Rivers State
| Rivers State State nickname: Treasure Base of the Nation |
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| Date Created | 27 May 1967 | |
| Capital | Port Harcourt | |
| Official language | English | |
| Area | 11,077km² Ranked 26 of 36 |
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| Population - 2006 Census¹ - 1991 Census - Density (2006) |
Ranked N/A of 36 {{{population 2006}}} N/A {{{density 2006}}}/km² |
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Governor Previous Governors |
Celestine Omehia (PDP) | |
| Senators | John Azuta-Mbata (PDP) Lee Maeba (PDP) Ibiapoye Martyns-Yellowe (PDP) |
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| Representatives | List | |
| ISO 3166-2 | NG-RI | |
| Website | [] | |
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Rivers State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. Its capital is Port Harcourt. It is bounded on the South by the Atlantic Ocean,
to the North by Imo and Abia States, to the East by
Akwa Ibom State and to the West by Bayelsa and
Delta states.
The inland part of Rivers state consists of tropical rainforest; towards the coast the typical Niger Delta environment features many mangrove swamps.
Rivers state was part of the Oil Rivers Protectorate from 1885 till 1893, when it became part of the Niger Coast Protectorate. In 1900 the region was merged with the chartered territories of the Royal Niger Company to form the colony of Southern Nigeria.
The state was formed in 1967 with the split of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. Until 1996 the state contained the area which is now in the Bayelsa State.
Administrative Divisions
Rivers State is divided into twenty-three Local Government Areas (LGAs):
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| Abia | Abuja Federal Capital Territory | Adamawa | Akwa Ibom | Anambra | Bauchi | Bayelsa | Benue | Borno | Cross River | Delta | Ebonyi | Edo | Ekiti | Enugu | Gombe | Imo | Jigawa | Kaduna | Kano | Katsina | Kebbi | Kogi | Kwara | Lagos | Nasarawa | Niger | Ogun | Ondo | Osun | Oyo | Plateau | Rivers | Sokoto | Taraba | Yobe | Zamfara | |
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