Port Harcourt
Port Harcourt (Nigerian Pidgin: Po-ta-kot or Pi-ta-kwa, is a port city, capital and largest city of Rivers State in Nigeria.
Port Harcourt (Nigerian Pidgin: Po-ta-kot or Pi-ta-kwa, is a port city, capital and largest city of Rivers State in Nigeria. It is the fourth most populous city in Nigeria after Lagos, Kano and Ibadan It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the oil rich Niger Delta region. As of 2025, Port Harcourt's urban population is approximately 3,800,000. The population of the metropolitan area of Port Harcourt is almost twice its urban area population with a 2015 United Nations estimate of 2,344,000. In 1950, the population of Port Harcourt was 59,752. Port Harcourt has grown by 150,844 since 2015, which represents a 4.99% annual change.
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Worth seeing in and around Port Harcourt
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt
The Diocese of Port Harcourt ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Nigeria. The episcopal see is Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
5.7 km · diocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia - 02Yakubu Gowon Stadium
Yakubu Gowon Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in the Elekahia suburb of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Rivers United F.C., formerly Dolphins F.C. The stadium has a capacity of 16,000.
1.3 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 03Corpus Christi Cathedral
The Corpus Christi Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. It is the seat of the Bishop of Port Harcourt and serves as the headquarters of the Diocese of Port Harcourt.
4.4 km · building in Nigeria · Wikipedia - 04PAMO University of Medical Sciences
PAMO University of Medical Sciences is a private medical university located in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. The University was established in 2017 as the first private medical university in Nigeria.
8.6 km · Nigerian private university · Wikipedia - 05Catholic Institute of West Africa
The Catholic Institute of West Africa is a tertiary educational institution in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. It is a higher ecclesiastical institute of the Catholic Church and remains the leading theological facility in West Africa.
2.5 km · Religious institute in Nigeria · Wikipedia - 06Silverbird Cinema Port Harcourt
Silverbird Cinema is a movie theater in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, located at former Obi Wali Cultural Centre, Abonnema Wharf Road. It was opened in April 2009 and is owned and operated by Silverbird Group.
5.4 km · movie theater in Rivers State, Nigeria · Wikipedia - 07Government Secondary School
Government Secondary School, Eneka is a coeducational public high school in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is located within Eneka, a town in the Obio-Akpor local government area.
9.2 km · Government educational institute in Nigeria · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Borokiri Market
By the Bonny Jetty where seafood is sold.
- 02Port Harcourt Zoo
Home of the wasted horse and emaciated lion.
- 03Port Harcourt Pleasure Park
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Things to do
Carniriv Festival'. Held annually in the city, it is the oldest carnival in Nigeria and it was established in 1988. The cultural diversity and collective heritage of the local people in Rivers state is firmly rooted at the core of tourism.
- 01Bole
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Where to eat
Rice, egusi soup with eba or fufu, pounded yam, papper soup, ogbono soup. Suya is a kind of spicy meat kebab. Available at the side of any road cooked over charcoal. Wash it down with a Coke, called locally a mineral, or a bottle of the local Guinness or Maltina.
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Getting to Port Harcourt
- Airports
- Port Harcourt (PHC), 23 km · Asaba (ABB), 159 km · Akanu Ibiam (ENU), 192 km
- Stations
- Rivers Angels F.C., 1.6 km · Military Hospital, Port Harcourt, 3.4 km · Port Harcourt City Airport, 2.6 km · Isaac Boro Park, 5.1 km · Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital, 5.3 km
- Asaba → Port Harcourt161 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · ₦11,100–14,800
- Enegu → Port HarcourtTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Lagos → Port Harcourt442 km · quickest by air, 5h 20m · ₦105,840–164,200
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No local-transport research exists yet for Port Harcourt
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Port Harcourt. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Port Harcourt
Port Harcourt is 48 km from Aba, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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