Rivers State
Rivers State is a state in South South Nigeria. Rivers State is dominated by the numerous rivers that flow through it, including the Bonny River. Its capital and largest city, Port Harcourt, is economically important as the centre of Nigeria's oil industry.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Port Harcourt and Okrika.
Port Harcourt
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Port Harcourt is a gulf city and capital of Rivers State in the Niger Delta area of South South Nigeria and is the centre for the oil industry in the country.
Okrika
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Okrika is a port town in Rivers State, South South Nigeria. The town is situated on an island south of Port Harcourt, making it a suburb of the much larger city.
Bonny Island
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Bonny Island is an island town and a Local Government Area in Rivers State, South South Nigeria. It is also the capital of the Kingdom of Bonny.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Buguma and Opobo.
Buguma
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Buguma is a town in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is the base of the Kalabari Kingdom, a Nigerian traditional state, and home to King Amachree of the Kalabari Kingdom.
Opobo
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Opobo is a community in Rivers state, South South region of Nigeria that was founded in 1870. The people of Opobo are a mixture of the Ndoki clan of the Igbo people and the Ibani clan of the Ijaw ethnic group.
Oyigbo
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Oyigbo is a Local Government Area located in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is a town, 30 kilometers from the Port city of Port Harcourt, 25 km from the city of Aba.
Eleme
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Eleme is a local government area in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is part of the Port Harcourt metropolitan city. Eleme has its headquarters in the town of Ogale.
Rivers State
- Type: state of Nigeria with 6,690,000 residents
- Description: state in Nigeria
- Neighbors: Abia State, Akwa Ibom State, Anambra State, Bayelsa State, Delta State, and Imo State
- Location: South South Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Rivers State” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ولاية ريفرز”
- Armenian: “Ռիվերս նահանգ”
- Azerbaijani: “Rivers ştatı”
- Bengali: “রিভার অঙ্গরাজ্য”
- Bislama: “Rivers State”
- Bulgarian: “Ривърс”
- Catalan: “Rivers”
- Cebuano: “Rivers State”
- Central Kanuri: “Rivers State”
- Central Kanuri: “Rivers”
- Chinese: “Rivers Chiu”
- Chinese: “河流州”
- Czech: “Rivers”
- Danish: “Rivers”
- Dutch: “Rivers”
- Esperanto: “Rivera ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Rivera Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Rivera”
- Esperanto: “ŝtato Rivera”
- Esperanto: “ŝtato Rivers”
- Esperanto: “ŝubŝtato Rivera”
- Estonian: “Riversi osariik”
- Finnish: “Rivers”
- French: “Etat de Rivers”
- French: “État de Rivers”
- French: “Rivers”
- Fulah: “Rivers”
- Galician: “Rivers”
- Georgian: “რივერსის შტატი”
- German: “NG-RI”
- German: “Rivers”
- Greek: “Πολιτεία Ρίβερς”
- Gujarati: “રીવર્સ સ્ટેટ”
- Gun: “Ayimatẹn Rivers Tọn”
- Hausa: “Jihar rivers”
- Hausa: “Jihar Rivers”
- Hausa: “River State”
- Hindi: “रिवर्ज़ राज्य”
- Hindi: “रिवर्ज़ स्टेट”
- Hungarian: “Rivers állam”
- Igala: “Rivers state”
- Igbo: “Ȯra Rivers”
- Igbo: “Rivers state”
- Indonesian: “Rivers”
- Italian: “Rivers”
- Japanese: “リヴァース州”
- Japanese: “リヴァーズ州”
- Japanese: “リバース州”
- Japanese: “リバーズ州”
- Kannada: “ನದಿಗಳ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Korean: “리버스주”
- Latvian: “Riversa”
- Latvian: “Riversas štats”
- Lithuanian: “Riverso valstija”
- Malay: “Negeri Rivers”
- Marathi: “रिव्हर्स राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rivers Chiu”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Rivers state”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Rivers State”
- Northern Frisian: “Rivers (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Rivers”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rivers”
- Norwegian: “Rivers State”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Rivers State”
- Obolo: “Agan̄-mkpulu Rivas”
- Obolo: “Rivas (Agan̄-mkpulu)”
- Obolo: “Rivas”
- Persian: “ایالت ریورز”
- Polish: “Rivers”
- Portuguese: “Estado de Rivers”
- Portuguese: “Rios”
- Portuguese: “Rivers”
- Romanian: “Statul Rivers”
- Russian: “Риверс”
- Serbian: “Риверс”
- Sindhi: “ريورز رياست”
- Sinhala: “රිවර්ස් ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “රිවර්ස් ස්ටේට්”
- Slovenian: “Rivers”
- South Azerbaijani: “ریورز ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Estado de Rivers”
- Spanish: “Rios”
- Spanish: “Ríos”
- Spanish: “Rivers”
- Swahili: “Rivers State”
- Swahili: “Rivers”
- Swedish: “Rivers”
- Tamil: “ரிவர்ஸ் மாநிலம்”
- Telugu: “రివర్స్ రాష్ట్రము”
- Telugu: “రివర్స్ స్టేట్”
- Thai: “ริเวอส์”
- Tumbuka: “Rivers State, Nigeria”
- Tumbuka: “Rivers State,Nigeria”
- Tumbuka: “Rivers State”
- Turkish: “Rivers Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Rivers”
- Tyap: “NG-RI”
- Tyap: “Si̱tet Rivat”
- Ukrainian: “Риверс”
- Urdu: “ریورز اسٹیٹ”
- Urdu: “ریورز ریاست”
- Vietnamese: “Bang Rivers”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rivers (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rivers”
- Western Mari: “Риверс”
- Yoruba: “Ipinle Rivers”
- Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Rivers”
- Yoruba: “Rivers State”
- “Rivers State”
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