Port Harcourt is the capital and biggest city of Rivers State, Nigeria.

It lies along the Bonny River and is situated in the Niger Delta. Starting at 2016, the Port Harcourt urban zone has an expected populace of 1,865,000 tenants, up from 1,382,592 starting at 2006

The territory that wound up Port Harcourt in 1912 was previously that piece of the farmlands of the Diobu town gathering of the Ikwerre, an Igbo sub-amass The provincial organization of Nigeria made the port to trade coal from the collieries of Enugu found 243 kilometers (151 mi) north of Port Harcourt, to which it was connected by a railroad called the Eastern Line, additionally worked by the British.