page_title: Harbor
section_title: Important harbors
hierarchical_section_title: Harbor / Important harbors
caption_attribution_description: Valparaiso
context_page_description: A harbor or harbour is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked. The term harbor is often used interchangeably with port, which is a man-made facility built for loading and unloading vessels and dropping off and picking up passengers. Ports usually include one or more harbors. Alexandria Port in Egypt is an example of a port with two harbors.
  Harbors may be natural or artificial. An artificial harbor can have deliberately constructed breakwaters, sea walls, or jettys or they can be constructed by dredging, which requires maintenance by further periodic dredging. An example of an artificial harbor is Long Beach Harbor, California, United States, which was an array of salt marshes and tidal flats too shallow for modern merchant ships before it was first dredged in the early 20th century. In contrast, a natural harbor is surrounded on several sides by prominences of land. Examples of natural harbors include Sydney Harbour, Australia and Trincomalee Harbour in Sri Lanka.
context_section_description: Although the world's busiest port is a contested title, in 2006 the world's busiest harbor by cargo tonnage was the Port of Shanghai.
  The following are large natural harbors:
  Algeciras, Spain
  Amsterdam, Port of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Antwerp, Port of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
  Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Maryland, United States
  Botwood, Newfoundland, Canada
  Bremerhaven, Germany
  Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Busan, South Korea
  Cartagena, Colombia
  Charleston, South Carolina, United States
  Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  Port of Chittagong, Chittagong City, Bangladesh
  Dnipro, Ukraine
  Durban, South Africa
  Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
  Freetown Harbour, Sierra Leone
  Golden Horn, Istanbul, Turkey
  Gothenburg, Sweden
  Gwangyang, South Korea
  Hai Phong Port, Haiphong, Vietnam
  Haifa, Israel
  Hakodate, Japan
  Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Hamburg Harbour, Germany
  Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Virginia, United States
  Havana Harbor
  Helsinki, Finland
  Incheon, South Korea
  Izmir, Turkey
  Port of Jakarta (Tanjung Priok), Jakarta, Indonesia
  Kaliningrad, Russia
  Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
  Kerch and Port Krym to Port Kavkaz, Russia
  Kiev, Ukraine
  Kingston, Jamaica
  Kobe Harbour, Kobe, Japan
  Port of Kolkata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
  Lisbon, Portugal
  Lushunkou, Dalian, China
  Mahón, Menorca, Spain
  Manila Bay, Philippines
  Maputo, Mozambique
  Milford Haven, Wales, United Kingdom
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  Montevideo, Uruguay
  Mumbai, India
  Nassau, Bahamas
  New York Harbor, United States
  Mykolaiv, Ukraine
  Novorossiysk and Anapa, Russia
  Odessa, Ukraine
  Osaka, Japan
  Oslofjord and Oslo, Norway
  Pärnu, Estonia
  Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, United Kingdom
  Port of Portland, Casco Bay, Maine, United States
  Port of Sevastopol, Sevastopol, Crimea
  Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  Provincetown Harbor, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States
  Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara Bay, Brazil
  Rostov-on-Don, Russia
  Rotterdam, Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands
  Salvador, All Saint's Bay, Brazil
  San Antonio, Chile
  San Diego Bay, San Diego, California, United States
  Saint Petersburg, Russia
  Sochi and Adlersky City District, Russia
  Stockholm, Sweden
  Tallinn, Estonia
  Tanger-Med, Tangier, Morocco
  Tanjung Perak, Surabaya, Indonesia
  Tauranga Harbour, Tauranga, New Zealand
  Tokyo Bay, Tokyo, Japan
  Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
  Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India
  Port of Tyne, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom
  Ulsan, South Korea
  Victoria Harbour (British Columbia) & Esquimalt Harbour, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
  Vizhinjam in Trivandrum, India
  Vladivostok, Russia
  Vyborg, Russia
  Willemstad, Curaçao
  Wellington Harbour, New Zealand
  Yevpatoria, Russia
  Zaporozhe, Ukraine
caption: Valparaiso, Chile.
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