New Calabar River
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The New Calabar River is a river in Rivers State
, Nigeria
, in the Niger River Delta. The Kalabari Kingdom
was based on this river.
Rivers State
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, Abia and Anambra States, to the East by Akwa Ibom State and to the West by Bayelsa and Delta states...
, Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
, in the Niger River Delta. The Kalabari Kingdom
Kalabari Kingdom
The Kalabari Kingdom, also called Elem Kalabari , or New Calabar by the Europeans, was an independent trading state of the Kalabari people , an Ijaw ethnic group, in the Niger River Delta....
was based on this river.