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Port Harcourt
City in Rivers State, Nigeria

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.

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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.

Get in

Getting to Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt International Airport, PHC IATA. There are two international flights operated by Qatar Airways and Lufthansa. It is a 1 hr 10 min flight if you fly in via Lagos or Abuja.

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    Port Harcourt International Airport

    By passenger volume, Port Harcourt International Airport is the country's third-busiest international airport.

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    Port Harcourt

    There are various bus stations and services available to get you into Port Harcourt.

See

Worth seeing

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    Borokiri Market

    By the Bonny Jetty where seafood is sold.

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    Port Harcourt Zoo

    Home of the wasted horse and emaciated lion.

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    Port Harcourt Pleasure Park
Do

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.

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    Bole
Eat

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.

How locals move

Getting around Port Harcourt the local way

  • Get inAgofure Motors Chisco ABC Transport Peace Mass transit From Nembe by ferry.

From Wikivoyage: Port Harcourt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: SteadyWins (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.