Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southern Nigeria in the Niger River delta southeast of Ibadan.
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- proper noun A large city in
Nigeria
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Examples
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He was captured in the southern town of Port Harcourt, which is an important centre for the country's oil industry.
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He was captured in the southern town of Port Harcourt, which is an important centre for the country's oil industry.
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Ken shuttled across three or four times a year, and the family spent every summer together in Port Harcourt.
Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa's daughter remembers her father 2011
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Rather a distant dad, though; for most of her childhood, she saw him only three or four times a year, on his regular visits to England where she lived with her mother, brothers and twin sister, and during the long summer holidays at the family home in Port Harcourt, where her father lived.
Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa's daughter remembers her father 2011
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Displaced villagers were hunted down in the regional capital, Port Harcourt, and killed in their homes, schools and workplaces.
Shell accused of fuelling violence in Nigeria by paying rival militant gangs 2011
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Thousands of people had crowded into a stadium in Port Harcourt to hear the president speak.
Nigeria Electoral Commission to Display Voter List This Week 2011
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Police say thousands of supporters had crowded in and around a stadium in Port Harcourt Saturday to hear President Jonathan, who is from the region.
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The machines have yet to be installed at the international airports in Kano and Port Harcourt, he said.
Brand New Airport Body Scanners Sitting Unused In Nigeria 2010
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The machines have yet to be installed at the international airports in Kano and Port Harcourt, he said.
Brand New Airport Body Scanners Sitting Unused In Nigeria 2010
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But there are early signs of froth, reminiscent of other poor, frontier oil towns like Port Harcourt, at the edge of Nigeria ' s Niger Delta.
Iraq Chip Cummins 2010
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