October 28, 2010). "Slum demolition plan ups tension in Nigeria oil hub". Reuters Africa. p. 2. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ^ Williams, Lizzie (2008). Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide. p. 203. ISBN 9781841622392.
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