Brass, Nigeria

Brass is a Local Government Area[1] in Bayelsa State,[2] southern Nigeria.

[3] Its headquarters are in the town of Twon-Brass on Brass Island along the coast, it has a coastline of approximately 90 km on the Bight of Bonny.

[9] The state's chief slave-collecting centres (Brass and Nembe) often sent war canoes into the interior—especially through Igbo country—to capture slaves.

The activities of these oil mining companies has contributed most of the economic development of the Brass area.

About 244.95 millimeters (9.64 inches) of precipitation and 300.37 wet days (82.29% of the time) are experienced annually in Brass.