Port Harcourt
Port Harcourt is a gulf city and capital of Rivers State in the Niger Delta area of South South Nigeria and is the centre for the oil industry in the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Trans Amadi.
Trans Amadi
Trans Amadi is an industrial as well as a residential district in Port Harcourt. It is one of the most popular districts in Port Harcourt as it houses some of the big multi-national companies in the nation.Photo: stone wu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sharks Stadium and Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital.
Sharks Stadium
Stadium
Sharks Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Part of the Alfred Diete-Spiff Rivers State sports complex, it is used mostly for football matches.
Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital
Hospital
Rivers State University Teaching Hospital formerly known as Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital is a government owned hospital, named after Eldred Curwen Braithwaite, a British doctor and a pioneer of surgery.
Isaac Boro Park
Park
Photo: Bomaexpress, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Isaac Boro Park is a public park and outdoor recreation area located along the Old GRA neighborhood of Rivers State capital, Port Harcourt. The park is named after Isaac Boro, who was one of the pioneers of minority rights activism in Nigeria.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old GRA and Borokiri.
Old GRA
Quarter
The Old Government Reserved Area is a neighborhood of the city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State in Nigeria. It was primarily inhabited by European settlers during colonial times and was then referred to as the European quarters.
Borokiri
Suburb
Borokiri is a neighborhood of the city of Port Harcourt situated just south of Old GRA in Rivers State, Nigeria. It lies at latitude 4.749° N and longitude 7.035° E.
Diobu
Village
Diobu is a densely populated neighborhood of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, located within the Port Harcourt metropolis.
Port Harcourt
- Type: City with 1,380,000 residents
- Description: capital of Rivers State, Nigeria
- Also known as: “Pitakwa”, “Port Harcourt Town, Port Harcourt, Nigeria”, “Port Harcourt, Nigeria”, “Port Harcourt, Rivers”, and “Port Harcourt, Rivers State”
- Neighbors: Owerri
- Categories: port city, big city, and locality
- Location: Rivers State, South South Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
4.7677° or 4° 46′ 4″ northLongitude
7.0189° or 7° 1′ 8″ eastPopulation
1,380,000Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)IATA airport code
PHCUnited Nations Location Code
NG PHCOpen location code
6FP9Q299+3GOpenStreetMap ID
node 27565065OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2324774Wikidata ID
Q217432
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Port Harcourt” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Port Harcourt”
- Arabic: “بورت هاركورت”
- Armenian: “Պորտ Հարկորտ”
- Asturian: “Port Harcourt”
- Azerbaijani: “Port-Harkort”
- Balinese: “Port Harcourt”
- Basque: “Port Harcourt”
- Belarusian: “Порт-Харкарт”
- Belarusian: “Порт-Харкорт”
- Bengali: “পোর্ট হারকোর্ট”
- Bulgarian: “Порт Харкорт”
- Bulgarian: “Порт Харкурт”
- Catalan: “Port Harcourt”
- Cebuano: “Port Harcourt”
- Central Kanuri: “Port Harcourt”
- Chechen: “Порт-Харкорт”
- Chinese: “哈科特港”
- Croatian: “Igwe Ocha”
- Croatian: “Port Harcourt”
- Czech: “Port Harcourt”
- Danish: “Port Harcourt”
- Dutch: “Port Harcourt”
- Esperanto: “Port Harcourt”
- Estonian: “Port Harcourt”
- Finnish: “Port Harcourt”
- French: “Port Harcourt”
- Galician: “Port Harcourt”
- Georgian: “პორტ-ჰარკორტი”
- German: “Port Harcourt”
- Greek: “Πορτ Χάρκορτ”
- Gujarati: “પોર્ટ હારકોર્ટ”
- Hausa: “Fatakwal”
- Hausa: “Port Harcourt”
- Hebrew: “פורט הרקורט”
- Hindi: “पोर्ट हरकोर्ट”
- Hindi: “पोर्ट हार्कोर्ट”
- Hungarian: “Port Harcourt”
- Ibibio: “Port Harcourt”
- Igbo: “Igwe Ocha”
- Igbo: “Port Harcourt”
- Igbo: “Ugwu Ọcha”
- Indonesian: “Port Harcourt”
- Irish: “Port Harcourt”
- Italian: “Port Harcourt”
- Japanese: “ポート・ハーコート”
- Japanese: “ポートハーコート”
- Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಹರ್ಕೋರ್ಟ್”
- Kirghiz: “Порт-Харкорт”
- Korean: “포트 하커트”
- Korean: “포트하커트”
- Latin: “Portus Harcurtensis”
- Latvian: “Porthārkorta”
- Lithuanian: “Port Harcourt”
- Lithuanian: “Port Harkortas”
- Macedonian: “Порт Харкурт”
- Malagasy: “Port Harcourt”
- Malay: “Port Harcourt”
- Marathi: “पोर्ट हारकोर्ट”
- Marathi: “पोर्ट हार्कोर्ट”
- Northern Frisian: “Port Harcourt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Harcourt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port Harcourt”
- Norwegian: “Port Harcourt”
- Ossetian: “Порт-Харкорт”
- Persian: “پرت هارکورت”
- Persian: “پورت هارکورت”
- Polish: “Port Harcourt”
- Portuguese: “Port Harcourt”
- Portuguese: “Porto Harcourt”
- Romanian: “Port Harcourt”
- Russian: “Порт Харкур”
- Russian: “Порт-Харкорт”
- Scots: “Port Harcourt”
- Serbian: “Порт Харкорт”
- Shona: “Port Harcourt”
- Silesian: “Port Harcourt”
- Sinhala: “පොර්ට් හාර්කොර්ට්”
- Slovenian: “Port Harcourt”
- South Azerbaijani: “پورت هارکورت”
- Spanish: “Port Harcourt”
- Swahili: “Port Harcourt”
- Swedish: “Port Harcourt”
- Tamil: “போர்ட்-ஹார்க்கோர்ட்”
- Telugu: “పోర్ట్ హర్కోర్ట్”
- Thai: “พอร์ตฮาร์คอร์ต”
- Turkish: “Port Harcourt”
- Tyap: “Pa̱takwot”
- Ukrainian: “Порт-Гаркорт”
- Ukrainian: “Порт-Харкорт”
- Urdu: “پورٹ ہارکورٹ”
- Uzbek: “Port-harkort”
- Uzbek: “Port-Harkort”
- Venetian: “Port Harcourt”
- Veps: “Port Harkort”
- Vietnamese: “Cảng Harcourt”
- Vietnamese: “Port Harcourt”
- Waray (Philippines): “Port Harcourt”
- Yoruba: “Ebute Harcourt”
- Yoruba: “Port Harcourt”
- “PH City”
- “Port Harcourt”
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